Other impacted passengers included Gillian Potter who was supposed to be on the 13:05 service to King’s Cross, the first step on her more than 18-hour journey to Thailand.
She said: “I’m trying to be calm because actually there’s nothing I can do, is there?”
Ms Potter, whose flight leaves Heathrow at 21:00 GMT, left her home near Wetherby earlier for her eight-week trip.
She said: “It’s a bit worrying for me to get to where I’m getting, but my son’s with me and I was going to be met anyway at King’s Cross. So he’s ringing them and telling them that I won’t be on the 13:05 train.”
Meanwhile, the disruption has had a knock-on-effect at other stations, including Doncaster, where other passengers have been affected as many of the trains are scheduled to travel through Leeds.