\n The railway line between Westbury and Frome has been blocked following a fault with the signalling system, leading to the cancellation of services between the two stations.\n<\/p>\n
\n GWR has confirmed that the issues have been caused by axle counters failing on the line on Friday, July 17.\n<\/p>\n
\n Disruption is expected to continue until at least 8pm and replacement transport, including taxis, has been requested.\n<\/p>\n
\n Passengers have also been advised to consider postponing their journey if possible.\n<\/p>\n
\n A spokesperson said: \u201cDue to a fault with the signalling system between Westbury and Frome the line is blocked.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cTrain services running through these stations may be cancelled.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cSome axle counters, part of the signalling system, have stopped working in the Frome area.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cAxle counters tell the signalling system if a section of track has a train on it.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIf an axle counter stops working, trains need to stop at the affected signal so that the driver can speak to the signaller to confirm if the track ahead is clear.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe are working with Network Rail to gather more information about this to understand how this will affect our services and how we can return to running our normal timetable as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The railway line between Westbury and Frome has been blocked following a fault with the signalling system, leading…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-698243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}