{"id":740109,"date":"2026-08-16T20:08:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T20:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/740109\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T20:08:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T20:08:23","slug":"national-rail-warns-of-major-disruption-to-train-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/740109\/","title":{"rendered":"National Rail warns of &#8216;major disruption&#8217; to train services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Major disruption to multiple rail services across the country is expected throughout the day due to damage to overhead wires.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">National Rail said trains have come to a halt due to issues with electric cables at Arlesey, Bedfordshire on the section of track between between Peterborough and Stevenage. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As result, lines are blocked and trains may be severely delayed or cancelled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The incident will affect passengers travelling on services provided by Grand Central, Great Northern, Hull Trains, LNER, Lumo, and Thameslink, including those travelling as far afield as Edinburgh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Major disruption to multiple rail services across the country is expected throughout the day due to damage to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-740109","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\/740109","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=740109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}