Overview
- A tree fell near Stansted Mountfitchet on Saturday, damaging overhead electric wires and prompting Stansted Express to tell customers not to travel between Broxbourne and Stansted Airport.
- Greater Anglia has advised passengers not to travel on affected routes after the same incident caused extensive damage to overhead lines and led to hundreds of cancellations across east‑of‑England services.
- Network Rail engineers remain on site working to restore the overhead electrification and operators are running limited shuttle services, replacement buses or taxis and accepting alternative tickets where possible.
- Other operators across southern and regional Britain reported speed restrictions, altered timetables and truncated long‑distance services to Devon and Cornwall with replacement coaches running on several routes.
- Communities have also faced storm power cuts with National Grid restoring many supplies while several thousand remain off, and passengers are urged to check operators' JourneyCheck updates before travelling.