Overview
- British Transport Police, called at 11:49am Thursday to Queenstown Road, confirmed a person died and said the case is not suspicious.
- Emergency teams closed all lines and cut power to the tracks to gain safe access, then reopened the route with cancellations and long delays persisting.
- National Rail and operators are accepting tickets on London Buses, the Tube, the Overground, the Elizabeth line, Great Western Railway, Southern and Thameslink.
- Passengers reported hot carriages when trains lost air conditioning after the power cut, and stations such as Surbiton were closed as services were thinned out.
- Separate signalling faults on other routes, including track-circuit failures in the Swanwick area and issues near New Milton, added further delays across the south.