Trains across all of Wiltshire and beyond have been cancelled after a major outage on the railway lines.
Great Western Railway (GWR) has confirmed trains will be cancelled or delayed across its entire network on Tuesday, May 19, following a nationwide communications outage within the railway control network.
Trains have continued to run despite the outage, but are reliant on signals only and therefore have to run at a reduced speed, causing disruption to all services.
GWR warned that this disruption is likely to continue on all routes until around 3pm.
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A GWR spokesperson said: “Due to a fault with the signalling system trains have to run at reduced speed.
“Train services running across the whole Great Western Railway network may be cancelled or delayed.
“We have had a nationwide communications outage within the railway control network.
“Trains can continue to run but with speed limitations based on signals only.
“We are working with Network Rail to implement a solution and bring the control system back online.”
In the meantime, GWR has advised travellers to use other rail companies or local public transport operators or consider postponing their journeys until disruption has ended.
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