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<\/p>\nCommuters at London Euston have been left stranded as a points failure halts all lines between Watford Junction and Milton Keynes Central – this is a breaking news story<\/p>\n
08:16, 16 Feb 2026Updated 12:39, 16 Feb 2026<\/p>\n
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Passengers are warned to expect delays(Image: PA)<\/p>\n
Chaos has erupted this morning as travellers at a major UK station find themselves stranded. Services at London Euston have been blocked after all lines between Watford Junction and Milton Keynes Central ground to a complete standstill.<\/p>\n
The points failure is wreaking havoc on routes to several crucial stations including Liverpool Lime Street and Birmingham New Street. In a social media post, National Rail said delays between Milton Keynes Central and Watford Junction are expected until 9pm.<\/p>\n
In an update at 5:21am, London Northwestern Railway confirmed a points failure between Tring and Watford. Several routes are expected to be delayed, cancelled or revised. These includes trains to Wolverhampton, Liverpool Lime Street, Birmingham New Street and Crewe.<\/p>\n
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The failure has affected many key routes(Image: AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n
It said “services may be cancelled or delayed” going into and out of Euston and added that tickets for Overground services between Watford Junction and Euston would be accepted.<\/p>\n
Despite warning of disruption until 9pm on social media, the National Rail website still says delays are expected until 12pm.<\/p>\n
In an update, it said: “A points failure at between Watford Junction and Milton Keynes Central means that some lines are blocked. As a result trains running between these stations may be cancelled or revised.<\/p>\n
“Disruption is expected until [12pm].”<\/p>\n
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London Northwestern Railway confirmed a points failure between Tring and Watford (stock)(Image: @Cllr Ian Stotesbury)<\/p>\n
Full list of the affected routes:<\/p>\n
Avanti West Coast between London Euston and the following stations:<\/p>\n
London Northwestern Railway between London Euston and the following stations:<\/p>\n
UPDATE: <\/strong>The disruption caused by a points failure has now come to an end, according to an update from National Rail.<\/p>\n “Disruption caused by a points failure between Watford Junction and Milton Keynes Central has now ended,” National Rail said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Commuters at London Euston have been left stranded as a points failure halts all lines between Watford Junction…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,1500,748,393,600,4884,257,225084,1470,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-768382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-facebook","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-london","15":"tag-train-incidents","16":"tag-twitter","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116080772923049860","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}