Six major rail routes into King's Cross station have been blocked for the past 24 hours – and disruption is expected to continue.

A broken rail at Hatfield, Hertfordshire, has affected trains starting and terminating at King’s Cross station since around 1.30pm yesterday afternoon (September 2).

National Rail has confirmed that disruption is now expected to continue until the end of today – with services planned to run as normal from 7am tomorrow.

Trains between Peterborough and King’s Cross may be delayed by up to 30 minutes.

Where possible, services are being diverted onto the line that runs through Hatfield North.  

Passengers have been warned that work to fix the defective rail will take “a considerable amount of time”.

Repair work began last night – but will also take place tonight as well, forcing the affected line to remain closed throughout the day.

The routes impacted are:

  • Grand Central between Sunderland / Bradford Interchange and London Kings Cross
  • Hull Trains between Beverley / Hull and London Kings Cross
  • LNER between Edinburgh / Newcastle / York / Leeds and London Kings Cross
  • Lumo between Edinburgh and London Kings Cross
  • Great Northern between London Kings Cross and Cambridge, and also between Moorgate and Welwyn Garden City / Stevenage
  • Thameslink between Brighton and Cambridge, and also between London Kings Cross and Peterborough

National Rail has warned that the following changes will take place:

  • Trains from Welwyn Garden City towards Moorgate will run non-stop from Hatfield to New Barnet, to reduce congestion - trains will generally serve all stations in the opposite direction
  • Trains between Kings Lynn / Ely and London Kings Cross may divert onto another route between Stevenage and London Kings Cross, taking around 10 to 20 minutes longer than usual
  • Peak-time trains between Peterborough and London Kings Cross will be cancelled (Horsham services will still run)
  • Peak-time trains between Welwyn Garden City and Sevenoaks will not run on the part of the route between Welwyn Garden City and London Blackfriars