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CrossCountry expects full service Monday after Birmingham control outage
The operator said Sunday tickets for travel on CrossCountry services will remain valid until Wednesday, after nearly all services were cancelled on Sunday.
CrossCountry said it expects to run a full service on Monday after cancelling nearly all of its UK services the day before following a power cut at its control centre, with the outage originating in Birmingham over the weekend.
The disruption spread across major routes from Glasgow to Penzance, affecting travel between Birmingham and Manchester through stops including Stoke-on-Trent, Coventry and Wolverhampton, as well as journeys such as Leeds to York and Cheltenham to Cardiff.
On Monday morning, CrossCountry reported only a handful of cancellations, attributing those to trains departing late and staff shortages, and it thanked passengers for their patience during the disruption.
The company also said tickets bought for Sunday travel will be valid for CrossCountry services until Wednesday, while the UK transport secretary Heidi Alexander said she was concerned and pointed to plans to create Great British Railways and nationalise services, including CrossCountry, next year.