Power outage causes major rail disruption across the Midlands – how Derbyshire and Chesterfield services are affected

A number of railway services across the Midlands, including Derbyshire, are affected by delays and cancellations this afternoon (Thursday, August 6).

This is due to a ‘failure of the electricity supply at a communication centre’ in the Greater Manchester area.

A number of Chesterfield services have been delayed or cancelled including trains travelling to Liverpool, Manchester and Carisle.

Delays have also been reported across Peak District railway stations including Edale, Hope, Bamford and Grindleford.

National Rail has reported that the ‘major’ disruption across the Midlands, North West and the Greater Manchester is expected to continue until the end of the day.

The following railway providers are affected: Avanti West Coast, CrossCountry, East Midlands Railway, London Northwestern Railway, Northern, TransPennine Express and Transport for Wales.

Passengers are asked to check if their services are affected before travelling – with affected railway companies sharing advice for customers affected.

East Midlands Railway has issued the following statement: “There is a failure of the electricity supply around the Manchester Piccadilly area. This is currently disrupting our trains on the Liverpool Lime Street/ Nottingham/ Norwich routes.

"Network Rail are on site investigating the problem.

"We expect this disruption to last until the end of the day.”

Avanti West Coast said that tickets for cancelled trains are valid for the two previous trains and the one following the cancelled booking – and a full refund can be requested.

TransPennine Express passengers affected by cancellations and delays, can use their ictkets are valid on Bee Network services and some CrossCountry, LNER, Metrolink and Northern services.

Northern warned that their services were not able to run on a number of routes with train tickets accepted on Bee Network services.