Thousands left waiting as rail delay continues

THOUSANDS of rail passengers in Britain face at least one more day of travel misery today after Network Rail again failed to complete engineering work on a key London to Scotland route.

Network Rail could be heavily fined by regulators for its overrun of the project on the West Coast Main Line in the West Midlands which should have been finished in time for business on Monday.

Blaming “a shortage of specialist engineering and contractor staff,” Network Rail was unable to reopen the West Midlands section of the line yesterday. And by early afternoon, it had to announce the work would be extended into today, although it would not comment on a report that it could be next Monday before services returned to normal.