Passengers stranded on faulty Southeastern train outside Lewisham for over three hours

Oh dear…

Passengers were stuck on a train for more than three hours after it broke down outside Lewisham station.

The Southeastern train broke down shortly before 10am today (April 5) between New Cross and Lewisham, with passengers describing the situation as “beyond frustration”.

One passenger tweeted at Southeastern: “If the line is bust can’t you assist passengers off the train? Lewisham station is literally 100 meters away. This is beyond frustrating.”

Contradictions in that report. At the top it says SE wouldn’t evacuate the train because it would have to cut power to the lines. At the end it talks about power being restored to the lines.

Power may have been lost on the line it was running on, not the adjacent ones.

Southeastern explained that would require turning off the power to every other line as well,

Just a thought