Well there’s a surprise. The meticulously-planned works that have kept Liverpool Street station closed since 23rd December have over-run. The bridge they were removing has gone, and the scheduled upgrades to a handful of stations have been completed, but now they have problems with the overhead lines, and the station is stranded, cut off from the rest of the network.

Advice from the rail company is not to travel until they’ve got it fixed, which is now not expected to happen until tomorrow afternoon at the earliest. Advice from commuter groups is to demand a refund. This is doubly embarrassing coming on the day the rail companies rolled out price increases of up to 11% – twice the rate of inflation – across the national network.

So it’s a day of working from home, which is far from ideal after two weeks off. Let’s hope tomorrow’s predicted snow and negative temperatures don’t delay the fixes any longer.

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