Rail chiefs are facing demands for an urgent investigation into the nightmare journeys suffered by thousands of passengers trapped for about four hours on trains in west London.
Seven trains four Elizabeth line, two Heathrow Express and a Great Western Railway intercity service were stranded when the GWR train crashed into broken power lines near Ladbroke Grove at about 6.30pm on Thursday night. Passengers on the packed Elizabeth line trains, including families heading into central London for Christmas shows, travellers who had landed at Heathrow and TV presenter Rachel Riley, were eventually led along the tracks to safety at about 10.30pm. They had been left in the cold and dark for hours as the on-board power failed, with the driver of one east-bound train telling passengers he could not get through to the control centre.
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