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Swanning around

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Swanning around

We bring you a Top 10 of some of the stranger reasons for train delays on the

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10 December, 2025

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Nobody likes a train being delayed, least of all the hard-working staff who keep our railways running from day to day. But delays do happen and are often unavoidable, and some are down to understandable safety reasons. ANDY COMFORT, who is at pains to stress that actually most of his trains run to time, selects ten different and some rather unusual reasons for delays.

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Top 10 strange reasons for delays

Nobody likes a train being delayed, least of all the hard-working staff who keep our railways running from day to day. But delays do happen and are often unavoidable, and some are down to understandable safety reasons. ANDY COMFORT, who is at pains to stress that actually most of his trains run to time, selects ten different and some rather unusual reasons for delays.

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One of the best-known names in railway photography, Colin Marsden takes up the mantle of this month’s 10 Pictures feature. The former railwayman is also a well-known author who during the last five de

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