Standing at HN28 signal wrote:
On 15 Jul, 21:17, Roland Perry wrote:
In message . com, at
11:38:07 on Sun, 15 Jul 2007, CJB remarked:

Most trains delayed by hours or cancelled to/from Paddington and
points west of Slough. FGW services in complete disarray. Been going
on on most of Sunday afternoon, evening.

Must have missed that: I departed Reading at 14.33 - the train was
nearly 10 minutes early arriving from Paddington.

Sounds like cable theft again to me! THere was some major problems at
Barnes a few weeks back for the same reason. I suppose on a Sunday
there are more hi-vis wearing bods about so they wouldn't look so
suspicous. I mean generally a signal failure or signalling problems
wouldnt amount to this level of disruption would it?

Might well have been weather related. There was an almighty thunderstorm,
with torrential rain, that passed across the area and up through the
Chilterns and across towards Milton Keynes and Bedford at around
16:30-17:00. Could well have been the result of a lightning strike.