UK-wide power cut: Major outage affected trains, airports and traffic signals
A major power outage has caused chaos to transportation across the United Kingdom.
Airports, trains, tube lines, local subway stations and traffic signals were affected by the unprecedented outage.
U.K. Power Networks said there are aware of a power cut affecting large parts of London and South East.
They believed the cause to be due to a failure on National Grid's network.
Due to a large scale National Grid failure there is a power cut in the London and South East areas, meaning that some traffic lights are down. Please be very cautious on the roads!
— TfL Traffic News (@TfLTrafficNews) August 9, 2019
26,000 homes in parts of north west England, near Liverpool, and 100,000 homes in the north east, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne were were without power. There was also reported disruption to transport networks.
Power failures bring reported across parts of the UK
Maps show current and past day cuts#powercut
BBC:
Power operators for the South East, Midlands, South West and Wales report cuts.
UK Power Networks said it believed it was due to a "failure on National Grid's network". pic.twitter.com/MnlYHP2n6j— Ben Brownlee (@ben_brownlee) August 9, 2019
Parts of Scotland were also affected with news outlets reporting that traffic signals across the city of Glasgow not working.
At least 30 sets of traffic lights are out across #Glasgow after a number of power spikes caused by the bad weather.@GlasgowCC say all lights will be attended and switched back on as soon as possible once the weather allows.
Be careful when approaching dark traffic signals. pic.twitter.com/Rs1mc3DxPX— Radio Clyde News (@RadioClydeNews) August 9, 2019
The power outage happened during the Friday evening rush-hour commute. Police officers were at underground stations calming down infuriated commuters.
