AFC Fylde's National League game against Southend is postponed after a train carrying the visitors suffers a power failure en route.
The train operator Avanti West Coast could not guarantee Southend would arrive in time to play the game at Flyde's Mill Farm stadium
an "evacuation train" was being organised by Avanti West Coast but would take the Southend squad and staff back to London.
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