The 15-minute interruption to power generation caused serious knock-on effects, experts say.
When two power stations disconnected from the National Grid for 15 minutes, rail travellers ended up stranded for hours.It started with a routine blip - the gas-fired power station at Little Barford in Bedfordshire shut down at 16:58 BST due to a technical issue.
He says an investigation into the causes may show that the two failures were"coincidental and unconnected", adding there have been occasions when two generators shut down independently before. Wind power is less effective as a"shock absorber" to shifts in supply and demand, according to the energy analyst.
National Grid says its automated systems kick in to stop any damage, chiefly by cutting off parts of the grid to reduce overall demand. But that is little comfort to passengers like Lawal Brown, who boarded a Thameslink train at Stevenage at 16:45. It took nearly six hours before he was evacuated onto another train and many more before he made it home.
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