MORE than 60 trains were delayed or cancelled when points broke down at Glasgow Central.
MORE than 60 trains were delayed or cancelled when points broke down at Glasgow Central.
Thousands of travellers were hit when the failure blocked lines.
Managers were forced to cancel some services and hold back others as engineers worked to get trains running for the evening rush hour.
One commuter travelling on the Cathcart Circle as the worst delays hit said: "I had to wait 40 minutes for a train, just to make a 10-minute journey home."
A spokesman for Network Rail said there had been a "track circuit failure" shortly before 3pm yesterday and engineers resolved the worst hold-ups before peak traffic hit.
By late afternoon, five services had been cancelled and 58 had suffered delays totalling just over eight hours.
The spokesman said: "A number of lines were affected, blocking one route into the station. The delays were significant but not major."
The failure came despite last year's extensive engineering works at the station, which were part of an £85million investment programme.
