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You might have heard Tuesdays podcast, which came from a crowded and chaotic and

confused platform at Taunton in Somerset, waiting for a delayed train to London.

Well, there have been many of those vast disruptions since Monday when

a Tesco lorry got jammed beneath the main rail line that links Cornwall and Devon with London

and the rest of the UK. Normally, when there is a bridge strike, what happens is this.

The authorities in the shape of network rail check it before they will allow trains to run over it.

Once they are happy that it is structurally sound, they will give the go-ahead.

And there are about five of these a day, remarkably. Well on this occasion, I'm afraid, there was sustained damage.

And so, network rail tells me that the disruption, because of this,

is going to continue for the rest of the week.

There's only one train an hour between Plymouth and Exeter.

Normally there's three or four and therefore you can expect,

well, large numbers of people on the few trains that do run and slow journeys. Only travel

if your journey is essential, warns the main train operator, Great Western. I've also been trying to find out

who pays for all this, because Network Rail is going to have to hand over a large amount of

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