HUNDREDS of travellers were left stranded and waiting for replacement services following a signal fault at Nottingham railway station.
The problem occurred at the station yesterday morning and left crowds of people waiting for buses on Station Street.
Lindsey King was waiting for her brother who was coming from Heathrow Airport.
The 34-year-old from Bulwell said: "He's coming back from Heathrow – but he's just flown from Dubai. He's had a long journey and is going to be very tired and this isn't helping."
She added: "It is absolute mayhem and it's been like this for about two hours.
"I'm not sure about how they have dealt with it –- we've not spoken to many staff."
Sarah Chamberlain was also waiting for a relative.
She said: "It makes you wonder how they are going to cope when the station is shut and the kids are off school.
"We've been here about half and hour and we're just looking at every bus to see whether he is on it.
"We're not sure how much the staff know."
Trains to London, Skegness, Sheffield, Leeds and Worksop were delayed.
And services to London, Leicester, Birmingham and Newark were cancelled.
Brian Fletcher's train to Sutton Parkway was cancelled, and when the 70-year-old asked about a replacement bus, he said that none of the staff knew when it would arrive.
Mr Fletcher added: "I've been waiting about half an hour.
He added: "I'm just trying to get back. I can't get a bus from the city centre because it goes to Sutton centre and my car is at the train station, which is out of town."
One traveller, who did not want to be named, said she had been to Derby and back again just trying to get a train.
She said: "I left Loughborough this morning and I've been back and forth.
"I'm trying to get to Market Rasen but I can't."
A spokeswoman for Network Rail said the fault was rectified by 12.45pm and that engineers would be at the site over night to carry out further investigations and testing.
The spokeswoman added: "The signalling at Nottingham station is due for renewal this summer in order to help improve reliability. From July 20 until August 25, Network Rail will be working on a £100m project to completely renew the railway around the city, relaying more than a mile of track and a series of junctions, closing three signal boxes and two level crossings, and erecting more than 140 new signals."
