For a long time, leaves on the line was the best excuse rail bosses could come up with.
But now it's emerged that passengers have had to confront a new impediment: a signalman getting stuck in the toilet.
Travellers found themselves inconvenienced after contact was lost with the signal box at Henwick in Worcester, on the Hereford main line.
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