Person hit by train leads to major delays for Glastonbury travellers – live updates

He also meets the 88-year-old founder of the festival, Sir Michael Eavis.

John told Eavis, “I think it is serendipity that I’m here because (it’s) the last show I’ll ever do probably in Britain, and it couldn’t be better, and you’ve been amazing. All my guys said this is so great.”

Eavis replied: “We’ve waited for years for this.”

Our critic James Hall took some photos of around 450 joggers, who call themselves Ravers 2 Runners, as they made their way around the Glastonbury festival site.

“Each to their own, they’re having an absolute ball,” he says. “Personally, I’m keeping it old-school… I’m off to have a wood-fired sauna in an ancient caravan in the old travellers’ field.”

Great Western Railway (GWR) said earlier that all lines were blocked at West Ealing, in the west of the capital, due to “the emergency services dealing with an incident near the railway”.

That was affecting services to and from London Paddington, which is on the route serving Castle Cary in Somerset, the nearest station to Glastonbury Festival.

A spokesperson for the train operator confirmed to The Independent that lines have now reopened.

”Trains are now moving into and out of Paddington, including those serving Glastonbury festival, but there will be some residual delays due to misplaced trains and crew,” they added.

My brilliant colleague Ben Parker reports:

Our intrepid team of reporters and critics are on site at Glastonbury Festival, with writer Adam White sending over a picture of some ominous-looking clouds looming over Worthy Farm.

“The rain has started!” he tells me, but is reassured as I point out the Met Office says it should* brighten up this afternoon.

Glastonbury organisers have unveiled the full set times across each of its stages for this year’s festival, revealing that rapper Little Simz will perform before Coldplay on the Pyramid Stage on Saturday, while LCD Soundsystem will play ahead of Dua Lipa’s Friday slot.

Hundreds of other artists will perform across the week, with the set times allowing fans to work out whether they’ll have time to dash from one stage to another in order to see their favourites.

There are also a few spots reserved for surprise acts, including the “TBA” marked at 6pm on Saturday at the Woodsies stage. Previous surprise artists at Glastonbury have included The Killers, Radiohead and the Foo Fighters.

Here are the set times for the main stages across Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Music fans travelling to Glastonbury Festival by train on Thursday could face disruption.

Great Western Railway (GWR) said all lines are blocked at West Ealing in west London due to “the emergency services dealing with an incident near the railway”.

That is affecting services to and from London Paddington, which is on the route serving Castle Cary, the nearest station to Glastonbury Festival.

Passengers are being warned to expect disruption until midday.

GWR said earlier this month that it planned to provide more than 28,600 seats on trains from London Paddington to Castle Cary between Wednesday and Friday for festivalgoers.

It warned that early and mid-morning trains on Wednesday and Thursday were almost fully booked.

James Wilson successfully proposed to Maria Lawrence as they attended day one of Glastonbury Festival 2024 at Worthy Farm, Pilton on 26 June 2024.