Commuters heading into the capital faced chaos this morning after a train came off the rails near Wimbledon.
A South Western Railways - formerly South West Trains - commuter service from Basingstoke belonging to partially derailed as it left Wimbledon station at low speed just before 6am, the BBC reports.
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