TRAVEL disruption has been affecting drivers around Bradford this evening with power cuts also hitting rail travellers across the region and at London King's Cross station.

A large power cut caused "apocalyptic" rush-hour scenes across England and Wales, with traffic lights down and trains coming to a standstill.

Nearly a million electricity customers faced blackouts late on Friday afternoon after what the National Grid Electricity System Operator said were issues with two generators, which were now resolved.

A spokeswoman for Northern Powergrid, which serves Yorkshire and the North East, said 110,000 of its customers lost power.

She said the problem was with the National Grid's transmission network, which distributes high voltage energy from power stations across the UK.

Those affected lost power between around 5.10pm and 6pm.

The power cuts were "quite spread apart, (which is) quite unusual", the spokeswoman said.

Motorists were affected by an outage of traffic lights in Bradford, a problems which also hit Leeds and other areas.

Several sets of lights in and around Bradford centre were inoperative for the rush hour.

One driver said the lights were out earlier at the junction of Killinghall Road and Leeds Road, another set on Hall Ings and a third set on Thornton Road at the junction outside the Odeon.

The failures were reported to the relevant department and traffic seems to have got back to normal.

A power cut also affected 40 premises in the BD12 area at about 5pm.

Northern Powergrid said its engineers were working on the outage and it hope to have restored power by 8.45pm.

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Meanwhile in London as power cut at King's Cross station was affecting service on the East Coast Mainline to Yorkshire.

London North Eastern Railway tweeted that due to a major power failure they were unable to get any trains into Kings Cross this evening. As such, LNER services in and out of the station were suspended.

National Rail said that LNER and Hull Trains were advising customers not to travel from London King's Cross until further notice. Customers holding tickets for today, Friday, August 9, may use their tickets tomorrow Saturday, August 10.

The station was closed to customers due avoid any overcrowding.

Traveller Zoe Hebblethwaite, from Pontefract, described the situation outside Kings Cross station as "absolute mayhem" after the transport hub was closed due to the power issues.

The 23-year-old had been stuck for almost two hours when she spoke to PA, having arrived at the station at 5.30pm before being told to leave until further notice.

"They have closed doors of the station - no power whatsoever," she said.

"Outside Kings Cross Station is absolute mayhem nobody knows anything nobody can find an assistant to speak to at this point.

"No commuters are allowed in... There is so much confusion."

The legal secretary said she had no other means of reaching the London North Eastern Railway and she is waiting to see if the problem will be resolved by the end of Friday night.

Grand Central announced because of the failure of the electricity supply, the 15.30 Sunderland to King's Cross service was terminating at York. Grand Central tickets will be accepted on the next available LNER service towards King's Cross.

They added that multiple operators were cancelling trains in and out of London Terminals, with some stations closed to passengers and some being exit only. As a result, they were advising passengers not to travel this evening.

They apologised for the disruption.

The Department for Transport tweeted: "Today's power outage has had knock on impacts on travel. We're working hard with @networkrail and others to ensure systems are up and running as quickly as possible, so that everyone can complete their journeys safely."

A Government spokesman said the issue is "now resolved".

The Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy said: "We are in contact with National Grid and Energy Distribution Networks. The issue is now resolved and the system has returned to normal."