(Image: NORTHERN POWERGRID)
Around 800 homes have been left without electricity in Darlington this morning (Thursday, October 22), with dozens of postcodes affected by a major power cut.
Northern Powergrid has confirmed that properties across parts of the town are experiencing an outage, with engineers working to restore supplies as quickly as possible.
Power lines (Image: PA MEDIA)
The electricity distributor has estimated that power could be restored by 11.30am, although this remains subject to change.
Northern Powergrid said its teams were attempting to reroute electricity supplies to get homes back online.
A spokesperson said: "Our team are trying to get the power back on quickly by switching electricity through alternative routes on our network."
The full list of Darlington postcodes affected by the power cut is:
- DL3 6AN
- DL3 6NL
- DL3 6AU
- DL3 6BB
- DL3 6ND
- DL3 6AJ
- DL3 6NE
- DL3 6NG
- DL3 6AY
- DL3 6AZ
- DL3 6NB
- DL3 6AB
- DL3 6LZ
- DL3 6AA
- DL3 6AT
- DL3 6AX
- DL3 6NQ
- DL3 6NJ
- DL3 6AR
- DL3 6BA
- DL3 6AL
- DL3 6BP
- DL3 6AE
- DL3 6NH
- DL3 6AD
- DL3 6NF
- DL3 6NA
- DL3 6AS
- DL3 6NT
- DL3 6NW
- DL3 6EP
- DL3 6ES
- DL3 6NS
- DL3 6NU
- DL3 6NX
- DL3 6NN
- DL3 6PA
- DL3 6ER
Residents in the affected areas are being advised to monitor Northern Powergrid's updates for the latest information on when their electricity supplies are expected to return.
The cause of the outage has not yet been confirmed.
For the latest updates on the Darlington power cut, follow our live blog.