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Passengers promised new and improved train services with the introduction of a fresh timetable endured a series of delays.
Embarrassingly for rail infrastructure company Network Rail (NR), one of the problems was on the London to Scotland West Coast Main Line where a £9 billion upgrade has just been completed.
And on the other main London to Scotland route - the East Coast Main Line - passengers were stranded for up to six hours overnight after power cables came down.
Signals problems, late-running weekend engineering work and train breakdowns also contributed to passengers' problems.
This weekend NR had trumpeted the arrival of the new timetable and the completion of the West Coast work, with the company's chief executive Iain Coucher saying it was probably the biggest change to the national rail timetable since the industry moved from the age of steam to that of diesel and electric power.
He added that passengers on the West Coast line would enjoy much faster, more frequent services with 60,000 extra seats per day available on more than 1,000 extra weekly services.
An NR spokesman said: "We have had a few glitches here and there but overall the performance has been OK.
"We have run (by around mid-morning) about 86% of trains on time and hope to improve this figure as the day goes on."
Rail users on some of the busiest commuter routes in the country also suffered delays, including the Portsmouth to London Waterloo line as well as Southern services into London Victoria.
Shadow transport secretary Theresa Villiers said: "It is ironic that Network Rail's announcement celebrating the completion of the West Coast mainline upgrade was being read by passengers stuck on trains as the system stumbled at the first hurdle."
