London Tubes hit by severe delays with one line completely suspended

There are minor delays all along the Bakerloo line right now as there simply aren’t enough trains, apparently.

But now a massive stretch of the line between south London’s Elephant and Castle and Queen’s Park in the north west is experiencing severe delays.

All Southeastern services to and from London Victoria are now subject to delays and revisions.

Some trains may wind up in different London stations altogether as engineers fix a signal fault at Victoria, ‘reducing the capacity to run train services from the station’, National Rail says.

Diversions include:

• Some services between Orpington and London Victoria will be diverted to/from London Blackfriars.
• Services between Gravesend and London Victoria will be diverted to/from London Cannon Street.

Southeastern expects this chaos to last until 10am, advising riders to hop on the Tube if they can instead as their tickets will be accepted.

A lorry is on fire on a major A-road, forcing police to close it both ways.

The A5 is shut in both directions between the M6 Toll at the Great Wyrley junction and the B4154 for Norton Canes.

Traffic should return to normal by 11.45am.

TfL has just issued status updates for the Central and Bakerloo lines:

‘Central line: Minor delays between Leytonstone and White City westbound due to a points failure at Leytonstone.

‘Bakerloo line: Minor delays due to a shortage of trains.’

A string of ‘unconfirmed roadworks’ are taking place on the M25 today, according to Traffic England, causing severe delays.

This is mainly impacting journeys on the motorway anticlockwise between junctions J10 and J9 and anticlockwise between junctions J25 and J23.

…And maybe get used to it. Officials warn to expect long trips around J10 and J9 until ‘11.59pm on May 31, 2025’ and between J25 and J23 until ‘5am on March 31, 2025’.

The agency says the A92 Tay Road Bridge, which connects Dubdee with Newport-on-Tay, is closed southbound due to a police incident.

‘Expect delays,’ Traffic Scotland adds.

The short answer is yes.

The Circle line is fully down because of a signal failure in Whitechapel.

Two separate signal failures are also behind severe delays and part suspensions riddling the District and Hammersmith and City lines, between West Ham and Embankment and Liverpool Street and Barking respectively.

Speaking of severe delays, the Overground is clogged up between Willesden Junction and Clapham Junction due to a faulty rail at Kensington Olympia.

While there’s good service on the rest of the lines, True Tube Status, a monitoring service, says that users are reporting minor delays on the Central, Metropolitan and Piccadilly lines of roughly 20%.