Not what you want to see first thing in the morning – unless you’re looking for an excuse to be late It’s looking pretty chaotic on the trains and Tubes this morning with half of London expected to be late for work. The Circle Line was suspended while the District, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan Lines were all part suspended. Freshers flout rule of six to party on last night of freedom before curfew hits Meanwhile people are being told not to get into London via Waterloo – one of the UK’s busiest railway problems. The problems on the Circle, District and Hammersmith & City lines are being caused by late finishing engineering works. The Metropolitan Line is affected by a signal systems failure. London Waterloo is suffering from a huge signals failure.

South West Trains said services across the whole of its network, including to and from London Waterloo, may be cancelled, delayed by up to 90 minutes or revised.

Disruption is expected until the end of the day.

On the Circle Line there’s no service clockwise between Edgware Road and Algdgate via Embankment.

There are severe delays anti-clockwise.


There are problems on the Circle and District lines as well as a huge signal failure at London Waterloo (Photo by Yunus Kaymaz/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

On the District Line there is no service from Parsons Green to Edgware Road and South Kensington and West Kensington to South Kensington.

That is having a knock-on effect, causing severe delays to the rest of the line and minor delays on the Hammersmith and City Lines.



A message to passengers heading to Waterloo said: ‘Our control room has confirmed that we have lost all signalling in the Earlsfield area and are not able to run trains into London Waterloo.

‘Due to the location, this has taken place our ability to run a train service this morning has been severely hampered.

‘Our engineers are on site and are working hard to restore the signalling so we are able to run trains.

‘We strongly advise you not to travel towards London Waterloo. If you do travel, please consider alternative arrangements and use other train operating companies.

‘A queueing system may be implemented at your local station to help us get you to where you need to go safely.

‘Some trains that commenced their journeys before this incident occurred, may be altered or revised at short notice. Some trains may also be diverted via an alternative route.’

SWT had already warned of disruption because of a track defect on a set of points between Woking and Surbiton, which blocked the London-bound fast line.

The disruption comes just weeks before the start of major work to extend platforms at Waterloo, which will lead to three weeks of delays.

Stagecoach has lost the franchise to run SWT, with a consortium of the First Group and Hong Kong based MTR taking over next month.

TfL said that tickets are being accepted ‘via any reasonable route’. Mark Wild, Managing Director of London Underground, said: ‘I’m extremely sorry for the delays that Circle and District line customers are experiencing today. ‘This has been caused by a late finish to engineering works to improve the track at Earl’s Court, which means we have been unable to run a full service. We are working hard to get services back to normal as quickly as possible. ‘We will try to automatically refund those delayed but otherwise people should use their online Oyster account or call the contact centre.’