London, UK - March 4, 2024: A London Underground train with the doors open waiting at a station and passengers on board.
Signal failures, faulty tracks and cancellations are behind the holdups today (Picture: Getty Images)

Five London Underground lines as well as the Overground are experiencing delays, suspensions and reduced services.

Just in time for the Friday morning commute, of course. There’s no service at all on the Circle line as engineers tinker with a signal failure at Whitechapel. Key commuter lines the District and Hammersmith & City line are seeing severe delays – True Tube Status, a motoring app, says journeys on both lines are about 34% longer than normal.

Minor delays, meanwhile, are riddling the Bakerloo and Central Lines.

The Overground is held up between Willesden Junction and Clapham Junction due to a faulty track on top of reduced service by Barkignside earlier this morning.

There are minor delays on the Metropolitan line ‘between Moor Park and Watford due to train cancellations’, but TfL says the cancellations have since eased up. Monitoring services, however, say journeys will still be longer.


Severe and minor delays riddle Bakerloo line amid train shortage

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.

London Victoria hit hard by delays and diversions


LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - 2024/03/16: Passengers waiting on the platform at Victoria underground station amid delays on Circle and District lines. (Photo by Steve Taylor/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Commuters are advised to take the London Underground if they can (Picture: Steve Taylor/Getty)

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.

Lorry fire closes major A-road

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.

Two more London Underground lines are delayed

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.’

Severe delays on the M25

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’.

Traffic Scotland reveals major road closure

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.

Are there Tube delays today?

The short answer is yes.


Tube delays 08.11
(Picture: TfL)

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%.


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