The Elizabeth, Bakerloo, Jubilee and Northern lines were all disrupted on Monday afternoon after a fault on the National Grid’s transmission network.
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00:00this is all getting rather familiar travel chaos in london on monday the elizabeth line bakerloo jubilee and northern lines were all suspended
00:13stations which had no connection to these lines also closed for a fairly significant amount of time much to the annoyance of commuters
00:24south kensington shut holborn station closed and so did piccadilly circus i myself had to travel along the piccadilly line on monday evening and even though services were running the number of stations open was inconsistent at best
00:43transport for london blames the disruption on a power outage a quote-unquote cable fault caused this power outage and this subsequently led to a fire
00:56on monday at a substation in maida vale where three meters of high voltage cable were destroyed this comes weeks after another fire at that same substation which saw people evacuated from their homes
01:14it also comes less than two months after another substation fire in hayes in west london which led to severe power outages
01:24and heathrow airport's closure the cause of that fire remains unexplained i spoke to a number of people who live and work locally to this part of london
01:35their comments suggest they did witness brief power cuts at home and at work