Bakerloo line delays: Severe disruptions for third day in a row on Tube following fire alert at Piccadilly Circus and signal failures
The Bakerloo, Central and Circle lines have experienced severe disruptions in recent days
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Your support makes all the difference.London commuters have been experienced a third day of severe disruptions across the capital’s tube network after a fire alert at Piccadilly Circus and signal failures at Paddington caused the Bakerloo line to be partly suspended.
Severe delays have been experienced across the Bakerloo line on Wednesday after it was suspended between Queen’s Park and Elephant & Castle.
A signal failure at Earl’s Court also caused severe delays on the westbound part of the Circle line on Wednesday morning.
On Tuesday, a derailed engineering train caused hours of delays on the Central line, causing it to be part suspended westbound from Marble Arch.
Later that day a person under a train at Liverpool Street caused another section of the line to close.
On Monday there was disruption on three Tube lines during the morning rush hour.
Additional reporting by PA
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