I wanted to get in early today so I left almost three hours in advance, but the tubes completely collapsed on me. First the Jubilee and Met line stopped, so I had to reroute to another station, and now the Piccadilly line is crawling because of a trespasser at Russell Square. So instead of being early, I’m now running late and had to message my boss, who’s definitely not going to be thrilled.

Honestly, I hate the London Underground sometimes, but to be fair, I should have checked the status properly before travelling. I always tell everyone else to check, and now it’s come back to bite me. Anyway, I’m finally on the Piccadilly line, about 30 minutes away, and seriously not looking forward to that walk into work.

by Motizar

34 comments

  1. Signalling issues between Wembley Stadium and South Ruislip, it’s a bit of a mess.

  4. Sorry to hear its been a bit of a nightmare out there today, what time was that pic taken if you don’t mind me asking?

  5. this looks like a recoloured image from a bleak from a WW2 documentary

  6. As someone who lives in SE London with National Rail and no tube, this is what I always bring up when people ask how I deal with no tube.

    When stuff goes wrong on the tube shit goes nuclear. Where I am, if one line goes down there’s nearly always another option.

  7. “Hate London Underground” lol… you people have no concept of what a bad metro system is. The TfL moves millions of people a day, mostly without incident. Public transportation in London is incredible, tired of you moaning melts who live in a bubble and don’t know how good we have it

  8. Uggghhh…travelling to Farringdon via the Met was a nightmare this morning, but I thought he it would have calmed down.

    I’ll go home via the Bakerloo tonight, to be safe – thanks for the helpful warning!

  9. Tbf that just looks like the standard chaos after an England football match finishes…

  10. The only time I’ve ever heard anything of note about Wembley Park station is when the jubilee line lady says “THIS train terminates at… WEMBLEY. PARK.”

    But that looks so crammed they’ll have to call an emergency evacuation at some point. I’ve been in that situation once in Acton Town.

  12. The trains and tube service here is beyond a joke. Literally seems to be an issue daily. Fucking hate London sometimes and love it another time.

  14. Ask me again why I won’t give up my car for this

  17. Some people won’t agree with me on this, but I don’t rate a London area based on whether it has a train station nearby, but two.

  20. Northern line was absolutely rammed at 12pm; the entire platform at Bank was basically full

  21. Wembley Park is always like that on a match day to be fair.

  22. Jesus Christ. I would just take an uber or walk.

    And yes severe delays on the jubilee line due to an ANIMAL. 🤦‍♂️

  23. This is a banging photo – portfolio worthy if you switch it to monochrome and dramtise the lighting in the sky a little

  24. This photo for some reason perfectly incapsulates modern Britain …

    Not saying it’s a negative or positive but it’s just something

  25. Commute was SHIT today. 3 and a half hours for a usual hour journey.
    Chiltern Railway signalling issues caused carnage.
    I will say though I was very proud of my cheat code.
    Train pulled into West Ruislip and the driver gives it ‘Train terminates here’ so everyone gets off the train on the platform (looks like the picture above) and im at the WRONG end of the platform looking down and thinking its going to take me an hour for all these people to get through that overpass from this end. Then it strikes me……trains empty. I pop back into the train leaving the absolute carnage platform and use the train like one of those passageways that run next to tunnels and literally walk the entire length of the platform, get out at the last door and up the stairway.

    I was ultimately very pleased with myself. Got to the tube platform. No tube for 10 minutes. Bollocks. Made no difference anyway.

    Love you Londoners.
    We are in this together x

  26. Hence, I would never never ever watch Starlight Express the Musical. Huhuhu

  28. Wembley Park looked like the prequel to a disaster film today. On my commute a bloke in a full inflatable T-rex tried to board the Jubilee, got half-swallowed by the doors, and re-emerged as a sad bin liner with tiny arms. The best bit? A man produced a folding ladder, climbed it, and crowd-surfed down the platform to beat the queue like a budget Moses parting the Red Sea, only to get off at Neasden because he panicked. Crazy scenes doesn’t cover it.

  30. I got to the station just as it happened. Fortunately I was able to do my journey and return pretty painlessly.

    That looks dreadful though 😕

  32. Tfl has been an even bigger joke for the past year, than ever before.

  34. Jubilee was a mess yesterday too. It’s my commute line and I’d say it’s fairly reliable, but when something goes wrong, it’s catastrophic.

Comments are closed.