{"id":95761,"date":"2025-05-12T16:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T16:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/95761\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T16:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T16:24:08","slug":"power-outage-causes-travel-disruption-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/95761\/","title":{"rendered":"Power outage causes travel disruption in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><strong> London commuters are experiencing major travel disruptions after a power outage disabled sections of the city\u2019s underground network. <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trains are delayed or not running on all or some sections of the Bakerloo, Jubilee, Piccadilly and Northern lines. The Elizabeth Line, a key link to Heathrow Airport, is facing severe delays,<a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> News.Az<\/a> reports citing <a href=\"https:\/\/gulfnews.com\/world\/europe\/london-workers-hit-by-major-travel-disruption-after-power-outage-1.500124646\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gulf news.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The power is back but services will take time to return to normal, a Transport for London spokesman said, adding that the operator is working with National Grid Plc on the issue. National Grid was not immediately able to comment.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The disruption comes just weeks after Heathrow was shut down for much of March 21 when a fire knocked out the main substation supplying the airport. A Heathrow spokesman said the hub was unaffected by Monday\u2019s power failure.<\/p>\n<p>As many as 5 million journeys a day are made on the underground network.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London commuters are experiencing major travel disruptions after a power outage disabled sections of the city\u2019s underground network.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[15272,748,393,4884,257,30226,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-95761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-blackout","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-power-outage","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}