LONDON POWER GRID IS NOW DOWN! Travel chaos as power cut hits London Tube travellers were stuck underground tonight after a power cut hit London. London Underground said the power failure was having a serious impact on the whole of the network. Rail services from major stations including Victoria, London Bridge and Waterloo were also affected. A Tube spokesman said: There has been a National Grid failure which has affected the underground. At the moment we are assessing the impact of that but it is having a serious impact on the whole system at the moment. He added: Its also having an effect on some of our buildings. Certainly quite a lot of the network appears to be affected. He said the failure happened around 6.15pm and there were likely to be a number of people stuck underground. He added: There will be travellers underground. I dont know the extent of that yet. Its at the end of rush hour, the peak period, so its a busy time. A spokesman for electricity network operator EDF Energy said: We have lost supplies to large parts of south London in the last few minutes as a result of a National Grid failure supply in the south London area. Its difficult to predict how long this is going to take. National Grid has got to get the circuit back. A spokesman for British Transport Police said the power cut had affected all major railway stations in south London. There is no power in a lot of stations and no trains running in the whole of south London, he said. Read more: dailymail.co.uk/news/article-194118/Travel-chaos-power-cut-hits-London.html#ixzz2kIdXc3xQ
Posted on: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 21:02:14 +0000
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