Power failures cause disruption on London Tube
The Bakerloo line was completely suspended as of 1715 local time (1615 GMT), while other services including the Jubilee, Elizabeth and Piccadilly lines were facing severe or minor delays following a power outage more than two hours earlier.
Transport for London (TfL) said it was working to get the whole network back to normal service as quickly as possible.
"Due to a brief interruption of the power supply to our network, several lines lost power for a short period earlier this afternoon," TfL Chief Operating Officer Claire Mann said in a statement.
Britain's National Grid confirmed that a fault on its transmission network had caused a power failure.
"The fault was resolved within seconds and did not interrupt supply from our network, but a consequent voltage dip may have briefly affected power supplies on the low voltage distribution network in the area," a spokesperson said.
The incident also caused a small contained fire which was brought under control, National Grid said.
The potential for power failures to cause major disruption came into sharp focus in March when London's Heathrow Airport was forced to shut for 18 hours due to a fire at a nearby electrical substation, stranding hundreds of thousands of air travellers.
Transport trade union TSSA called for an inquiry into the incident to ensure a similar power outage does not happen again.
"Safety for all is key at this moment, but in due course we will need a proper inquiry into what happened and the lessons to be learned," TSSA General Secretary Maryam Eslamdoust said.
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Sharjah 24
17 hours ago
- Sharjah 24
One killed, dozens injured, as quake hits western Turkey
The quake was felt across several cities in the west of the country, including Istanbul and the tourist hotspot of Izmir. "An 81-year-old person died soon after having been rescued from under the rubble," Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya told journalists at Sindirgi, the epicentre of the quake. Another 29 people had been injured, but not seriously, he added. The quake collapsed 16 buildings in Sindirgi and its surroundings, of which four were inhabited, including a three-storey building in the city centre, he said. Several people were pulled alive from the rubble of the three-storey building, where six people were living. The person who died had also been buried under the rubble there before being freed. Earlier, Mayor Serkan Sak had told Turkish private channel NTV: "Four were rescued from the rubble." Efforts to extract two others were ongoing, he added. Some 319 first responders were deployed to the affected zone, AFAD said. The quake hit at 7:53 pm (1653 GMT), with some 20 aftershocks ranging from 3.5 to 4.6 magnitude, according to AFAD. Turkey is crisscrossed by several geological fault lines which have previously caused catastrophes in the country. A quake in February 2023 in the southwest killed at least 53,000 people and devastated Antakya, site of the ancient city of Antioch. At the beginning of July, a 5.8-magnitude tremor in the same region resulted in one death and injured 69 people.
Al Etihad
5 days ago
- Al Etihad
UK's Birmingham Airport temporarily shuts after plane's landing gear failure forces emergency landing
6 Aug 2025 23:02 LONDON (REUTERS)Birmingham Airport in central England temporarily shut its only runway on Wednesday after a small aircraft made an emergency landing after developing landing gear problems that left one person with minor Aviation, a private charter firm that is based at Belfast International Airport and owns the Beech B200 Super King Air plane, said in a statement that the "main under-carriage collapsed on touch down."Birmingham Airport said in a later update on Wednesday that the runway was likely to remain close until 2000 local time (1900 GMT).All people on board the aircraft had been discharged by the emergency services and security screening were temporarily closed, it police said in a post on X that emergency crews responded to the incident, which occurred at around 1240 shared on social media showed a small propeller aircraft stationary on the runway of Britain's seventh busiest aircraft took off at 1211 local time and was bound for Belfast in Northern Ireland, according to plane tracking website airport website showed that some flights have been diverted to other British airports and some departures have been canceled or delayed. The airport, which served some 13 million passengers last year, is Britain's third largest outside London.
Al Etihad
02-08-2025
- Al Etihad
Indonesia's Lewotobi volcano erupts, shoots ash 18 kilometres high
2 Aug 2025 09:47 JAKARTA (dpa)The Lewotobi Laki-Laki volcano on the Indonesian island of Flores erupted again early Saturday, sending a massive ash column up to 18 kilometres into the sky, the country's geological agency eruption occurred at 1:05am (1705 GMT Friday) in East Nusa Tenggara province, generating a dense grey-to-black ash volcanic material was observed drifting towards the southwest, west and northwest, the Centre for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) volcano remains at the highest alert level. Authorities have warned residents and visitors to avoid areas within 6 to 7 kilometres of the least seven domestic flights from the island resort of Bali were delayed, although overall airport operations remained normal, according to Ahmad Syaugi Shahab, general manager of the is home to more than 120 active volcanoes and regularly experiences eruptions that can disrupt air travel, particularly in the eastern part of the Friday, the volcano had also erupted, sending ash approximately 10 kilometres into the sky. Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki, one of two peaks in the Lewotobi volcanic complex, has shown increased activity in recent years. Indonesia, located along the Pacific 'Ring of Fire,' is home to more than 120 active volcanoes.
