London Underground services suspended

There's been a major power outage affecting much of the London Underground network.

The Bakerloo and Waterloo and City lines have been suspended, while there's disruption on the Northern and Elizabeth lines.

It's understood the issue causing the delays has been resolved, but services will still be affected.

A spokesman for TfL told the PA news agency there was an outage in south-west London for "a matter of minutes" and "everything shut down" because of a "National Grid issue".

He went on: "When the power goes out, the trains will have stopped, obviously, there's emergency power on trains and stations so everything wouldn't have gone completely black, if you were on there, but the trains would have stopped and we would have cleared some stations because there's no electricity it might not necessarily be safe for them to be open ... some people would have probably been stuck in a tunnel for a little bit of time."

None of the Overground lines were affected and TfL was in the process of "getting things back up and running again", the spokesman said.

TfL officials were seen directing passengers with suitcases away from Elizabeth line services at Paddington station, recommending they use buses to get across central London instead.

The Bakerloo line entrance had been completely shut at Paddington.

TfL staff said they did not know when the entrance would reopen.

They said: "It was a power outage. The lights just went off, we don't know anything else.

"It's been about an-hour-and-a-half now. We can't say when it will be fixed."

National Grid said there was a "fault" on its transmission network in central London.

A spokesperson said: "We apologise for any inconvenience following a fault on our transmission network in central London this afternoon.

"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.

"We once again apologise for any inconvenience and ongoing travel disruption."

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