Chaos on Piccadilly Line after Northern Line closures
Customers are being advised to take a different route home this evening thanks to heavy delays across the Northern Line.
Transport for London tweeted: "No service between Tooting Broadway and Morden due to a signal failure at Tooting Broadway.
"Severe delays on the rest of the line. Please avoid the line where possible."
It is believed the delays have been ongoing for the past three hours, after TFL tweeted that there were also severe delays southbound between Camden Town and Kennington via Bank.
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TFL said: "If your through train is not shown take the first train and change where required. Tickets being accepted on local buses and London Trams, Thameslink, Great Northern and Southern.
"Please avoid the line where possible."
Passengers have taken to social media to express their misery at being held up.
Richard Powley tweeted: “Northern line a total nightmare South. Avoid at all costs.”
Karma Filfilan said: “Whatever joy I had for Friday has been prised from my cold, dead hands by the hell of the northern line #FridayFeeling.”
Sabina Willis added: “When you get to leave work early but end up getting the usual train because of the sodding @northernline delays.”
Lisa tweeted: "My Friday feeling has been well and truly crushed. No northern line tubes and have to get an even more rammed bus which takes over an hour."
The Picadilly line has also faced severe delays tonight.