Piccadilly line delays: Commuters 'packed in like sardines' on stationary Tube train for over an hour

Commuters on the stationary Tube train outside Acton Town
Tahmina Mannan / Twitter
Hatty Collier1 August 2016

Commuters today told of how they were "packed in like sardines" on a stationary Tube trains for more than an hour amid severe delays sparked by a signal failure.

Passengers reported being stuck on a non-moving Piccadilly line train between South Ealing and Acton Town as some travellers became unwell and distressed.

The line was suspended between Turnham Green and Ealing Broadway due to a signal failure at Acton Town, Transport for London said.

Trains were able to start running again at about 10am. One passenger said a fellow commuter had fainted.

Tahmina Mannan, 28, told the Standard she was stuck on the stationary train between South Ealing and Acton Town for more than an hour.

She said: “People are beginning to get sick, we had a member of train staff move through very very packed carriages to go attend to someone who's become quite unwell.

“Annoyingly it seems the train driver isn't being told anything. He's trying to be helpful by letting us know he's there but to be honest what most of us want is to at least move to a train station so that we can get off the train.”

Other passengers took to Twitter to vent their frustration at the delays.

Leonardo Guzman said: “Been stuck here near Acton Town for almost an hour now @piccadillyline. Could you at least try to take us back to the nearest station?”

Danny Cowan wrote: "Trapped between south Ealing and Acton Town for the best part of an hour on a @piccadillyline train ... please send help feeling faint."

Another named Lindsay tweeted: “Get me off this train! @TfL 50 minutes now stuck in between South Ealing and Acton Town :(.“

Meher Mumtaz said: “I am one of the many stuck between south ealing and Acton town for the past 45 minutes. Better to have cancelled service!”

A TfL spokeswoman said engineers worked as fast as they could to get services running again.

She added: “We would like to apologise for the disruption that the signal failure has caused.”

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