The Transport for London (TfL) website showed the entire Bakerloo, Waterloo and City, Weaver, and Suffragette Lines were suspended while there were severe delays and part suspensions on the Elizabeth, Jubilee, Northern, and Piccadilly lines.
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Several stations were forced to close after the incident around 2.30pm, including Marble Arch, Holborn, and Tottenham Court Road.
A spokesman for TfL said there was an outage in southwest London for “a matter of minutes” and “everything shut down” due to a “National Grid issue”.
The spokesman added that “some people would have probably been stuck in a tunnel for a little bit of time”.
TfL said it was in the process of “getting things back up and running again” but it “can’t say when it will be fixed” and officials “don’t know anything else”.
At Paddington station, staff were seen directing passengers with suitcases away from Elizabeth Line services recommending they use bus routes instead, with the Bakerloo Line entrance completely shut.
Alison Hendry, 33, and Joseph Richardson, 37, travelled on the Heathrow Express to Paddington after flying from Glasgow earlier on Monday.
Ms Hendry said: “It’s a bit annoying they only told us when we got here. We walked all the way across the station, we have to go all the way back.”
“It doesn’t even bother me. But if I was in a rush, it would,” Mr Richardson added.
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