Topic: London Tube 'Northern' Line Shut

[Roger]

Shutdown on safety row Tube line 
 
An entire London Underground line has been shut down amid safety concerns.

Services on the Northern Line, which carries 660,400 people every weekday, have been suspended and may remain closed on Thursday.

Union bosses called for trains to be withdrawn on Wednesday, after one ran through a red light at Mill Hill East, and its emergency brakes failed.

It was the fifth incident on the line, and dozens of drivers are refusing to work on safety grounds.

Commuters using the Northern Line, one of the busiest on the Tube network, have suffered delays all week, because of concerns over the brakes.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4335994.stm

[Rizla]

Been a bit of a disaster area and one to avoid for the past week, this comes as no suprise at all

[filopastry]

"Working from home " tomorrow if it stays shut, here's hoping those drivers do the decent thing

[buzzing]

Always a way to work with the tube. If one lines down, just get somehting thats close to it and then take a bus

[Alf]

Everybody who was late to work at my place blamed it on the Northern line, I seemed to remember the same thing happening with the Central line a few years back 

[Hij]

Everybody who was late to work at my place blamed it on the Northern line

I used to love doing this at school on different days. Like when it was known there was road works on the main entrances to our city i'd blame my lateness on that, even though I lived a 5 minute walk away