UPDATE: TfL confirm concrete fiasco
The Victoria Line is currently suspended between Brixton and Warren Street after reported flooding at Victoria Station.
The tube line has been down since before 3pm this afternoon, according to Transport for London, and unsubstantiated rumours have surfaced that unwitting engineers may have poured concrete into a control room.
There is no information about when it might reopen, so commuters heading south toward Brixton would be better to find another route home.
Alternative options include one of the many buses, Northern Line to Stockwell or getting the overground from Victoria Station into Brixton’s rail station. If you’re near the City you could also get a train to Loughborough Junction or Herne Hill and walk it.
One website, which seems to excel at spoofs, has suggested the chaos was down to engineers mistakenly pouring fast-setting concrete into a control room at Victoria, though there is no other suggestion that this is true and TfL maintain that it is “flooding” issue.
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Very good info. Lucky me I discovered your blog by accident (stumbleupon).
I have book-marked it for later!
Why? Is it a euphemism or something? Like ‘up the OXO tower’. And are GPs prescribing concrete instead of Imodium…? Or am I have I got chronic sense of humor failure…?
An ‘engineer’ is a highly qualified and knowledgeable individual that creates and designs and checks things; I would suspect that someone who pours concrete is not an engineer, hired more for their physical strength than their knowledge. Having said that my GP is also supposed to be a highly qualified and knowledgeable individual but evidence would suggest otherwise.
>> has suggested the chaos was down to engineers mistakenly pouring fast-setting concrete into a control room at Victoria,
Ha ha, that is a good spoof. No one could be that stupid. Top marks for creativity. Concrete in control room, who ever thought that up should write comedy.