UPDATE: Victoria Line is currently running a limited service from Brixton.
A 48-hour tube strike, which starts at 9.30pm, is expected to close Brixton and Stockwell Tube station to passengers.
Transport for London (TfL) say they don’t expect any Tube trains to or from Brixton Station during the strike by members of the the Maritime and Transport union (RMT).
Union members are taking action over planned job cuts on the network.
To avoid the mayhem, we’ve come up with this handy guide to get you to work in the strike.
Alternative routes to work from Brixton Tube Station
There are a number of options open to travellers well used to the convenience and ease of the Victoria Line from Brixton.
- Overland trains run every 15 minutes from Brixton Rail station, Atlantic Road, to Victoria and whisk you there in just eight mins. TfL say they hope to be running Victoria Line Tube trains from Victoria to Seven Sisters every five minutes. District and Circle line trains should be running through Victoria every eight minutes.
- Trains from Herne Hill and Loughborough Junction Stations – both ten to 15 minutes walk from central Brixton, will take you into the City, Farringdon and Kings Cross. For times see National Rail.
- The Overground from Clapham High Street can whizz you around east London to Highbury and Islington. Northern Line trains will not stop at Clapham North .
- Jump on a bus from Brixton (but not the main stops on Brixton Road which will be heaving) or, better still, walk to Stockwell Station, where TfL hope to run trains about every five minutes on the Northern Line. These trains are not expected to stop at Clapham North.
- Best of all, why not dust off that rusty bike, check the brakes, oil the chain and take the healthier route to work you should be taking anyway.
