Bakerloo line tunnel collapse

[Maggie May]

Twitter's going nuts at the moment that the Bakerloo line tunnel has collapsed under the River Thames.

[This Charming Man]

TFL and BTP saying nothing is wrong and they're just attending to an obstruction.

[mdearlove]

seen it on Twitter but not on any credible news site/station

[Soton7]

TfL deny 'tunnel collapse'

 

"There is no tunnel collapse. There was a small defect in a tunnel wall, which was hit by a tube train - nobody has been hurt.

 

Structural engineers are at the scene and they hope to get things moving in a couple of hours".

 

http://www.itv.com/news/london/

[This Charming Man]

seen it on Twitter but not on any credible news site/station

 

All the big guns; BBC, Telegraph etc were tweeting about it but TFL now denying it.

[Hatch]

Good job I chose Jubilee line this morning instead of Bakerloo.

[Minty]

A classic example of how the combination of a silly, unsubstantiated rumour and social media can feed the world completely wrong information.

[stevegrant]

A classic example of how the combination of a silly, unsubstantiated rumour and social media can feed the world completely wrong information.

Apparently the source of the "oh noes, the tunnel's collapsed" rumour was the RMT

[buctootim]

Apparently the source of the "oh noes, the tunnel's collapsed" rumour was the RMT

 

RMT are blaming TfL for "a cavalier attitude to safety" on the exact day RMT memeber maintenance workers at Tfl are out on on strike........

[SNSUN]

I haven't heard anything major about it, and I'm currently at work. Just a suspension. We are telling people to avoid the line though, except that one lady I didn't get on with...

[bridge too far]

RMT are blaming TfL for "a cavalier attitude to safety" on the exact day RMT memeber maintenance workers at Tfl are out on on strike........

 

But not on the Bakerloo line apparently.

[SNSUN]

RMT are blaming TfL for "a cavalier attitude to safety" on the exact day RMT memeber maintenance workers at Tfl are out on on strike........

 

BTF's right, It's the JNP TubeLines workers that are out on strike. (Jubilee, Northern, Piccadilly) Nothing has happened so far, good service at the moment. London Underground has said in the past that, besides major problems, we can get through a few days without maintaining the track or trains - as evidenced during the 24 hour running on New Years Eves.

[buctootim]

BTF's right, It's the JNP TubeLines workers that are out on strike. (Jubilee, Northern, Piccadilly) Nothing has happened so far, good service at the moment. London Underground has said in the past that, besides major problems, we can get through a few days without maintaining the track or trains - as evidenced during the 24 hour running on New Years Eves.

 

Im not saying they caused the problem, just that its in their interests to announce a press grabbing dramatic 'tunnel collapse' when maintenance workers have a grievance.

[TopGun]

No collapse - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-17853428