TfL sends Jubilee passengers to the Elizabeth line, which has no Heathrow service

One of the five alternatives TfL names for passengers on the severely delayed Jubilee line has no service on part of its own route, its status record showed on Friday 14 August 2026.

The Jubilee entry reads: "Jubilee Line: Severe delays due to an earlier points failure at Stanmore. Tickets are being accepted on London Buses, DLR, Elizabeth line, Mildmay line and Thameslink."

On the Elizabeth line, named there, TfL states: "No service between Paddington and Heathrow Terminals / Reading and SEVERE DELAYS on the rest of the line while we fix a power supply failure at Paddington."

The Smoke reported this morning that the power failure had cut Elizabeth line services to Heathrow and Reading. TfL still records it as a fault it is fixing, and severe delays now cover the rest of that line.

The DLR, also on the Jubilee's list, is running a good service, as is the Mildmay line. London Buses and Thameslink, the other two named, sit outside TfL's line status feed.

Circle line passengers get similar advice. That line has severe delays from train cancellations, and TfL is accepting Circle tickets on London Buses, Thameslink and the Elizabeth line.

One piece of TfL's advice holds up in full. The Elizabeth line entry tells passengers to use the Piccadilly line between Heathrow Airport and central London, and a direct check returned good service on the Piccadilly.

The Northern line has its full route back. TfL records "Severe delays due to earlier faulty trains in the East Finchley area", with tickets accepted on London Buses, London Trams, Thameslink, Great Northern and South Western Railway, and no stretch of the line without service.

The Central line has since joined the list, with minor delays between North Acton and Ealing Broadway and West Ruislip, and between Leytonstone and Epping and Hainault, which TfL attributes to train cancellations. Minor delays continue on the Bakerloo from the same cause.

That makes five of the eleven Tube lines delayed. Direct checks returned good service on the other six — District, Hammersmith & City, Metropolitan, Piccadilly, Victoria and Waterloo & City — and on all six Overground lines, Liberty, Lioness, Mildmay, Suffragette, Weaver and Windrush.

Trams are shut between Reeves Corner and East Croydon until 23 August under planned engineering work, which The Smoke reported earlier this week.

None of the entries carries an estimate of when the faults will be cleared. Two of them, on the Jubilee and the Northern, describe delays outlasting the fault that caused them, each recorded as an earlier failure; the Elizabeth line entry records a fault TfL is still fixing.