Victoria line severe delays, Circle running again: London Underground today, 2 October

Updated at 08:20. The picture has flipped in two hours: the Circle line is running again, the Victoria has gone from minor to severe delays. The morning section is rewritten to match.

This morning: what to avoid

Victoria line — severe delays, now the main problem of the morning. The cause is a track fault at Brixton. TfL has opened ticket acceptance wide: London Buses, Weaver line, Suffragette line, Great Northern, Thameslink, Greater Anglia, South Western Railway and Southeastern all accept Victoria tickets "via any reasonable route". From the north (Walthamstow, Tottenham Hale) switch to the Weaver line or Greater Anglia into Liverpool Street; from the south, Southeastern and Thameslink run Brixton to Victoria, and the Northern line serves Stockwell; in the centre, Oxford Circus, Euston and King's Cross are covered by the Northern, Piccadilly and Elizabeth lines.

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District — severe delays now only between Barking and Upminster, minor on the rest, after the earlier points failure at Gloucester Road. On the eastern end take c2c from Upminster or Barking to Fenchurch Street; Tube tickets are accepted on London Buses.

The Circle line is running again — minor delays as an echo of the same failure. It was suspended entirely first thing. Central and Northern have minor delays from train cancellations. Everything else has a Good Service; Piccadilly and Elizabeth remain the best way across the centre and out west.

Tonight and the journey home

Croydon trams: Wandle Park — Reeves Corner closes after 22:00. Not a one-night job — it runs continuously from Saturday 3 to Wednesday 7 October. (Corrected on 3 October against TfL's live status: no eastbound service Wandle Park to Centrale, no westbound service Church Street to Wandle Park.) If you travel late: the Jubilee line is closed Finchley Road — Stratford during Friday Night Tube, and Northern line trains will not stop at Waterloo between 02:45 and 04:15.

Weekend plans: on Saturday daytime the Jubilee is closed Green Park — Canary Wharf, the Windrush line (the former East London line) does not stop at Canada Water on either day, and on Sunday Surrey Quays — Clapham Junction and the DLR between Tower Gateway and Shadwell are closed. The full October closure calendar is in a separate piece.

What to do

On the Victoria line, do not wait it out on the platform — suburban trains and buses are carrying Victoria tickets right now. Allow 20 minutes. If you travel via Gloucester Road, South Kensington or Earl's Court, take the Piccadilly — it has a Good Service. Driving today? Check fuel prices near you.

Line status changes through the day — twice already this morning — and this brief comes out once. The live board refreshes every two minutes, so before you leave the house, check line status right now.