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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Matt Watts

London travel news LIVE: Severe delays on District line and Overground

Passengers faced chaos on the Tube network on Friday due to a police incident at Willesden Green.

Both the Metropolitan Line and Jubilee Lines were part suspended this morning due to the incident, which TfL described as involving a ‘trespasser’.

Police said they were called to Walm Lane at 3.23am amid concern for the welfare of a man on a bridge. He came down seven hours later and has been taken to hospital.

Chiltern Railways cancelled all services in and out Marylebone station with disruption continuing though lunchtime.

National Rail said lines have reopened, but trains still faced delays of by up to 30 minutes and cancellations as services return.There was also chaos elsewhere on the transport network with a points failure between London Bridge and London Blackfriars, meaning the line was blocked. 

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