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Tube passengers were forced to walk down the tracks after enduring the nightmarish ordeal of being stuck on a train for three hours.
A faulty Jubilee line train got stuck between Westminster and Waterloo stations on Monday night, during the London Underground network’s peak hours.
Commuters then had to shuffle out of sweltering carriages, filled to the brim with passengers.
Footage posted by Nadine A to TikTok shows confused people waiting on the train for hours before eventually trudging up the tracks to safety.
It sees Tube users squeezed together up close, with some seemingly texting people on mobile phones as the crisis ramps up.
The camera then flips to Nadine who anxiously puts her hand to her face as she stands up by one of the closed doors.
At this point, some of the lights in the carriage appear to be fading.
After a three-hour saga, passengers are finally able to file along a now pitch black train and make their escape through the front.
Tube passengers were forced to walk down the tracks after enduring the nightmarish ordeal of being stuck on a train for three hours
Horrific footage posted by Nadine A, pictured, to TikTok shows confused people waiting on the train for hours
It sees Tube users squeezed together up close, with some seemingly texting people on mobile phones as the crisis ramps up
The grim experience is far from over, however, as commuters, many of whom are dressed in smart work attire, traipse through a dark tunnel, up some stone stairs and into a station.
The beleaguered group eventually make their way up an escalator and back into the real world.
Nadine told the BBC: ‘For about an hour or more we had no updates at all, not even from the driver, because the power was out.
‘Eventually, the driver made an announcement over the intercom saying there was an electrical problem in another carriage. We were not given much detail but we saw an engineer passing through.
‘After about 40 minutes, they tried to continue the journey towards Westminster, but the train stopped again and you could feel something was not right.’
She added that the driver kept reading out the same message about things needing to be checked before eventually announcing the plan.
The train was to reverse back to Waterloo but somehow broke down again in doing so, at which point the electricity cut out entirely.
Nadine stressed that the evacuation was carried out safely when it finally took place.
After a three-hour saga, passengers are finally able to file along the train and make their escape through the front
The grim experience is far from over, however, as commuters, many of whom are dressed in smart work attire, traipse through a dark tunnel
They then climb up some stone stairs and into a station after a horrific evening
The beleaguered group eventually make their way up an escalator and back into the real world
Severe delays on the Jubilee line continued into Tuesday morning, with the service part suspended between London Bridge and Green Park, before resuming normal service later in the day.
A TfL spokesperson said: ‘Engineers are working as quickly as possible to restore a good service on the line.
‘We apologise to Jubilee line customers who were held on a faulty train yesterday evening and to those customers whose journeys have been disrupted by this incident, which involved the incident train and an additional faulty train.’
A British Transport Police spokesperson said: ‘Officers received a report around 6.50pm yesterday (September 1) that a Jubilee Line train became stuck between Waterloo and Westminster Underground stations.
‘Officers assisted TfL staff to ensure passengers were safely evacuated from the train and onto the platform.’
