'Major' delays to Heathrow trains as pipe bursts

There are nary trains going successful and retired of Heathrow aft a burst h2o main caused flooding astatine an airdrome bid station.

Passengers are asked to let other clip and put alternate means of travel.

Heathrow Express, which usually runs from Paddington to the airdrome each 15 minutes, is closed successful some directions owed to a responsibility with the signalling system, according to the service's website.

The Elizabeth enactment is suspended betwixt Hayes and Harlington and Heathrow Airport owed to a awesome nonaccomplishment caused by flooding astatine Heathrow Terminals 2 & 3, according to Transport for London.

The Piccadilly enactment is besides closed betwixt Heathrow and Acton Town arsenic portion of planned works.

Heathrow Airport has apologised for immoderate inconvenience caused.

Many passengers person taken to societal media to dependable their frustration, including South Devon MP Caroline Voaden.

Voaden posted connected X: "Absolute carnage astatine Heathrow Airport.

"All bid lines closed - immoderate planned, immoderate not. Hundreds waiting for buses. People wandering astir lost.

"Parents crying. Staff overwhelmed, a fewer trying to help, others avoiding passengers, chatting down grills successful the conduit entrance."

Another rider who uses the grip @LucyProxxyfox connected X described the concern arsenic "unbearable" with agelong queues and a deficiency of information.