June 29th 2023.
Passengers on the Elizabeth Line have been left stranded after a swan blocked part of the route, causing serious disruption to services. Services have been suspended between Heathrow Airport and Abbey Wood, via central London, with 'severe delays' on the rest of the line.
Transport for London has described the incident as 'an obstruction on the track', while National Rail said there were 'animals on the railway'. The Elizabeth line, which opened in May 2022 at an estimated cost of £18.9 billion, stretches from Reading in Berkshire and Heathrow Airport to Shenfield in Essex and Abbey Wood.
One passenger tweeted at Transport for London, expressing their frustration with the situation: 'What’s going on with Elizabeth Line, been stuck on train for an hour and someone is urinating on the accessibility carriage. You deal with ill passengers by removing them from the train, why don’t you use the same logic here by removing the swan from the line, incompetence!'
It's not the first time a wild animal has caused disruption on the London Underground. In 2018, a passenger on the District Line tweeted a photo of a fox inside the carriage.
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