We are supposed to be in London (after visiting Paris) from June 22 June 25. I planned this trip a few months ago and went back to the Underground site to print out my routes only to find that I can't get from Waterloo/Westminster to, well, anywhere. Am I doing something wrong or are these two stations shut down?
Posted by
Troy, Oh, USA
2804 posts
No, those two stations are not shut down. Where are you trying to get? From Waterloo station you would take the Jubilee Line to Westminster station.
If you can give us more information we could help you better.
Posted by
NYC
922 posts
There are periodic 'engineering works' at various stations throughout the network that may affect station access or traffic on a portion of a Tube line during the period of work. The following page has a nifty calendar feature that helps you see where planned works are scheduled to be done. Unplanned things also happen, and one simply has to deal with those conditions at the time. Big signs are posted in the stations and announcements are made when an unplanned event impacts service. http://www.tfl.gov.uk/livetravelnews/planned-works/calendar/
Posted by
near Ringwood, Hampshire, UK
521 posts
I can't see any problems with the TFL journey planner. Have you tried again? If it is still causing a problem, give an example of a route you are trying to plan.
Posted by
Tipton, Iowa
332 posts
Check the time of travel in your search query. The tube does not run in the wee hours and the TFL journey planner will not show tube routes.
Posted by
near Ringwood, Hampshire, UK
521 posts
Chip, perhaps you mean something different to me by 'Tube routes', or perhaps you mean it won't show routes in the small hours (when in fact the journey planner won't let you specify a journey time then anyway). However, it does give detailed instructions on how to navigate between two specified locations by Tube (or any combination of Tube, bus, overground train, tram, river bus and on foot). The information it shows you includes which line or lines to take, in which direction, the journey time, where to change and what time you can expect to get there.
Posted by
OP
Madison
2 posts
Thanks for trying to help! I have no idea what was happening yesterday. I re-did the search when I came home from work and got the results I was expecting based upon prior experience. I had both search results up on different tabs and I could see I did the same search, but got totally different results. I can only guess there was some sort of glitch.