Elizabeth line status
Severe Delays right now. Below: what TfL says, and how often this line has been disrupted over the last thirty days.
Last updated 4 Aug 2026, 14:59
Right now
Transport for London reports severe delays on the Elizabeth line, since . In TfL’s own words: Severe delays between Abbey Wood and Heathrow Airport/Reading while we fix a points failure in the Paddington area. Tickets are being accepted on London Underground, London Buses, Great Western Railway, South Western Railway and Chiltern Railway's. MINOR DELAYS on the rest of the line
The last thirty days
Unplanned disruption on 2 of the last thirty days, across 4 separate spells, totalling 3h 30m. Planned engineering work is excluded.
| Started | Status | Reason given |
|---|---|---|
| Severe Delays | Severe delays between Abbey Wood and Heathrow Airport/Reading while we fix a points failure in the Paddington area. Tickets are being accepted on London Underground, London Buses, Great Western Railway, South Western Railway and Chiltern Railway's. MINOR DELAYS on the rest of the line | |
| Severe Delays | Severe delays between Paddington and Heathrow Airport/Reading and MINOR DELAYS between Paddington and Abbey Wood while we fix a signal failure in the Paddington area. Tickets are being accepted on London Underground, London Buses, Great Western Railway, South Western Railway and Chiltern Railway's. GOOD SERVICE on the rest of the line. | |
| Severe Delays | Severe delays between Paddington and Heathrow Terminals/Reading while we fix a signal fault in the Ladbroke Grove area. Tickets are being accepted on London Underground. GOOD SERVICE on the rest of the line. | |
| Minor Delays | Minor delays between Abbey Wood and Reading / Heathrow Terminals while we fix a points failure at Paddington. GOOD SERVICE on the rest of the line. |
Where this comes from
Live status is Transport for London’s own open data. The record is ours: TfL publishes what every line is doing now and keeps no history, so the only way to say how often a line fails is to write it down as it happens. These figures are our arithmetic, not an official TfL statistic.