Tube commuters face long journeys home in strike

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There were delays on four lines: the Circle, District, Hammersmith & City, and the Metropolitan.

TfL's website reported "severe delays" to the Circle and Hammersmith & City lines. The Metropolitan line was suspended between Baker Street and Aldgate and the District line suspended between Putney Bridge and Wimbledon.

Bob Crow, leader of the RMT which ordered the walkout in a row over working conditions, said the strike was "100 per cent solid".

Mr Crow said: "Our members are rock solid in their support for this strike action and in their determination to defend their jobs and working conditions."

However, a London Underground spokesman said there had been "very little" disruption. He said the problems with the District line was a Network Rail fault where the track is shared.

A TfL spokesman said: "Despite strike action by the RMT a good service is operating across the LU network this morning.

"Londoners will share our dismay at the RMT leadership's cynical attempt to jeopardise the Tube's operation to try to gain overtime pay for their members.

"We are planning to introduce a shift pattern covering seven days a week, to ensure planned engineering staff are always available. That staffing agreement already exists, but the RMT is trying to tear it up. The RMT leadership should end this action."