‘Stuck’ Tube passengers forced to smash windows as ‘carriages fill with smoke’
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Tube passengers have described their horror after becoming 'stuck' on a TFL train on the underground at Clapham Common, as carriages filled with smoke.
Video circulating on social media shows people climbing through the shattered windows of an Underground train and legging it to safety as the carriages appeared to fill up with smoke.
One man smashes the windows with a hard object as a young woman and a businessman in a suit escape the mayhem in South London.
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One bloke who said he was on the train, Jake Sharp, tweeted: "Stuck on the train at Clapham Common and carriages filling with smoke, doors won’t open if it wasn’t for workmen on the platform we wouldn’t have got out! @TfL you should be ashamed! The response from station staff was horrific!"
Jake then described the horror to the Daily Star, saying: "There was a smell of smoke on the train, the train went down about five carriages into the tunnel and stopped, the train on the opposite side pulled in and people were running to get off the platform.
"The whole time the the carriages were filling with smoke and the doors did not or would not open and when we tried to open them they only opened maybe 10cm.
"Thanks to the workman on the platform on their way home they had hammers and other tools to smash all the windows for everyone to get out."
He added that there was "no response from station staff at all even with everyone’s scream for help."
Jake said he wasn't sure if everyone made it off the train and added that he sustained a cut on his chest from glass during the mad scramble to evacuate the station.
He added that "hysteria kicked in" when the driver "said nothing" despite a strong burning smell.
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Jake said he initially thought it was rubber burning, then people began to panic.
Another passenger, Nick Bonfield, said "you could see people looking around concerned" when the smell of smoke entered the carriage.
He told the Star: "Then the tube moved for a couple of seconds and came to an abrupt halt. The doors weren’t opening and people were getting panicked and trying to open the doors.
"Then the lights on the tube went off. Someone came a couple of minutes later and the doors opened. There was glass all over the platform from when the windows had been smashed and it smelled strongly of smoke."
Katherine Cook also said she was in the station at the time. She tweeted: "Scary evacuation from our tube at Clapham Common station.
"Doors were all sealed with us inside and other passengers banging and smashing windows to get out of carriages filling with smoke."
A tweet from 'Tweetthetube' said a fire was being responded to.
It read: "Northern Line: No service between Morden and Clapham Common while we respond to a fire alert at Morden. SEVERE DELAYS on the rest of the line. Tickets are being accepted on London Trams, Southeastern, Thameslink and Buses via any reasonable route."
TFL has been contacted for comment.
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