Passengers are facing a severe problem due to the sudden fire at Barking Station, which damaged dozens of 50-year-old cables resulting into a power failure. This caused the suspension of train services in East London, which includes Barking and Dagenham East, Hammersmith and City and Circle lines. The fire has also affected signals and traction on these lines.

The trains are not operating on the District Line and between Plaistow and Dagenham East and there is no service on the Hammersmith and City and Circle lines between Whitechapel and Barking.

This disruption could last till Wednesday, though engineers are working to repair it, as told by London Underground.

Howard Collins, LU's Chief Operating Officer, said, "Our engineers have been working around the clock to get as many services as possible back up and running, and we are now in a position where the majority of stations affected on Friday now have some service. There will be some disruption through the early part of this week, but we are doing everything we can to resume normal services as soon as possible”.

To ease the travelling for passengers, a replacement bus service has started being operated between Plaistow, Barking and Dagenham East.