{"id":448359,"date":"2026-02-27T10:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/448359\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T10:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:51:08","slug":"new-piccadilly-line-trains-delayed-for-another-six-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/448359\/","title":{"rendered":"New Piccadilly line trains delayed for another six months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">TfL said the delay was due to &#8220;the complexity of introducing entirely new trains onto ageing infrastructure&#8221;, with some parts of the line around 120 years old. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harvey added: &#8220;The programme of work that we are undertaking to bring these game\u2011changing trains to London is hugely complex and is underpinned by our steadfast commitment to safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Despite this change in delivery schedule, our teams have been working intensely to push the programme forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Officials said the wider delivery window took into account the remaining work needed to assess whether any final software or systems changes were required.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Aglaja Schneider, joint CEO of Siemens Mobility UKI, said: &#8220;As a Londoner, I know how excited everyone is about the new trains coming into service and, whilst there will be a delay, it won&#8217;t be long before these trains transform travel for millions of people.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TfL said the delay was due to &#8220;the complexity of introducing entirely new trains onto ageing infrastructure&#8221;, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-448359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}