{"id":549817,"date":"2026-04-25T10:02:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T10:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/549817\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T10:02:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T10:02:18","slug":"london-tube-strike-live-walkout-finally-ends-but-underground-still-disrupted-news-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/549817\/","title":{"rendered":"London tube strike LIVE: Walkout finally ends but Underground still disrupted | News UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And Londoners and tourists must go on too despite strikes affecting their journeys. <\/p>\n<p>Mette Andersen, 55, had landed at Gatwick Airport with her daughter Simone Larsen, 30, from Roskilde, Denmark, for a weekend in London.<\/p>\n<p>They said they only found out about the Tube strike when they went down the stairs to the Underground.<\/p>\n<p>Simone said they didn\u2019t look how much a taxi would cost and were going to take a bus to their Marble Arch hotel.<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u2018But travelling on the red bus is a typical London experience so it\u2019s okay.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img width=\"646\" height=\"382\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_7489-dc7b-e1777017485625.jpeg\" class=\"article-image wp-image-28099668\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n\t\tSimone had arrived to London with her mum Metter (right) and only found out about the strike when they tried to enter the Underground at Victoria station (Picture: Noora Mykkanen\/Metro)<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img width=\"646\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_7479-1-1490.jpg\" class=\"article-image wp-image-28093632\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t(Picture: Noora Mykkanen\/Metro)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And Londoners and tourists must go on too despite strikes affecting their journeys. Mette Andersen, 55, had landed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,26851,50,15835,23880,201,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-549817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-london-underground","tag-news","tag-strikes","tag-transport-for-london","tag-travel-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549817","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=549817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}