Central London has a new fountain! Burst water main outside Victoria Station causes chaos

A burst h2o main adjacent Victoria Station caused question chaos connected Tuesday greeting aft respective feet of h2o was sent shooting successful the air.

The incidental astatine astir 5am connected Victoria Street successful cardinal London caused 8 buses to beryllium enactment connected diversion arsenic engineers closed disconnected the westbound conception of roadworthy to hole the burst pipe.

The roadworthy was partially blocked astatine Vauxhall Bridge Road earlier reopening astatine astir 8am arsenic engineers worked to hole the problem.

A witnesser astatine the country said: “I spoke to the engineers, and they’ve enactment a digger implicit the apical of it to halt it squirting out. They said an aged Victorian tube had caused it, it happened astatine astir 5 this morning.

“Everyone was getting a escaped car wash, each the buses and everything.

“It’s a spot of a catastrophe portion that an aged Victorian tube tin origin this benignant of disruption.

“They’ve stopped it present until Thames Water tin get retired to hole it.”

TfL said autobus routes 3, 11, 26, 148, N11, N26, N44, and N136 were enactment connected diversion arsenic Thames Water attempted to repair the burst pipe.

Buses westbound towards Victoria are being diverted via Rochester Row and Vauxhall Bridge Road, missing the stops for Westminster City Hall and Westminster Cathedral / Victoria Station.

Buses eastbound are diverted via Victoria Street, Grosvenor Gardens, Lower Grosvenor Place, Bressenden Place, and Victoria Street, but are not missing immoderate stops.