Fund urgent replacement / refurbishment of Central Line trains.
We call on the UK Government to work with TFL to urgently fund the replacement or major refurbishment of the Central Line’s 1992 ageing rolling stock, improve service reliability, and implement a short-term stabilisation plan to reduce severe delays, train failures, and dangerous overcrowding.
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Government response threshold (10,000) · 6/10,000
Debate threshold (100,000) · 6/100,000
- 20 FEB 2026Petition rejectedirrelevant
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- 21 JAN 2026Petition created
Background
The Central Line is one of the most unrealiable parts of the London Underground, with near-daily severe delays, repeated service suspensions, train defects and unsafe overcrowding. This is largely due to the ageing 1992 rolling stock which is no longer reliable enough to support a stable timetable.
Passengers routinely experience long gaps between trains, repeated suspension of entire branches, dangerously overcrowded platforms, affecting work, childcare, education and healthcare.