Toby Anstis late for Heart Dance show after being stuck on tube
Heart Dance Breakfast host Toby Anstis was about an hour late for his show this morning after being stuck ‘on a freezing cold, powerless tube train in London’.
Toby posted a series of tweets earlier, saying that his train had been at a standstill for 15 minutes with no announcements. TFL responded, thanking him for his patience and confirmed the delay was due to a signal failure.
“I’m hearing you’re still trying to wake up an engineer to fix the bloody signal, while we’re all stick on a train. And now the lights have all gone out?!! I’ll be reporting this and wanting compensation,” the Heart presenter replied.
After more than an hour into the delay things were getting tense as Toby tweeted: “Ok, I’m actually being serious now @tfl. We are bloody freezing on this train. Stuck between Hammersmith and Barons Ct, you need to get us off, and quickly. I’m also calling the police as there are now aggressive people causing problems.”
Keeping his listeners up to date, he told them he’d be late for his show, telling them he’d be unable to be there for the start of his radio show at 7, adding that he was “fuming”.
Good morning @heartdance family, due to @tfl keeping us stick on a tube train on the #piccadillyline in London, I’m unable to be there for the start of my radio show at 7. Fuming!! Apparently they’re trying to wake up an engineer to fix a signal. You couldn’t make it up!#london
— Toby Anstis (@tobyanstis) January 17, 2023
After an hour or so, on the freezing cold tube with the lights out, things took a turn for the better as Toby tweeted an update: “Will just get to work for the start of #schoolrunravers on @heartdance at 8.”
He made it for the feature!