The lift, at Elephant and Castle Tube station, cut out just before it reached Tube level Credit: Alamy She also revealed how a little girl had to urinate in a plastic bag while another woman ...

Tube passengers were stuck in a crowded lift for more than an hour as engineers and firefighters struggled to free commuters. Fire crews were called to reports of 23 people who were trapped inside ...

The data shows that 12 lift closures lasted for more than 20 hours. Stations with the highest frequency of closures were Wood Lane, Southfields, West Brompton and Golders Green.