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A London Underground spokesperson said:
"At 12.26pm this afternoon, the leading bogie of the 7th car of a westbound Central line train derailed approaching White City. The derailment was at the relatively low speed of around 15mph.
"Around 150 passengers were taken off the train within minutes and there are no injuries.
"As a precautionary measure, emergency services were on the scene. We are working to restore services as quickly as possible.
"The initial investigation has focused on the track. The derailment occurred at a set of points that were immobilised, while they were awaiting further track work. Speed restrictions were in place. The rolling stock was not a likely cause of the derailment."
The Central line is currently suspended North Acton to Marble Arch. Central line services are currently running as follows:
Replacement bus services are also being introduced from 1500hrs as follows:
To get to stations between North Action and West Ruislip, catch the Piccadilly or Metropolitan lines to Rayners Lane for the connecting buses to Northolt OR catch the Bakerloo line to Willesden junction for connecting buses to North Acton.
To get to stations between Marble Arch and North Acton, use local bus services and alternative Tube routes. The 94 bus runs from Marble Arch, calling at all stations to Shepherd's Bush and Goldhawk Road.
Customers travelling from Central London to Ealing Broadway are advised to use District line services or Thames trains from Paddington.
For passengers who regularly use Hanger Lane station on the Central line, it is only a short walk to Park Royal on the Piccadilly line.
Tube tickets will be valid on existing bus and rail routes across the affected area. We hope to resume normal services as quickly as possible. More information on the restoration of services will be provided as soon as it is available.
Platform for Art continues the series of exhibitions at Gloucester Road station with new work by Muntean/Rosenblum. In tandem, they will also present new work at Tate Britain as part of the Art Now programme from 17 April - 20 June 2004.
These joint exhibitions, It Is Never Facts That Tell, represent an important and exciting collaboration between London Underground and Tate Britain. Muntean/Rosenblum have worked together since 1992.
Consistently featuring in their work are generic adolescent figures, which are initially appropriated from lifestyle and fashion magazines but then undergo a whole process of transformation and construction.
These young, beautiful people are depicted in drawings, paintings or photographs, alone or in groups, in various urban or interior settings. Words and phrases, culled from similar sources, are also carefully placed in the works as if as captions for the images.
However, the relationship between image and text is not obvious, raising further questions rather than reinforcing a specific message.
Muntean/Rosenblum's work, in its reference to classical, particularly devotional and allegorical, painting, brings the motifs and emblems of Christian iconography to bear on contemporary characters and situations.
The figures could either communicate pathos, reminiscent of characters from Renaissance paintings undergoing a sublime religious experience or they could simply be bored, a symbol of contemporary ennui.
Similarly the disjointed phrases could speak of aspiration and promise, or they could offer notions of doubt and misunderstanding. In keeping with the deliberate uncertainty of meaning in their work, Muntean/Rosenblum question the notion of authorship by working in partnership to create a joint signature style.
The exhibition at Gloucester Road comprises ten billboard-sized photographs of new drawings in a mis en scene that includes a variety of personal effects to suggest a private space; it could even be the floor of the artists' studio.
The photographs on display at Gloucester Road are reproductions of some of the drawings included in Tate Britain's Art Now exhibition, which will be Muntean/Rosenblum's first show in a British museum. The drawings on display at Tate Britain will be exhibited together with paintings, new video work and a sculpture by the artists.
The artists, born 1962, have worked in collaboration since 1992. They live and work in London and Vienna. Their solo exhibitions include those at Mareen Paley/ Interim Art, 2003, De Appel, Amsterdam, 2002, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, 2000, SECESSION, Vienna, 2000.
For more information: Platform for Art 020 7918 3891 Email: plat4art@tube.tfl.gov.uk
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