THE JUBILEE line will partly shut during the Easter holiday period for engineering work following a week of disruption on the service.

Passengers were trapped in trains on the line and were evacuated through tunnels after a major power failure crippled the line on Tuesday, with the entire line shutting down just after 7pm.

Brent Central MP Sarah Teather has called on Mayor Boris Johnson to "get a grip" of the tube network in advance of the bank holiday weekend.

Other lines including the Bakerloo, Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines will be part suspended over the weekend.

She said: "This farce would be comical if it wasn't so horrendous for my constituents who will be deprived of a functioning tube, causing havoc over an important bank holiday weekend.

“Rather than behaving like schoolboys, blaming each other, Boris and his directors at TfL should get on with fixing the tube and telling Londoners when it will be open for service again.

“My constituents don't care who is to blame, all they want is a functioning service that they can rely over the holiday period."

Commenting on the disruption of the Jubilee line earlier this week, Navin Shah, Assembly Member for Brent and Harrow, said today: “The constant failures and disruption, practically on a daily basis, to the commuters in my constituency is now beyond a joke.

“Like many commuters to London I too use the Jubilee Line on a regular basis and it’s not only matter of weekend closures anymore. It’s time that this farcical situation is brought to a halt.

“We’ve been promised that weekend closures will stop but there’s been slippage after slippage in deadlines given by Mayor Johnson. “My constituents using the Metropolitan line too suffer from regular delays.

“The Mayor is strong on promises but is failing all the time in delivering on promises. No wonder that people have lost confidence in the Mayor”

Jubilee Line manager Kevin Bootle said: "I'm fully aware it's been a very difficult week for anyone using my line and I am sorry.

"There is, though, more work this weekend, at the north end of the line, as we continue to test and adjust the new signalling system.

"It will, eventually, mean we can make journey times faster and carry more passengers each hour.

"The work's disruptive, I know, but I hope this helps explain what we're doing."