Highbury and Islington: Faulty fire alarm blares for 90 minutes sparking Tube station evacuation

A faulty fire alarm today shut a north London Tube station and was left blaring for more than an hour and a half while engineers battled to fix it.

Passengers were evacuated from Highbury and Islington at 12.33pm after the fire alert, which turned out to be a false alarm.

One commuter posted a video online in which the Tube tannoy repeatedly told customers: "Due to a reported emergency would all passengers leave the station immediately."

Transport for London said the fault had occurred with equipment on the Network Rail side of the station but it had also affected the Tube's system.

National Rail warned there could be disruption at the Overground station until 3pm.

Passengers tweeted their confusion following the evacuation.

Lina Mikolajczyk wrote: "Evacuation from Highbury and Islington station - super scary - not sure what happened."

Chris Mayo tweeted: "Evacuation at Highbury & Islington station. Londoners remain grumpy."

Engineers finally fixed the fault at about 2pm, Transport for London said.