Mother and daughter stuck in Underground lift

A mother and her young child suffered a terrifying ordeal after being stuck in a Tube lift on their own for an hour.

Paramedics attended the scene after the alarm was raised at Hainault station at 1.15pm.

Rescue workers struggled to free the pair and they were eventually released at 2.15pm.

The lift is less than nine months old and was opened as part of Transport for London's (TfL's) multi-billion pound Investment Programme.

A key part of the plan was to make Hainault station safer to use for parents and their children.

Neither the child nor the woman - who was not named - needed medical treatment.

A London Underground spokesman said: "They were trapped for exactly one hour and we have apologised profusely to the mother for any distress which may have been caused."

The lift was one of three opened at the Central line station in March this year.

TfL boasted at the time: "Wheelchair users, people with dogs, parents with pushchairs and passengers with heavy luggage can all now benefit from step free access at Hainault station."

Kulveer Ranger, the Mayor of London's transport adviser, said: "Hainault is a cracking example of the improvements the Mayor wants to see in our Tube stations, particularly those in outer London.

"The work that has taken place there will make the station more accessible, safer and easier to use for the thousands of people who rely on it every week."

The mother and child were rescued by the London Fire Brigade.

A spokeswoman said: "We were alerted at 1.21pm - we sent and engine with five fire fighters."

They worked with a London Underground engineer to complete the successful rescue.

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