A solitary passenger on the escalator at Bank underground station, usually one of the most congested on the network. “So far I’ve not had to breach the two-metre rule.”He restores antiques but is currently out of work and staying at home. Some of them were crying and on the phone wanting to go. When we get to the hotels all the rooms are gone, then where are we supposed to go. It’s kind of weird.”“They’ve closed Charing Cross and they’re putting us all in hotel rooms, but we’re being allocated rooms miles away. The operator said it was now using "additional substances" that kill viruses and bacteria on contact in order to reduce the risk of coronavirus spreading. Some trains pass through without a single passenger getting on or off.Louis is travelling to Southwark for his first day in his new job as a police officer.“When I was getting the bus from Sidcup I was more afraid. Everybody is pretty much overwhelmed,” he said.But in an important message for the nation he says, “there is an abundance of toilet roll”.“People should not be worried. How are we meant to wash our hands? Now they have police out moving us on. One of them managed to leave the house and they had to call the police. She’s very relieved and happy that finally we are going home,” says Roxy.“The trains are so empty. People aren’t going to work so we can’t get money begging. TfL gave the Guardian access over two days to document its reduced tube service, which is still running during the Covid-19 crisisThe barrel-vaulted tunnels and platforms of the tube stations traversed by millions of Londoners a day are empty.Some, grotty and bleak with just the sound of a creaking escalator breaking the eerie silence, others such as Lord Foster’s Canary Wharf and the art deco Arnos Grove, laying bare their architectural magnificence in the newly ordained coronavirus peace.A solitary passenger on the escalator at Bank underground station, usually one of the most congested on the network.Three weeks into the coronavirus lockdown, traffic on the tube has been slashed with all but essential workers discouraged from travelling because of the risk of infection in crowds. Over the past 10 years, 500 people got their food there every night and there’s never been any trouble. He was 73 and had bronchitis. It was quite chaotic in the first few weeks. We used to do the normal things like paper, pens, staplers, just general homeware.“Now it’s pasta, toilet paper, oils. “Stay at home”. The first confirmed case of COVID-19 in London was detected on 12 February 2020, in a woman who had arrived from China with the virus a few days earlier. We visited outside rush hour (due to Tfl restrictions) and the station was near deserted.Sarah commutes from Essex to the Royal London hospital, one of the biggest hospitals in the capital. Now everybody is used to it so it is better.”Monument station on the north bank of the Thames is linked to Bank through a warren of underground walkways that connect the Circle, District, Metropolitan and Northern lines and “the drain”, the nickname for the Waterloo and City line, which is closed during the coronavirus lockdown.Empty train with doors open at Monument underground station. Her husband has just died. Transport for London has unveiled its plans to tackle cleanliness on the London Underground as the number of cases of coronavirus in the UK increases. I think the important thing is that everyone gets tested.”“In Korea you can walk into a GP surgery and get tested. I don’t know if the body is still at home.”Only immediate families are advised to attend funeral services in England, according to government guidance, so it is an especially challenging time for all the bereaved.“At least he died at home and wasn’t in hospital because she wouldn’t have been able to be with him,” she says.Ricky is on his way to work at an office block and is anxious about travelling on the tube.“I follow the distancing rules but when you are on the underground there is more virus because it’s more compact.


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