Commuters wait to board buses in Brixton during a 24-hour tube strike. Pic/AFP

London: Millions of Londoners struggled to work on Monday at the start of a week of travel chaos, which sees rail networks brought to a standstill by a series of strikes. Commuters used cars, boats, bicycles and heaving buses to cope with a 24-hour walkout by underground station staff that left the majority of “Tube” stopsclosed and no services operating from mainline stations such as Victoria, Kings Cross and Waterloo.