{"id":21332,"date":"2013-01-17T12:11:46","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T11:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/station-evacuated-train-catches-fire-072339554.html"},"modified":"2013-01-17T12:11:46","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T11:11:46","slug":"station-evacuated-after-a-train-catches-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/station-evacuated-after-a-train-catches-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Station evacuated after a train catches fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"first\">A fire on board a train has caused major delays at one of London&#8217;s busiest railway stations during morning rush hour.<\/p>\n<p>Smoke was seen pouring from the engine of a Gatwick Express train, forcing officials to evacuate and close Victoria Station.<\/p>\n<p>Fire crews attended and put out the blaze, which was spotted by a commuter at around 7am.<\/p>\n<p>The train was empty at the time, National Rail said, and no one is reported to have been injured.<\/p>\n<p>All platforms have been since been reopened to the public, and trains are running.<\/p>\n<p>However, commuters have been warned to expect delays of up to 50 minutes during the next few hours, until at least 10am.<\/p>\n<p>Gatwick Express, Southeastern and Southern rail services in and out of the station are affected.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Edwards, an antiques dealer from London, who was trying to get a train to visit his mother, said he spotted flames and black smoke coming from the train.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was just a little bit of flames by the wheels,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They put it out and then started chucking everybody out of the building.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was no panic. It could have got pretty bad if they hadn&#8217;t done something about it straight away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On its Twitter feed, Southern rail confirmed the damaged train was a Gatwick Express service, adding: &#8220;No one was hurt which was good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fire on board a train has caused major delays at one of London&#8217;s busiest railway stations during morning rush hour.<br \/>\nSmoke was seen pouring from the engine of a Gatwick Express train, forcing officials to evacuate and close Victoria Station.<br \/>\nFire cre&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}