{"id":321215,"date":"2017-08-11T10:26:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T09:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/smoke-fills-london-underground-train-at-oxford-circus-forcing-evacuation-photos\/"},"modified":"2017-08-11T10:26:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T09:26:35","slug":"smoke-fills-london-underground-train-at-oxford-circus-forcing-evacuation-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/smoke-fills-london-underground-train-at-oxford-circus-forcing-evacuation-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoke fills London Underground train at Oxford Circus forcing evacuation (PHOTOS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.rt.com\/files\/2017.08\/thumbnail\/598d6f67fc7e932f6f8b456a.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><time class=\"date date_article-header\">Published time: 11 Aug, 2017 08:24 <\/time><time class=\"date date_article-header\">Edited time: 11 Aug, 2017 08:57 <\/time><\/p>\n<p>        Oxford Circus tube station has been evacuated and closed following reports of a fire on a Bakerloo Line train.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__text text  js-mediator-article\">\n<p>The London Fire Brigade (LFB) says a crew is on the scene <em>\u201cinvestigating reports of smoke.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Smoke was also reported on the Victoria Line.<\/p>\n<p>A passenger said on social media: <em>\u201cJust got evacuated from Oxford Circus as there was a train on fire on, I think, the Bakerloo line, so best to avoid the Bakerloo line.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Photos posted by Twitter users show passengers covering their faces as the train carriage fills with smoke.<\/p>\n<p>One called the situation <em>\u201cterrifying.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Witnesses also reported the smell of burning plastic.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nothing quite as scary as an evacuation alarm going off at a tube station you&#8217;ve just come into. Sweet tea needed! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OxfordCircus?src=hash\">#OxfordCircus<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TFL?src=hash\">#TFL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chloe Modaberi (@ChloeMod) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChloeMod\/status\/895922274355773440\">August 11, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Transport for London (TfL) said more information will be released once the incident has been investigated.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, passengers have been told to use alternative routes.<\/p>\n<p>British Transport Police (BTP) said the smoke is not being treated as suspicious.<\/p>\n<p>DETAILS TO FOLLOW<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/399267-train-fire-oxford-street\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published time: 11 Aug, 2017 08:24 Edited time: 11 Aug, 2017 08:57 Oxford Circus tube station has been evacuated and closed following reports of a fire on a Bakerloo Line train. The London Fire Brigade (LFB) says a crew is on the scene \u201cinvestigating reports of smoke.\u201d Smoke was also reported on the Victoria Line. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":321216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-321215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321215","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}