{"id":168016,"date":"2025-09-29T11:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T11:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/168016\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T11:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T11:52:07","slug":"gatwick-evacuation-live-chaos-for-thousands-as-major-aiport-station-s-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/168016\/","title":{"rendered":"Gatwick evacuation LIVE: Chaos for thousands as major aiport station s | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Services through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/gatwick-airport\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gatwick Airport<\/a> will be majorly disrupted until around 3pm after &#8220;multiple incidents across the network&#8221;, National Rail has said.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson added: &#8220;A person has been hit by a train between Luton and St Albans City and also in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/gatwick-airport\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gatwick Airport<\/a> area. Whilst the emergency services attend to both incidents, trains running between Luton and London St Pancras International and through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/gatwick-airport\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gatwick Airport<\/a> may be severely delayed by up to 100 minutes, cancelled or revised.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>South Rail also confirmed that someone was &#8220;hit by a train between Haywards Heath and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/gatwick-airport\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gatwick Airport<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All lines are blocked between these stations whilst the emergency services work to deal with this incident,&#8221; a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Services through Gatwick Airport will be majorly disrupted until around 3pm after &#8220;multiple incidents across the network&#8221;, National&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[390,30143,16072,59,57,58,50,3763,75930,19827,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-168016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-breaking-news","tag-evacuation","tag-gatwick-airport","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-overcrowding","tag-southern-rail","tag-trains","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}