{"id":365340,"date":"2026-01-12T01:11:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T01:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/365340\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T01:11:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T01:11:24","slug":"severe-delays-on-trains-to-and-from-heathrow-airport-after-fire-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/365340\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe delays on trains to and from Heathrow Airport after fire | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A fire caused severe travel delays on train lines to and from Heathrow Airport.<\/p>\n

Great Western Rail said that due to the fire at a property near the railway line in Southall, between Reading and London Paddington, fewer trains were able to run.<\/p>\n

Train services running to and from the stations may be cancelled or delayed, the rail operator added, and disruption was expected until 11pm.<\/p>\n

As of 8.26pm, GWR said the fire was under control and trains could run on all lines.<\/p>\n

It comes after around 15 tonnes of mixed recycling caught fire at a recycling centre in Johnson Street, Southall, west London.<\/p>\n

Eight fire engines and around 60 firefighters were called to tackle the blaze on Sunday afternoon, the London Fire Brigade said.<\/p>\n

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A Heathrow Express spokesperson added that “due to a significant incident outside of our control, there are currently no Heathrow Express services running” to the airport. Services resumed by around 9pm, but faced delays of up to 15 minutes.<\/p>\n

And according to Transport for London, there was no service on the Elizabeth Line between Paddington and Reading or Heathrow.<\/p>\n

This was later updated to severe delays on lines from Heathrow and Reading to Abbey Wood.<\/p>\n

It added that the London Underground is accepting tickets via any reasonable route, and that there is a good service on the rest of the line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire caused severe travel delays on train lines to and from Heathrow Airport. Great Western Rail said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-365340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365340","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=365340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}