{"id":490551,"date":"2026-03-23T07:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T07:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/490551\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T07:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T07:42:12","slug":"dozens-helped-to-safety-after-train-catches-fire-at-newton-abbot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/490551\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens helped to safety after train catches fire at Newton Abbot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A fire broke out underneath the carriage of a passenger train at Newton Abbot on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service said it had sent five fire engines  to the scene at 14:36 GMT and crews found a small fire which involved &#8220;over-heated wheel assemblies&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The service said 30 passengers and railway staff had been helped to safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for Great Western Railway said the line between Plymouth and Exeter had been blocked by &#8220;a broken down train&#8221; and replacement buses were running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire broke out underneath the carriage of a passenger train at Newton Abbot on Sunday afternoon. Devon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-490551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490551","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=490551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}