{"id":558596,"date":"2026-04-30T11:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T11:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/558596\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T11:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T11:17:08","slug":"farringdon-station-shut-due-to-suspected-gas-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/558596\/","title":{"rendered":"Farringdon station shut due to suspected gas leak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Farringdon station has been evacuated and closed due to a suspected gas leak, with a &#8220;small number of passengers reporting feeling unwell&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">British Transport Police (BTP) was called to the station at 09:42 BST and the incident is also affecting train services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BTP said: &#8220;Officers are in attendance, alongside the ambulance service and the fire brigade, and the station has been evacuated while enquiries are conducted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">National Rail has advised passengers that there will be no services at Farringdon until after midday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Farringdon station has been evacuated and closed due to a suspected gas leak, with a &#8220;small number of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-558596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558596","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=558596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}