{"id":687035,"date":"2026-07-12T03:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T03:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/687035\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T03:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T03:27:14","slug":"stratford-station-fire-46-train-services-cancelled-for-travellers-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/687035\/","title":{"rendered":"Stratford station fire: 46 train services cancelled for travellers this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Travellers are experiencing “major disruption” this morning after a trackside fire broke out at London’s Stratford station with 46 services cancelled.<\/p>\n

London Fire Brigade said eight fire engines and around 60 firefighters were called late yesterday evening to a brush fire in Stratford,<\/a> the current seventh-busiest station in Great Britain.<\/p>\n

In the aftermath, all train services between Essex and London remain cancelled this morning, after engineers to switch off power to overhead electric wires for safety reasons.<\/p>\n

Forty-six services have been cancelled, delayed, or revised across a wide area of the network.<\/p>\n

Elizabeth line services remain suspended between Whitechapel and Ilford, while Greater Anglia has advised passengers not to travel on routes to, from or through Stratford until later today.<\/p>\n

Services between London Liverpool Street and Shenfield via Stratford are completely suspended, while major Greater Anglia routes are affected.<\/p>\n

These include overground intercity services between London and Norwich, as well as lines linking Liverpool Street with Ipswich, Clacton, Colchester Town, Braintree, and Southend Victoria.<\/p>\n

Routes from Stratford to Bishop\u2019s Stortford and Meridian Water, along with the Elizabeth line and Mildmay line, are also impacted.<\/p>\n

\"\"\/The fire was listed as ‘under control’ by the LFB at 8am | LONDON FIRE BRIGADE <\/p>\n

The disruption is expected to continue until later this morning, with normal service resumption subject to change.<\/p>\n

The incident was declared “under control” by emergency services by 10pm yesterday, as crews worked through the night to dampen hotspots and monitor for any flare-ups.<\/p>\n

Station Commander Scott Thorpe said the fire was “predominantly located within an area of grass and shrubbery that was surrounded on all sides by railway tracks.”<\/p>\n

“Firefighters have worked hard to bring this fire under control as swiftly as possible; however we expect crews to remain on scene over the coming hours.”<\/p>\n

LFB is still asking members of the public to avoid the area, as some 1,400 passengers were evacuated from trains that could not enter the station.<\/p>\n

Train operator Greater Anglia said: “The incident involves a substantial lineside fire adjacent to Stratford station, requiring power to the overhead electric wires to be switched off.”<\/p>\n

The incident has resulted in all lines being blocked through Stratford.<\/p>\n

\"\"\/Greater Anglia urged passengers not to travel | LONDON FIRE BRIGADE<\/p>\n

“The fire brigade, British Transport Police and Network Rail response teams are on site, but for everyone’s safety all lines are blocked and there are no trains running.”<\/p>\n

Elizabeth line customers are able to use their tickets at no extra cost on London Buses and London Underground.<\/p>\n

It is not yet clear whether the hot weather was responsible for the blaze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Travellers are experiencing “major disruption” this morning after a trackside fire broke out at London’s Stratford station with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[35884,59,57,58,388,50,557,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-687035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-across-the-uk","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-london","tag-news","tag-transport","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687035","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=687035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}