{"id":724696,"date":"2026-08-02T17:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T17:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/724696\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T17:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T17:02:08","slug":"waltham-cross-fire-halts-trains-in-and-out-of-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/724696\/","title":{"rendered":"Waltham Cross fire halts trains in and out of London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some trains running to and from London Liverpool Street station have been stopped following a trackside fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At 14:57 BST, Greater Anglia reported that a fire at Waltham Cross in Hertfordshire had halted all train movements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The rail operator said the London Fire Brigade requested trains were stopped because of multiple fires close to the railway lines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Services to and from Stansted Airport in Essex, Cambridge North, Meridian Water in Hertfordshire and Hertford East were all affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Further trains would be delayed, cancelled or diverted via Seven Sisters, a spokesperson added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">London Fire Brigade said fourteen engines were being used to tackle a grass fire near Lea Road in Waltham Abbey close by. It is unclear whether this is a separate blaze and the BBC has asked the service how many incidents it is dealing with in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Greater Anglia also said Network Rail officers were on site, &#8220;working as quickly as possible&#8221; to help restore train services to normal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Do you have a story suggestion for Beds, Herts or Bucks? Contact us below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some trains running to and from London Liverpool Street station have been stopped following a trackside fire. At&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-724696","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\/724696","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=724696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}