{"id":812014,"date":"2026-10-24T03:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T03:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/812014\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T03:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T03:06:11","slug":"stansted-airport-trains-blocked-by-fallen-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/812014\/","title":{"rendered":"Stansted Airport trains blocked by fallen tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Network Rail teams had been expected on site to investigate from 18:30 BST, with disruption expected to last until at least 20:15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Passengers travelling between London and the airport can use their tickets to travel on Great Northern services from London King&#8217;s Cross to Cambridge instead, before continuing to Stansted Airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">National Rail has warned that Storm Austen and Storm Boelo could impact journeys across the whole weekend, with the Met Office warning of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/cm87zg08je9gt\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">heavy rain and windy conditions<\/a> in parts of England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Greater Anglia, the Stansted Express and Network Rail apologised to passengers affected by the disruption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rail services to Purfleet in south Essex were also disrupted earlier, after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c2c-online.co.uk\/media-centre\/latest-news\/barking-freight-train-derailment-advice-for-customers\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">freight container train derailed, external<\/a> at Barking in east London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Do you have a story suggestion for Essex? Contact us below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Network Rail teams had been expected on site to investigate from 18:30 BST, with disruption expected to last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-812014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812014","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=812014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}