SOUTH LONDON TRAIN SERVICES RETURN TO NORMAL

Thursday 24 May 2007

SOUTH LONDON TRAIN SERVICES RETURN TO NORMAL

Region & Route:: | Southern

Passengers travelling to Cannon Street, Charing Cross, London Bridge, Victoria and Waterloo East found services were back to normal this morning, following yesterday's fire in Bermondsey, which disrupted rail services across south London. The railway line near Blue Anchor Lane was closed at 10.30am yesterday morning at the request of London Fire Brigade. This meant the suspension of all services to and from London Bridge station, and the station was closed. The knock-on effects were felt across the other mainline stations during yesterday's evening peak as passengers sought alternative routes home. The exclusion zone, imposed by London Fire Brigade (mainly due to the location of acetylene cylinders near the site of the fire) was removed at approximately 1am this morning. Network Rail worked with the train operating companies, Southern, South Eastern and First Capital Connect to get trains into position in time for the start of services today.

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