{"id":1156224,"date":"2026-08-18T20:15:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T20:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1156224\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T20:15:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T20:15:31","slug":"major-fire-breaks-out-in-south-east-london-disrupting-trains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1156224\/","title":{"rendered":"Major fire breaks out in south east London disrupting trains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A major fire has broken out tonight in what appears to be the Bermondsey area.<\/p>\n<p>Photos and video show a fire in the same general area to a blaze which hit a recycling plant back in June.<\/p>\n<p>That was beside Bermondey\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SELCHP\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SELCHP incinerator<\/a> as well as near a number of railway lines.<\/p>\n<p>According to the London Fire Brigade around 100 firefighters are on scene.<\/p>\n<p>Travel impact<\/p>\n<p>Rail company Southeastern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southeasternrailway.co.uk\/travel-information\/service-updates\/service-disruption\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">state<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA fire on a property near London Bridge means some lines are disrupted. As a result, trains that call at London Bridge may be cancelled, delayed or revised.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDisruption is expected until the end of the day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA large fire has broken out at a recycling plant between New Cross and London Bridge. Currently some lines are unsafe for the passage of trains.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major fire has broken out tonight in what appears to be the Bermondsey area. Photos and video&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1156225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[280769,748,194526,393,4884,257,314408,16,15],"class_list":["post-1156224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-bermondsey-fire","tag-britain","tag-deptford","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-london","tag-south-east-london-fire","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117118351583701547","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1156224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1156225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1156224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1156224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1156224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}