{"id":546893,"date":"2025-11-03T19:55:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T19:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/546893\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T19:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T19:55:13","slug":"london-bridge-station-evacuated-due-to-police-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/546893\/","title":{"rendered":"London Bridge station evacuated due to &#8216;police incident&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Passengers were evacuated from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/london-bridge\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:London Bridge;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">London Bridge<\/a> station as police dealt with an &#8216;incident\u201d on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Rail operator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/thameslink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Thameslink;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Thameslink<\/a> said on X shortly before 7pm: &#8220;The police are dealing an incident at London Bridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This has recently happened and we are working on gathering more information for you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/southern-rail\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Southern Rail;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Southern Rail<\/a> said: &#8220;If you are travelling to or from London Bridge, you may need to use an alternative route to reach your destination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/british-transport-police\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:British Transport Police;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">British Transport Police<\/a> have been contacted for more information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Around 15 minutes after the warnings were put out the rail operators confirmed passengers were able to safely use the station again, but trains could be delayed as a result of the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Witnesses described large numbers of people outside the station and being held at barriers as police swarmed the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One user on X described people running on two of the station platforms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is a breaking story and is being updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Passengers were evacuated from London Bridge station as police dealt with an &#8216;incident\u201d on Monday evening. Rail operator&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,1221,393,4884,257,45767,175645,175644,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-546893","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-british-transport-police","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-london-bridge","14":"tag-southern-rail","15":"tag-station-platforms","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115487527582856831","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546893","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=546893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}