{"id":601325,"date":"2025-11-29T13:04:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T13:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/601325\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T13:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T13:04:17","slug":"london-underground-station-closed-due-to-horrible-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/601325\/","title":{"rendered":"London underground station closed due to &#8216;horrible scenes&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency services have swarmed on Hammersmith Underground Station in London this morning<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1_JS389203137.jpg\" alt=\"Emergency services at the scene in Hammersmith, London. November 29, 2025\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Emergency services at the scene in Hammersmith, London. November 29, 2025(Image: Nick Soar)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"men\">A busy London underground station has ground to a halt due to an emergency incident. Emergency services swarmed to <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/london-underground\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Hammersmith Underground StationLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Hammersmith Underground Station<\/a> in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/london\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"LondonLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">London<\/a> this morning after reports of a casualty on the track.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"men\">According to witnesses, access to the station was closed and services on the District Line are experiencing delays. Photographs of the scene show emergency services gathering outside the station, including ambulances, fire engines, police and two Incident Response Units.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"men\">A witness at the scene, Nick Soar, said emergency services at the scene were hurrying to help those involved. He said: &#8220;My thoughts are very much with any injured people and the emergency services who will face I&#8217;m sure horrible scenes. All very brave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"men\">&#8220;They were rushing with care to help anyone inside and TFL staff very helpfully and compassionately guided people to the other stations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"men\">The head teacher also reported that entrances to the District and Piccadilly Lines were closed this morning with the shutters down, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/hammersmith-station-closed-picadilly-live-36326499\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"reports The Mirror.Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">reports The Mirror.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"men\">He recalled seeing signs that told travellers to &#8220;make alternative arrangements&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"men\">Transport for London has now confirmed that there has sadly been a casualty on the track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency services have swarmed on Hammersmith Underground Station in London this morningEmergency services at the scene in Hammersmith,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,378,257,594,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-601325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-in-the-news","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-london-underground","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115633132709525296","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601325","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=601325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}