{"id":690048,"date":"2026-01-12T01:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T01:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/690048\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T01:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T01:28:12","slug":"severe-delays-on-trains-to-and-from-heathrow-airport-after-fire-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/690048\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe delays on trains to and from Heathrow Airport after fire | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A fire caused severe travel delays on train lines to and from Heathrow Airport.<\/p>\n

Great Western Rail said that due to the fire at a property near the railway line in Southall, between Reading and London Paddington, fewer trains were able to run.<\/p>\n

Train services running to and from the stations may be cancelled or delayed, the rail operator added, and disruption was expected until 11pm.<\/p>\n

As of 8.26pm, GWR said the fire was under control and trains could run on all lines.<\/p>\n

It comes after around 15 tonnes of mixed recycling caught fire at a recycling centre in Johnson Street, Southall, west London.<\/p>\n

Eight fire engines and around 60 firefighters were called to tackle the blaze on Sunday afternoon, the London Fire Brigade said.<\/p>\n

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A Heathrow Express spokesperson added that “due to a significant incident outside of our control, there are currently no Heathrow Express services running” to the airport. Services resumed by around 9pm, but faced delays of up to 15 minutes.<\/p>\n

And according to Transport for London, there was no service on the Elizabeth Line between Paddington and Reading or Heathrow.<\/p>\n

This was later updated to severe delays on lines from Heathrow and Reading to Abbey Wood.<\/p>\n

It added that the London Underground is accepting tickets via any reasonable route, and that there is a good service on the rest of the line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire caused severe travel delays on train lines to and from Heathrow Airport. Great Western Rail said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-690048","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-london","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115879536732059554","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690048","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=690048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}