{"id":32444,"date":"2019-11-11T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T10:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=32444"},"modified":"2019-11-11T10:00:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T10:00:39","slug":"emergency-service-called-as-commuters-evacuate-victoria-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/emergency-service-called-as-commuters-evacuate-victoria-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency service called as commuters evacuate Victoria Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of rush hour passengers are evacuated from the station because of an incident on the tracks.<\/p>\n<p>The station is now open, however severe delays are expected.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/victorialine\/status\/1193816162376835073<\/p>\n<p>In a Tweet, Victoria Line reported:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re operating with severe delays to all destinations due to an earlier customer incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTickets accepted on Southeastern, South Western Railway, Great Northern and Overground train services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>What happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At about 7:15am every entrance to the Tube station \u2013 one of London\u2019s busiest &#8211; was blocked due to a casualty on the tracks.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to the scene, including police cars, fire engines and ambulances.<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for London Fire Brigade has said a woman in her 60s had fallen on the tracks, suffering an ankle injury.<\/p>\n<p>The closure led to other tubes stations, like Stockwell, struggle to operate because of overcrowding.<\/p>\n<p>The rush hour chaos is likely to impact other commuters throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Words: Dan Branston<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of rush hour passengers are evacuated from the station because of an incident on the tracks. The station is now open, however severe delays are expected. https:\/\/twitter.com\/victorialine\/status\/1193816162376835073 In a Tweet, Victoria Line reported: \u201cWe\u2019re&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":32447,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uknews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}