{"id":57920,"date":"2026-08-02T18:52:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T18:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/waltham-cross-fires-halt-trains-between-london-and-stansted-airport\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T18:52:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T18:52:54","slug":"waltham-cross-fires-halt-trains-between-london-and-stansted-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/waltham-cross-fires-halt-trains-between-london-and-stansted-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Waltham Cross fires halt trains between London and Stansted Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The London Fire Brigade said 14 engines were used to tackle the grass fire, near Lea Road in Waltham Abbey, which is near Waltham Cross.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Just after 17:00 it said the fire was now under control. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The LFB reported that at the height of the fire, about 14 hectares (35 acres) of grassland was alight. Crews used water backpacks and wildfire beaters to tackle it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Greater Anglia also said Network Rail officers were on site, &#8220;working as quickly as possible&#8221; to help restore train services to normal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Smoke has also affected traffic on the M25, the fire service said, with National Highways adding, one lane of the anti-clockwise carriageway between Enfield and Waltham Abbey was shut for investigation and repairs due to the fire. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Do you have a story suggestion for Beds, Herts or Bucks? Contact us below.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cr49q3drdpxo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The London Fire Brigade said 14 engines were used to tackle the grass fire, near Lea Road in Waltham Abbey, which is near Waltham Cross. Just after 17:00 it said the fire was now under control. The LFB reported that at the height of the fire, about 14 hectares (35 acres) of grassland was alight. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[3115,1282,410,7866,141,5469,2416,16197],"class_list":["post-57920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk","tag-airport","tag-cross","tag-fires","tag-halt","tag-london","tag-stansted","tag-trains","tag-waltham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57922,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57920\/revisions\/57922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}