Freight Train Fire

[Deepgreen]

The National Rail website states that a fire on a freight train at Gospel Oak is causing delays. Does anyone know more?

 

[GB]

4L89 Coatbridge-Felixstowe.

Initially reported as a fire in the engine room but no fire and is suspected to be a power pack fault.

 

[tsr]

66568 (Freightliner) apparently caught fire whilst working through Gospel Oak Platform 2 (attributed on RTT to a problem with traction equipment, but whether that's accurate is not something I can determine). From the odd photo on Twitter, fire does not seem to have spread to the cab so hopefully the driver was OK.

1Z99 is attending. I believe the "GOBLIN" has been open to trains throughout but I should imagine passenger trains have not been in service whilst Gospel Oak was evacuated. Some Westbound services on the NLL are now running with major disruption. Eastbound services (to Stratford) remain suspended.

EDIT: Just seen the above - glad it was not actually a fire as reported.

 

[Steve wakerly]

According to the local newspaper it was a electrical fire, because of the smoke it was enough to evacuate the station. due to the consist being across the points that link the nll and goblin line, another freight train waiting to go onto the nll line and over the points that allow the units to go into the bay platform was blocked. The units terminating at upper Holloway and using the up good line to turn back. The rescue loco was 66420.

 

[HSTfan!!!]

rather unusual for a 66 to catch fire isn't it?

 

[GB]

There was no actual fire, just a lot of smoke.