Fire at Kings Cross

[SaxyJag]

Does anyone know anything about the fire yesterday at Kings Cross - the media seems to be keeping very hush-hush about it.

Hubby spent the day phoning around the country because last night's orchestra's van was stuck inside the police cordon.

[ugly_bob]

Don't know.
There were no trains running North or South from Stevenage because of it :-( which seems a bit strange. You'd think they could start/terminate them there/ closer to London - Finchley park or something.

[sandbach99]

I saw on teletext that it was due to a fire in a nearby building that had cylinders in it which can go off like bombs when heated, therefore people had to be excluded from the area.

[vehelpfulguy]

Search in Google for Kings Cross Fire and then select News. Very easy really.

Story Here

http://www.lse.co.uk/ShowStory.asp?story=CA272 6519U&news_headline=kings_cross_may_be_closed_ for_two_days

[mushroom25]

the fire wasn't so much near the station, but the signalbox is within the 200m exclusion zone set up around the fire scene, meaning it had to be evacuated, so stopping all trains south of Peterborough. The gas bottles were on the 7th floor and at the time the fire brigade made a tactical withdrawal on monday afternoon (there being no-one at risk & the building was too hazardous for the firefighters) the bottles were red hot & expected to fall down when that floor burned through.

Some trains are running through to finsbury park now, but it took time to activate & man the satellite signalling panels remote from the box at Kings Cross (which controls most of the route to Huntingdon) - hence the delays.

[SaxyJag]

vehelpful, I went to my usual news site, the BBC. Apparently (and I couldn't find it) there was a very small piece about it somewhere. It made the local news on Tuesday morning and there was a small item on about it last night.

Considering the orchestra's van wasn't let out of the cordon until Tuesday morning (and the police only made that exception when the orchestra reminded them about the adverse publicity), like I said, there's been very little mention of it nationally.

[Gef]

So, a small fire in London inconveniences a few people. Why should this be national news?

[SaxyJag]

Fire in an area where there was once a biggy ... large area of central London cordoned off around a potential terrorist target ... all lines to the north-east closed ... and there's barely a word in the press?

Even those caught up in the cordon had no idea what was going on.