Disruption at Stansted Airport with cancelled trains and fire

All trains into London Stansted Airport have been cancelled or disrupted on Wednesday morning because of signalling points, Nationwide Rail has confirmed.A fault with the signalling system has affected CrossCountry providers between Birmingham New Avenue and Stansted, and Higher Anglia providers to and from the airport and London Liverpool Avenue.The disruption is anticipated to proceed till 08:00 BST, Nationwide Rail mentioned, whereas there are additionally substantial delays on the M11 and M25 in Essex, doubtlessly impacting passengers.A small fireplace within the airport’s Escape Lounge can be inflicting delays into the safety space, a spokesperson for Stansted mentioned.A part of the airport needed to be closed off after crews handled the “small fireplace”, which brought on a “important quantity of smoke” at 03:30.A spokesperson mentioned it was shortly extinguished by the airport fireplace service and there have been no reviews of any accidents to passengers.Whereas travellers had been stopped from coming into safety for a time, at 06:00 it reopened, however the airport warned there may very well be delays and urged passengers to examine the standing of their flights.