Commuters have been plunged into chaos after huge fires ripped through the shrubbery near the railway at one of Britain’s busiest train stations today.
Stratford station in London was evacuated and temporarily shut at 7pm as 60 firefighters and eight fire engines rushed to tackle the blazes.
Video footage shared online shows several bushfires involving trees, dry grass and shrubbery on the railway billowing thick black smoke into the sky.
London Fire Brigade said crews and the British Transport Police were evacuating hundreds of passengers from trains at a standstill next to the flames.
The inferno has caused commuter chaos across Transport for London
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