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Fires shut down main rail line from Heathrow to London during busy holiday travel

Chris Jasper

Photo Credit: All trains run by the Heathrow Express were cancelled this morning.  Flickr.com / Leon Brockard

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The cancellations will cause a huge backlog of passengers waiting at either end of the rail line, and a multitude of missed flights could impact connecting flights throughout the day.

London Heathrow airport’s main rail link to the U.K. capital was closed on what is expected to be the hub’s busiest day of the holiday season after fires and waterlogging damaged signaling equipment. The branch route to Heathrow is shut after water penetrated a line-side transformer at its junction with the Great Western main line yesterday, causing a fire, while a second blaze damaged gear at Acton, closer to London’s Paddington station. Engineers wo

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