{"id":17803,"date":"2018-01-12T17:50:40","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T17:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=17803"},"modified":"2018-01-12T17:50:40","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T17:50:40","slug":"huge-blaze-closes-nottinghams-recently-restored-gii-listed-railway-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=17803","title":{"rendered":"Huge blaze closes Nottingham\u2019s recently restored GII listed railway station\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/NorthernVicarBlog_Nottingham_Station2017.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-17804\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/NorthernVicarBlog_Nottingham_Station2017-300x187.png\" alt=\"Nottingham Station\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a>A huge blaze has closed Nottingham\u2019s recently restored GII listed railway station, a fire that quickly spread across the concourse and may have started in the toilets.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image Northern Vicar&#8217;s Blog<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The BBC writes, about the time of the fire:<\/p>\n<p>At its peak 10 fire crews were tackling the fire, which began at about 06:30 GMT.<\/p>\n<p>Flames were seen coming from the station&#8217;s roof and smoke filled the foyer, prompting the building&#8217;s evacuation\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Incident commander Bryn Coleman, from Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue, said crews faced \u2018arduous\u2019 conditions when they arrived to tackle the \u2018severe\u2019 fire that spread across the concourse\u2026<\/p>\n<p>He added that the fire was believed to have started in a toilet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-nottinghamshire-42660181\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For background and news articles see the Nottingham City Council <a href=\"http:\/\/transport.nottinghamcity.gov.uk\/Project-archive\/Railway-Station.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bdp.com\/en\/latest\/news\/2014\/official-opening-for-nottingham-midland-station\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BDP<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernvicar.co.uk\/2016\/10\/09\/nottingham-midland-station\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Northern Vicar Blog<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nottingham21.co.uk\/build_midland_thumbnails.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nottingham 21<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2018\/jan\/12\/nottingham-train-station-evacuated-after-large-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/nottingham-station-fire-latest-today-firefighters-blaze-rail-travel-disruption-east-midlands-trains-a8154876.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A huge blaze has closed Nottingham\u2019s recently restored GII listed railway station, a fire that quickly spread across the concourse and may have started in the toilets. image Northern Vicar&#8217;s Blog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17805,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17803\/revisions\/17805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}