BOROUGH MARKET
TWO RAILWAY STATIONS PARALYSED
DAMAGE TO BRIDGE
(Independent Cable Service.)
(Received July 21, 9 a.m.)
LONDON, July 20,
Two of London's biggest stations, Charing Cross and London Bridge, were paralysed last evening when flames from a fire which destroyed half the borough market spread to Southern Railways' main electric cables near London Bridge. Cracks were later discovered in the brickwork of the bridge. A thousand passengers were stranded between 11 p.m. and 12.35 a.m., when the current was restored. The flames at one stage threatened Southwark Cathedral.
Three hundred firemen fought the outbreak.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 18, 21 July 1939, Page 9
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