King's Cross St Pancras Tube station evacuated due to fire alert amid major signal failure at the station

Shutters down after the station was closed

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Tom Marshall13 January 2016

King's Cross St Pancras Tube station was evacuated in rush hour this morning.

Commuters were cleared from the station due to a fire alert at about 8.45am.

A spokeswoman for Transport for London said the station was evacuated and closed as a precaution, but investigators found there was no fire.

The emergency piled on the misery for commuters after a signal failure at King's Cross had caused the suspension of several lines during this morning's rush hour.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Just been evacuated from Kings Cross Underground. A drill from what I can gather... Still. No work for a bit! <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://t.co/LX1KSacqMO" class="body-link" data-vars-item-name="BL-3155031-https://t.co/LX1KSacqMO" data-vars-event-id="c23">pic.twitter.com/LX1KSacqMO</a> — James Mead (@SupremeBeingJay) <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/SupremeBeingJay/status/687195063596789760" class="body-link" data-vars-item-name="BL-3155031-https://twitter.com/SupremeBeingJay/status/687195063596789760" data-vars-event-id="c23">January 13, 2016</a>

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The station started to reopen at about 9am although Underground trains were still not stopping.