'Just a bit of metal': Trains halted after false land mine alarm (From This Is Local London)

'Just a bit of metal': Trains halted after false land mine alarm near North Sheen station

3:17pm Thursday 14th March 2013 in News By Rachel Bishop

A suspected World War Two land mine spotted near North Sheen station today has turned out to be a piece of scrap metal.

The bomb squad, British Transport Police (BTP) and the Metropolitan Police investigated the suspicious object at 12.30pm, but declared it “non-suspicious” at 1.30pm.

Train services ground to a halt following reports of a bomb, with many trains from London Waterloo being cancelled.

A BTP spokesman said: “We were called at around 12.30pm to reports of a land mine close to the station.

We inspected the item and it was deemed non-suspicious.

"It looks like it was just a bit of scrap metal – this was confirmed at 1.30pm. The line was re-opened a 1.30pm.”