Emergency services were called at 7.10am today Wednesday to Dalston Kingsland to reports of smoke on a train.
Several passengers left the train along the rail tracks as a result of the smoke.
Fire service also attended and established that a workman’s drill had overheated and was smoking.
A number of people have sustained minor injuries and were treated by the ambulance service at the scene.
Firefighters have dealt with a small incident on a train at Dalston Kingsland station this morning.
A workman’s drill had overheated and started smoking. Firefighters extinguished the battery and placed it in a bucket of sand.
The station was evacuated.
Fire crews from Stoke Newington attended the scene.
A London Ambulance Service spokesperson said: “We were called at 7:36am today to reports of an incident at Dalston Kingsland railway station, E8.
“We sent four ambulance crews, a single responder in a car, an incident response officer and our Hazardous Area Response Team (HART) to the scene.
“We are treating a small number of patients at the scene for minor injuries.”
This incident is not being treated as suspicious at this time.