Police, Paramedics and specialist sniffer dogs and the LFB have all been called to Paddington station following the discovery of a suspicious package this evening.
It is understood that the suspicious package has been located on platform three of the busy station at around 7pm on Tuesday evening.
The platform and a wider area around the package has been evacuated whilst specialists carry an examination using sniffer dogs and a portable X ray machine.
A number of train services in and out of Paddington are understood to have been effected by the lockdown.
British transport police have been approached a comment.