A MAJOR blaze has devastated a railway warehouse. About 50 fire fighters battled for seven hours to put out the train fire on the Transfesa industrial estate, Paddock Wood.

The fire broke out as dozens of fridges and freezers were being unloaded from the carriage of one of two goods trains inside the warehouse, at 10.15am on Saturday.

Assistant divisional officer Jeff Rook said later: "A railway carriage full of white goods was being unloaded into the warehouse. The carriage or the white goods then caught fire."

Two of the train's 20 carriages went up in flames inside the 200 metre by 200 metre warehouse, on railway sidings.

In the early afternoon, fire fighters called a meeting with Railtrack officials and managers of the site to break the train, single out the affected carriages and make sure the fire was out.

Fire fighters from Maidstone, Larkfield, Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells, Medway and a specialist unit from Sittingbourne were at the scene. No-one was injured in the fire. The cause is being investigated.