Tube network shutdown - explosions

[AK]

have heard all the network is now closed - 5 explosions

Hope its not as serious as it sounds:(

[MarkyMark76]

BCC reporting it as a power surge, one seriously injured and several walking wounded.

Other sites are reporting witness accounts of a bomb on board.

Sky are saying a bus exploded and they can't fly there helicopter over Russel square.

??

[AK]

Latest: trains have collided in explosions:o


Many roads are gridlocked & underground is completely closed, as well as some mainline stations

wtf?:puzzled:

[Edited on 7-7-2005 by CK and AK]

[guest1]

Originally posted by CK and AK
Latest: trains have collided in explosions:o


Many roads are gridlocked & underground is completely closed, as well as some mainline stations

wtf?:puzzled:

[Edited on 7-7-2005 by CK and AK]
Guardianunlimited.co.uk has updates every few minutes.
BBC is obviously gridlocked web pages at the moment

[Dibble]

lets hope everyone gets home safe ..... :(

[Harv748]

Have been watching on sky news...police chief reports 6 explosions, both on buses and the tube with numerous casualties.

[VanDaMauler]

Its our 911 , we knew it was coming.

Hope everyones ok.


*******s!!!

[Dibble]

2 deaths reported so far and the Army have been mobilised in Victoria and Covent Garden.

[Harv748]

I'm afraid its far more than that mate...government has already confirmed that...

[VanDaMauler]

Army on the streets in covent grd, 90 casualties, 20 dead and it will go up.....

Whole of london shut down and in chaos.

:(

[Edited on 7-7-2005 by Bubbles]

[Ducnow]

:(:(:(:(

Keep the updates here.

Fooking terrorists :mad:

[Stu748R]

There are some sick b*stards in the world.I HOPE THEY ROT IN HELL.!!!:mad:

[AK]

6 explosions

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4659093.stm

[neilkeogh]

I'm at work in sunny Shoreditch at the moment, it's bloody chaos, army wagons, police, ambulance. fire brigade, bombs, fires, dead people someone here said it's as high as 30 now many many innocents seriously injured.

really the whole area is in a state of total confusion, all you can hear are sirens, and more sirens

Don't sound too good, the army have been mobilised in certain areas, main line stations shut no electricity, no buses no tubes

:(:(:(

[VanDaMauler]

Latest count is 7 bombs gone off...

[AK]

travel info as at 2pm:

TUBE: closed all day

BUSSES
Zone 1 buses not running


TRAINS
Heathrow express CLOSED
DLR CLOSED
Charing X mainline closed
Kings X mainline closed
waterloo is OPEN
Basingstoke station CLOSED
Swindon station CLOSED
LIMITED SERVICE NOW OPEN FROM PADDINGTON
Brighton station CLOSED
Gatwick Express SUSPENDED
Victoria st CLOSED
GNER and Hull Trains services starting and terminating at Peterborough
WAGN terminating at Finsbury Park
'one' services between Cambridge, Enfield Town, Chingford and London Liverpool Street cancelled
Silverlink trains running only as far as Watford Junction
Portsmouth station CLOSED


ROADS
A4 at Baron's Court-hammersmith CLOSED
Wandsworth 1-way closed AGAIN
Dartford Tunnel closed temporarily (accident)
Tottenham Ct road Closed
Aldgate closed
Russell Square closed
Area around paddington inc A5, CLOSED
A501 at Regents park CLOSED
Bloomsbury CLOSED
Limehouse Link Tunnel CLOSED

Coventry - Ring road CLOSED



RIVER
River services running free from:
Savoy (Cleopatra’s Needle)
Blackfriars
Bankside (Tate Modern)
London Bridge (south side near Hay’s Galleria)
St Katharine Docks (Tower Bridge)
Canary Wharf (Canary Riverside)
Greenland (Surrey Quays)
Masthouse Terrace (Isles of Dogs)
Greenwich
Woolwich Arsenal

OTHER
London Congestion charge will not be applied today, but you are advised NOT to drive into london




[Edited on 7-7-2005 by CK and AK]

[Dibble]

road networks are fines, East Croydon station is definately shut ...

[misterpink]

the mobile network shutdown was worrying-trying to trace friends and family at a time like this...finally got a message from my wife that she left for work later and took the scooter to find roads blocked and a policeman telling her worse news than currently on the TV...keep safe.

[guest1]

Originally posted by misterpink
the mobile network shutdown was worrying-trying to trace friends and family at a time like this...finally got a message from my wife that she left for work later and took the scooter to find roads blocked and a policeman telling her worse news than currently on the TV...keep safe.
Mobile network probably shut down to prevent further detonations.
Need to be aware of all packages .
Stay safe.

[KP]

Not enjoying life in the city today. Hear sirens every 5 minutes. I dont know if i can get 60 staff home either. If I get home i need to come back tomorrow.

Unfortuantely the joys of my first track day on Monday seems a bit far away!

Strange eerie atmosphere.
:(

[Dibble]

Kerry, if you can get out as far as Eltham i can take you home .....

[KP]

Cheers Dibble - looks like London bridge may be OK, then ride in tomorrow - early! If not I will sleep in the office.

take care out there.

[Wylie1]

It's strange. I'm based near Oxford Circus & there are less sirens than usual today.

A very sad day. Not looking forward to travelling home by train later (or tomorrow for that matter) - that's if they're even running.

[AK]

MORE UPDATEs FROM NETWORKRAIL (15.25)

The following London Train stations are closed until further notice:

London Cannon Street, Liverpool Street, Kings Cross, St Pancras, Euston and Victoria

GNER
GNER are running services between Peterborough and Leeds at XX:30, Leeds to Peterborough at XX:05, between Peterborough and Newcastle at XX:00 and between Newcastle and Peterborough at XX:30. A shuttle service is running between Newcastle and Edinburgh on the hour every hour.

Hull Trains
WAGN
WAGN are running services between:

Finsbury Park and Welwyn Garden City at XX:00 and XX:30
Finsbury Park and Hertford at XX:15 and XX:45
Welwyn Garden City and Cambridge at XX:00 and XX:30
Welwyn Garden City and Peterborough at XX:15 and XX:45
'one'
'one' are running the following services:

Tottenham Hale and Cambridge every half an hour

Hackney Downs, Enfield Town and Chingford every half an hour

Tottenham Hale and Bishops Stortford every half an hour with a connecting bus service from Bishops Stortford to Stansted

Shenfield to London Liverpool Street services are starting / terminating at Ilford

There is an hourly service running between Norwich and Colchester

Services from Harwich and Clacton to London Liverpool Street are starting/terminating at Shenfield

Services from Southend to London Liverpool Street are starting/terminating at at Illford

There is a shuttle train service between Braintree and Witham

South Eastern
South Eastern Trains are unable to operate in or outbound from London Cannon Street and are running outbound from London Charing Cross

Silverlink
Silverlink County services are suspended

Silverlink Metro services are running between Gospel Oak and Barking only

First Great Western
Are running the the following train services: London Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads, XX:00

Bristol Temple Meads to London Paddington, XX:00

Swansea to Paddington, XX:30

London Paddington to Swansea, XX:45

London Paddington to the West of England (Penzance), XX:05

First Great Western Link
Running a normal service.

c2c
c2c services are not calling at West Ham and are advising not to run into London

South West Trains
South West trains are running normally however are advising customers not to travel into London

Chiltern Trains
Services are only running between London Marylebone and Denham

Southern
Services are running into London however Southern Trains are advising not to travel

Thameslink
Thameslink are running outbound services only from:

City Thameslink to Bedford at XX:10, XX:25, XX:40 and XX:55
Blackfriars to Wimbledon; two trains an hour
London Bridge to Brighton; two trains an hour
Midland Mainline
Midland Mainline services are starting/terminating at Leicester

Heathrow Express
Heathrow Express are running a normal service, however they are not calling at Ealing Broadway

Central Trains
Central Train services will start and terminate at Cambridge

Scotrail
Scotrail have suspended tonight's sleeper services

Virgin Trains
Virgin Trains services toward London Euston are terminating at Watford. Trains towards Reading are terminating at Oxford

[bradders]

I sincerely hope that all those who we see and talk to on this board are not involved, as many work in the city, in either the incident or their friends/families.

Horrible news...my heart goes to all those personally affected with this tragic event

[phoenix n max]

Has everyone checked in ok ?

Awful day for many many folks :(
I've been watching the events unfold since early this morning and one thing that has struck me is the composure and efficiency and apparent calm displayed by so many many people.

[Guido]

My thoughts go out to all those affected by this.

We are one nation and these scuzzers will not succeed in dampening the great British spirit. The Nazi's failed in the 40's and I'm pretty damn certain Al Queda will fail in the 21st century.

I know the namby's out there we hear on the news will say we have to show compassion to all people, but this type of person and persons have no place in our society and although I applaud the PM's speeches on the radio today, I hope he and his advisors now realise that more stringent measures have to be made to ensure the safety of our nation and that includes the apparently lax immigration strategies that let certain individuals into our society in the first place.

A very sad day indeed.

:(

[GsxrAge]

B A S T A R D S :mad::mad:


My thoughts are with the victims

[Bikerchick]

BC checking in... we've been in a state of Major Incident Alert all day (I work at Great Ormond St Hospital) have been directing traffic, calming distressed people, acting as tour guide to the millions of people stranded with no transport, we've treated 65 walking wounded and we are now the morgue overflow for London. What a day. We heard the Tavistock Place bomb from the office and I said that's not thunder...

Hope everyone on here is safe.

To the guy on the black Monster at the Angel, yes the Paso is a weird looking machine, but it's a Duc! BC

[weeian]

i was working up past GlenEagles today, Security up here is unbeleivable, i have never seen anything like it in my life. Seemed to get even tighter when news of the scenes in London got through, alot of Chinook Activity overhead.

Condolancies to all those affected.

I cant understand how people can do this to the innocent, and never will.

/ian

[Henners]

Originally posted by weeian
I cant understand how people can do this to the innocent, and never will.


I guess the problem m8 is that the extremists don't see our attempts at putting western democracy into affect by killing their mothers, children and sisters with 'accurate' bombing raids in Iraq and Afganistan as being enabling like .... :(