London Tube network closed after 'blasts'

Overheard this, so can’t guarantee its authenticity.

33 dead.

🙁

Firstly my thoughts go out to those affected.

Ken Livingston said in what i thought was an incredible speech ‘this was an indiscriminate attack.’ which i agree with and this should cancel out all racial involvement on here.

I also agree that the aim of this was to divide Londoners, i am not a Londoner but i know that they are good people, and that they will stick together during this crisis, and diminish al Qaeda’s hopes of victory.

The victorious will be us British, because people will continue to walk into London tommorow or the next day, enjoy their freedom.

And the final thing, the emergency services have did a crackin job today, they are heores.

Ben

we don’t give up, and refuse to be beaten.

Except in rugby!

I know what you all mean. I love and admire the great British spirit, that tenacity to fight on and survive that was often referred to in the war as the Dunkirk spirit. It’s really great to see it still exists strongly despite all the changes in society. I’d like to venture that I’m proud we New Zealanders have proudly inherited much of that spirit from the mother country.

Like the Battle of Britain, in a way.

Dave…it’s what is sometimes referred to as the ‘Bulldog spirit’ – we don’t give up, and refuse to be beaten.

Yet the Londoners seem incredibly philosophical about it, and resiliant.

Not to mention the sense of dry gallows humour that usually accompanies such events. A mate of mine working in the Fenchurch Street area has emailed me this afternoon to say:

“Red Kens gonna be livid when he sees the mess we’ve made while he’s away. Up goes the congestion charge again eh mate?”

Something I have noticed, flicking through the various three channels covering this event here, the people of London are all so calm and collected and so incredibly brave. It’s an absolute credit to them. They seem shaken yet undaunted. Similar tragedies in other countries usually result in mass panic, hysteria and wailing, which is understandable. Yet the Londoners seem incredibly philosophical about it, and resiliant.

More power to them all.

Terrible ****ing news. The busses up here in Leeds were being checked as I came home this afternoon from work. So i guess in some shape or form, the whole of Britain is going to be affected and is not just a London event.

P.S. I was tempted to speculate as to who was behind this but that can come later…

Good luck Tim, Safe Journey.

Stewart1a, Steve et al.

Thanks for the support. There is the beginnings of a siege mentality developing. Public address systems within our organisation are advising us to work as normal. Most meetings have been cancelled and we are awaiting news of the recommencement of services. The whole of the Underground will remain closed for today and perhaps several more.

I intend to follow the advice of the authorities and sit tight until advised that the streets are again ours to use. In due course I will walk north until I get to a form of transport that is working. It has been done before.

The emergency services have problems enough dealing with the aftermath. The best we can do to help is stay off the streets so that they can travel as freely as possible. Getting casualties to hospital in the shortest amount of time is paramount. Until this process is complete the best help we can provide is to carry on working.

I will get home in due course and will be at DX tomorrow to wave a camera or two at the a/c.

And who’s to say it’s not the IRA? :confused:

It doesn’t seem to be their “Style” for want of of a better phrase.

As far as we know all my family are accounted for too.

Tim,
If you want somewhere to stay to night you maybe able to stay here.

Scotsman website states 12 dead, at least 150 injured…

Tim, just seen on bbc that Home Secretary Charles Clarke has said the London Underground will remain closed for the rest of the day. I don’t know about buses or mainline services yet, but will post up anything I find out. Good luck getting home tonight. 🙁

The really weird thing was Madrid, it was exactly 911 days after 9/11. And these bomb attacks were a year after madrid!

year since madrid? madrid attack was in may last year thats more than a year.

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Anyway sad day indeed, one of unijured survivors from subway in an interview that they werent rescued or recieved any help from the rescue services. They themselves found a way out of the train and only 2 police officers were present 1 hr after the attack as they exited the station.

The really weird thing was Madrid, it was exactly 911 days after 9/11. And these bomb attacks were a year after madrid!

Very very sad these news, I´m watching Sky News by satellite TV.

Sadly, as we saw in madrid last year and now in london, a big city public transport network is very difficult to protect from terrorism

Very sad 🙁 I pray for the families who were involved in these attacks. Good news for you steward of your dad.

I hope there won’t be any more victims 🙁 🙁 .

It is lunchtime and an eerieness has decended upon the Capital. Public events such as the VE/VJ activities in St James’s Park have closed.

The Metropolitan Police have been giving a press conference acroos the road from me. There is a massive Police presence on the streets with thier Helicopters circling overhead.

Despite no announcements of further bomb blasts for the last couple of hours the sound of emergency vehicle sirens is constant.

St James’s Park tube station entrances are shuttered with signs inside reading, “Tube Network closed due to a power failure”.

What Londoner’s and those of us who work here need is news that hostile acts have ceased, casualties are minimal and that transport services are returning to normal.

There is no place for bitter recrimination, it will serve no purpose. Whatever your beliefs think positively that those affected by these events will make speedy recoveries and those that have lost their lives have not done so in vane. However hideous these acts are the people committing them need help, not fuel to continue to kill and mame.

The mood here is somber.

Well said, Kev.