Descent
9.30am: Hear announcement that the entire tube network has stopped running. Major power failure. The office are not sympathetic...it’s only the tube.
9.45am: Hear talks of people covered in blood and soot...Liverpool Street and Aldgate East seems to be hit bad...
10.00am: Only two tubes remain stuck in the tunnels. We do not know if the trains have collided.
10.15am: The public address system now says that all tubes have been suspended and all buses too. The news websites are blaming power surges but my manager tells me that there were four bombs...BBC London are appealing for eye-witnesses but no speculation.
10.20am: Reports of a bus exploding...people capturing this on camera phones...smoke and flames coming out of the back. Serious injuries reported...no fatalities yet but this thing seems to be spiralling... Many train operators are disrupted, although we are not affected here except for an increase in security and a horrible cloud of fear enveloping us all.
10.25am: Scotland Yard now calling the power surges “multiple explosions”. The quality of information released to the media is morbidly interesting.
10.30am: All the phone networks are jammed. I have not brought my phone to work today.
10.40am: All mainline train services are being stopped from coming into London...this includes us.
10.45am: The two trains at Aldgate East are still stuck.
10.55am: Now the news are saying three bus explosions – ye gods.
11.00am: Fucking hell. I am told there are fatalities from the bus explosions.
11.30am: We are evacuating the station.
2.05pm: Our staff are back into the station and the report is that there were two suspicious packages, but neither of them turned out to be for real.
3.00pm: BBC London has reported more than once that our station has reopened to the public. This is untrue.
3.15pm: Passengers are now being let into the station. The atmosphere is muted.
3.30pm: Trains are slowly beginning to run from here again, so I am going home. What a terrible fucking day.
The BBC's report on today's events is here.
9.45am: Hear talks of people covered in blood and soot...Liverpool Street and Aldgate East seems to be hit bad...
10.00am: Only two tubes remain stuck in the tunnels. We do not know if the trains have collided.
10.15am: The public address system now says that all tubes have been suspended and all buses too. The news websites are blaming power surges but my manager tells me that there were four bombs...BBC London are appealing for eye-witnesses but no speculation.
10.20am: Reports of a bus exploding...people capturing this on camera phones...smoke and flames coming out of the back. Serious injuries reported...no fatalities yet but this thing seems to be spiralling... Many train operators are disrupted, although we are not affected here except for an increase in security and a horrible cloud of fear enveloping us all.
10.25am: Scotland Yard now calling the power surges “multiple explosions”. The quality of information released to the media is morbidly interesting.
10.30am: All the phone networks are jammed. I have not brought my phone to work today.
10.40am: All mainline train services are being stopped from coming into London...this includes us.
10.45am: The two trains at Aldgate East are still stuck.
10.55am: Now the news are saying three bus explosions – ye gods.
11.00am: Fucking hell. I am told there are fatalities from the bus explosions.
11.30am: We are evacuating the station.
2.05pm: Our staff are back into the station and the report is that there were two suspicious packages, but neither of them turned out to be for real.
3.00pm: BBC London has reported more than once that our station has reopened to the public. This is untrue.
3.15pm: Passengers are now being let into the station. The atmosphere is muted.
3.30pm: Trains are slowly beginning to run from here again, so I am going home. What a terrible fucking day.
The BBC's report on today's events is here.
posted by Jamie at 4:20 PM
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