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Tom Anderson wrote:
On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Jack Taylor wrote:

"Paul Douglas" wrote in message
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There seems to be some confusion as to which direction the three
trains were travelling in.

Initial confusion is understandable in the circumstances - but you
would have expected that by now the news services would have ensured
that the information that they are giving out is correct.

Indeed. Even at the time, i found the incredible variation in stories
quite comical - there was a point where BBC were broadcasting Charles
Clarke speaking in Parliament, and he said that there were four bombs;
they then cut back to Huw Edwards in the studio, who proceeded to tell
us there were seven! The discordance between what the newsreaders were
saying and the map they had was also rather confusing; they were
showing incident marks at Old Street and Bank to begin with (anyone
know why?), then ditched them but put one in at Moorgate, then
eventually got rid of that.

A colleague of mine said she was in the train just ahead of the one
which was blown up at Edgware Road; she would have been on the H&C
heading east. She might be mistaken, though. I got the definite
impression the Piccadilly train was heading south. There was an
eyewitness account from a guy who was on the Aldgate train; he said
he'd got on at Liverpool Street to go to Tower Hill, which would make
it an outer rail Circle.


The two official press conferences held by the Met and shown by the BBC
also gave different descriptions about the location and direction of
travel of the trains concerned. This is perhaps understandable in the case
of the Edgware Rd incident where passing trains were involved.

The LUL spokesman has stated that the three trains carrying bombs were
Circle line (2) and Picadilly line trains. A passenger in the leading
coach of the Picadilly train has described how the passengers in his coach
were evacuated by the driver to Russell Square, while those behind
returned to Kings Cross. Other passengers mentioned boarding at Finsbury
Park, so this is surely a southbound train. At least two passengers
described boarding the Circle train at Liverpool St and heading for
Aldgate/Tower Hill, although I believe some passengers were later
evacuated to Aldgate Esat which added to the confusion. In today's press
conference the Met Police rep described it as an Aldgate to Liverpool St
train. I have heard eye witness descriptions from passengers on trains
travelling in both directions between Edgware Rd and Paddington, so this
is still unclear to me.

David