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Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-655-8604 · July 12th 05, 10:27 PM posted to uk.transport.london

(Colin Rosenstiel) writes:

In article ,
(Steve Dulieu) wrote:

"Roland Perry" wrote in message
y.com...
In message , at
14:25:46 on Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Joel Rowbottom
remarked:
I'm not entirely sure you *can* place things "under a seat" in a Tube
carriage

Correct.

- excepting the fold-down seats on the Picc of course.

Which fold-up the moment you stop sitting on them...

There are *no* fold down seats of any sort in the cars of Piccadilly
Line 73ts...

or on C Stock.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

All of this speculation has been interesting. And we'll see what
comes out in the end.

My random thoughts:

You probably could have left some amount of bomb laying around without
too much suspicion generated if you made it look like a used food
container. You can't now, of course.

I wonder if the bus bomber was someone who didn't get on the assigned
train, and then either took the best target of opportunity or had an
unfortunate accident after? Or took an hour to get up the nerve to
set off their bomb?

The hotel I usually stay at is on Cartwright Gardens, and is within
the primary debris search area. I walk along that section of Woburn
fairly regularly. I was once (6-8 years ago?) prevented from getting
to that hotel for a few hours, since they'd found a suspicious package
in the Garden and blew it up in place. Some others at the hotel had
left baggage, airline tickets and passports in the hotel, and so
missed their afternoon flights out.

My original travel plans for next month called for taking the
Picadilly line from Heathrow to Kings Cross to catch a train north.
I suspect I'll either take the Heathrow Express and catch the 205 at
Paddington, or if the Circle line is back open, I could change at
Gloucester Road to that line from the Picadilly.

73, doug