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[email protected] · July 13th 05, 02:01 PM posted to uk.transport.london

Paul Terry wrote:
In message .com,
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The 311 train on Piccadilly.... you need 20 minutes to get that train?
Hell ... do you need 15 minutes to get to the 311 if you were on the
Circle Line platform when the 204 and 216 arrived?

I can't believe he got there in 5 minutes and then waited for a couple
of trains to pass so he could get one that would blow up about 45
seconds outside of the station.

As discussed in this newsgroup last week, the service had been suspended
on the Piccadilly line immediately prior to the bomb, due to a fire
alert incident at Caledonian Road. It is quite likely that 311 was the
first train through after a long gap in service.

Excellent point. If that is the case then I suppose the intended
detonation point was somewhere further south like Piccadilly Circus or
Green Park. Piccadilly Circus is about 8 minutes out and you would be
leaving the station if you caught the 8:41 or entering the station if
you caught the 8:43 from KXSP.

Piccadilly Circus would be better for international recognition, but I
wonder what the track configuration is there v. Green Park. I mention
this because the other two blastswere both near junctions about 10
minutes out from KXSP.

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Paul Terry