In message , Clive D. W. Feather
writes
For those who care, here's what happened to me today.

Glad to hear you're okay, Clive.

It was a strange feeling for me as I was working at home as the news
gradually filtered in. Like many of us, I went through the "I could
have been there" scenario and you think a bout a lot of people you know
(or know of) at times like this.
--
Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

Registered Blue Badge Tourist Guide for London and the Heart of England
http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk

On Fri, 8 Jul 2005 00:20:37 +0100 someone who may be Ian Jelf
wrote this:-

In message , Clive D. W. Feather
writes
For those who care, here's what happened to me today.

Glad to hear you're okay, Clive.

Yes. Some of us do care.

Like many of us, I went through the "I could
have been there" scenario

I think it is the familiar locations that make this line of thinking
even more prevalent.


--
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prevents me by using the RIP Act 2000.

In message , David Hansen
writes
On Fri, 8 Jul 2005 00:20:37 +0100 someone who may be Ian Jelf
wrote this:-

In message , Clive D. W. Feather
writes
For those who care, here's what happened to me today.

Glad to hear you're okay, Clive.

Yes. Some of us do care.

Like many of us, I went through the "I could
have been there" scenario

I think it is the familiar locations that make this line of thinking
even more prevalent.

Indeed, although I tend to find myself in a lot of pretty iconic places
a lot of the time, if you see what I mean.

Because my "colleagues" are people I only see occasionally and who
aren't in one place at one time, I'm still dreading hearing bad news
about someone I know but can't easily "check on".
--
Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

Registered Blue Badge Tourist Guide for London and the Heart of England
http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk

On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, David Hansen wrote:

On Fri, 8 Jul 2005 00:20:37 +0100 someone who may be Ian Jelf
wrote this:-

In message , Clive D. W. Feather
writes

For those who care, here's what happened to me today.

Glad to hear you're okay, Clive.

Yes. Some of us do care.

Like many of us, I went through the "I could have been there" scenario

I think it is the familiar locations that make this line of thinking
even more prevalent.

That's just it. It's particularly chilling in my case - my route to work
is the Piccadilly line southbound to Russell Square. I usually cycle, but
i was thinking of taking the train that day; the weather wasn't great, and
i had a talk to give at work.

I do take comfort from two facts: firstly, the exits at Russell Square are
right at the southern end of the platform, so i always get on in the first
carriage, to save on walking, so i would have been a good distance from
the bomb; secondly, it's unlikely that i'd have been out of bed by 0850,
let alone on a tube train!

tom

--
Baby got a masterplan. A foolproof masterplan.

In article ,
(Tom Anderson) wrote:

I do take comfort from two facts: firstly, the exits at Russell Square
are right at the southern end of the platform, so i always get on in
the first carriage, to save on walking, so i would have been a good
distance from the bomb

I thought the bomb was in the first car?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/h...tml/russell_sq.
stm seems to confirm this.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

ITV news reported last night that one of the bombs (can't remember if
it was the Russell Sq one) was right at the front of the train.

On Fri, 8 Jul 2005 00:20:37 +0100, Ian Jelf wrote in
, seen in uk.railway:
In message , Clive D. W. Feather
writes
For those who care, here's what happened to me today.

Glad to hear you're okay, Clive.

AOL to that.


By the way, Ian, in the other sub-thread the answer to your question
is "Yes, you are feeding one".
--
Ross, a.k.a.
Prof. E. Scrooge, CT, 153 & bar, Doctor of Cynicism (U. Life)
Hon. Pres., National Soc. for the Encouragement for Cruelty to Dogboxes

On Thu, 7 Jul 2005 16:57:37 +0100, "Clive D. W. Feather"
wrote:

For those who care, here's what happened to me today.

Goot hear you're ok.

About 09:45 I heard a loud bang in the distance. I thought it was
south-east (that is, towards Holborn) but I guess it was the Tavistock
Square bus. When I got to Angel and met up with others, the reports were
of a "power surge". The other attendees each had their own - confused -
stories of what had happened.

I witnessed the bus explosion - I must have been standing approx 50
metres away, shuffling in the general drection of other commuters
trying to work out why central London tube stations were shut down
(most of us were assuming it was simply TfL delays or signalling
problems, although there was a rumour of a suspect package and of
course power surges). I was thus stranded in the Euston Rd. area until
about 13:00 until I met with a family member and went to his office
until St Pancras was re-opened.

All in all it wasn't one of my better commuting experiences...

Richard

Richard,

you said you witnessed it,All we have here in America is what we see on
TV
Now I am an American who has been to London 11 times. I usually stay at
the Russell Hotel which is on Woburn.Would it be correct to assume that
if i was Walking out of the Russell hotel and looked to my right
towards Euston that the bus was about one quarter of a block down the
street from the hotel?
Was it travelling towards Euston or towards Russell Square?

thanks

Unlimited Eddie wrote:
Richard,

you said you witnessed it,All we have here in America is what we see on
TV
Now I am an American who has been to London 11 times. I usually stay at
the Russell Hotel which is on Woburn.Would it be correct to assume that
if i was Walking out of the Russell hotel and looked to my right
towards Euston that the bus was about one quarter of a block down the
street from the hotel?
Was it travelling towards Euston or towards Russell Square?

thanks


It was about two and a half blocks north of the Hotel Russell (or less
blocks on the other side of the road), ie about three fifths of the way
from Hotel Russell to Euston Road.

It must have been heading south from Euston and was directly outside
the window of the office I used to work in in the BMA building (rented
out to various).

Since the route 30 doesn't go there, I can only assume that it had been
diverted following the earlier incident at Kings Cross. This hasn't
been explained in any reports that I have seen.