In message .com, Paul
Douglas writes

Additionally, I was watching the BBC last night and they had a diagram
of the Bus heading eastwards along Euston Road towards Kings Cross
before being diverted to Tavistock Square, but others have reported
that the bus came from Kings Cross?

The BBC website is unequivocal:

A Transport for London spokeswoman said the bus was a number 30,
travelling from Hackney to Marble Arch. It was following a
diversion from its normal route.

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Paul Terry

On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 12:10:52 +0100, Paul Terry
wrote:

In message .com, Paul
Douglas writes

Additionally, I was watching the BBC last night and they had a diagram
of the Bus heading eastwards along Euston Road towards Kings Cross
before being diverted to Tavistock Square, but others have reported
that the bus came from Kings Cross?

The BBC website is unequivocal:

A Transport for London spokeswoman said the bus was a number 30,
travelling from Hackney to Marble Arch. It was following a
diversion from its normal route.


The destination board on the bus clearly shows "Hackney Wick" suggesting
it was travelling from Marble Arch to Hackney. This would make sense as
if it was on diversion because of Kings X you wouldn't be travelling
southbound from Euston to Russell Square - it would be after KX if you
were headed for Marble Arch. On the other hand if the bus was going to
Hackney, why was the diversion southbound, wouldn't you head up Eversholt
Street from Euston?

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In message op.stlq76b0w13aik@stephen, Dockland
writes

The destination board on the bus clearly shows "Hackney Wick"
suggesting it was travelling from Marble Arch to Hackney.

Ah - I hadn't seen that. In the photos I've seen the front destination
blind appears to be hanging out and thus unreadable.

This would make sense as if it was on diversion because of Kings X it
would be after KX if you were headed for Marble Arch.

Yes. I think you are right. I initially assumed the diversion was
because of a build-up of westbound traffic because of Edgware Road, but
a diversion to avoid King's X for eastbound traffic is more likely. In
fact, I've now seen an eye-witness account on the BBC website that says
the police were directing all eastbound traffic on the Euston Road (and
pedestrians) south down through Tavistock Square in order to avoid
King's Cross.

It is awful to think that if the police hadn't diverted the traffic, the
bus would quite likely have blown up outside King's Cross, just as the
evacuation and rescue was proceeding there.

Even more awful is to think that that was what the bomber intended - and
hence perhaps the reports of the bomber becoming increasingly agitated
as he realised that the time was near but the destination had not been
reached.

it would be after KX if you were headed for Marble Arch. On the other
hand if the bus was going to Hackney, why was the diversion
southbound, wouldn't you head up Eversholt Street from Euston?

Probably longer to have to go via Camden Town. I imagine that Russell
Square was not closed at this stage - the tube station is not in the
square itself. Still I wasn't there (thankfully) and this is all
speculation.

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Paul Terry

In article op.stlq76b0w13aik@stephen, Dockland
writes
The destination board on the bus clearly shows "Hackney Wick"
suggesting it was travelling from Marble Arch to Hackney. This would
make sense as if it was on diversion because of Kings X you wouldn't
be travelling southbound from Euston to Russell Square - it would be
after KX if you were headed for Marble Arch.

At 9:30 nothing was moving eastwards past Kings Cross because of the
people in the street and the emergency services presence. On the other
hand, traffic *was* still moving westbound.

A few minutes later it had stopped. By the time I heard the bus
explosion, about 10 or 15 buses were queued from Thameslink station back
along the Pentonville Road towards Angel.

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