Explosion at Liverpool Street

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4659093.stm

Tube warning after 'bang' heard

Emergency services have been called to London's Liverpool Street Underground station after reports of an explosion.
The incident has caused major disruption to the entire network with stations across the capital closed.

A London Fire Brigade spokeswoman said four crews were at the scene and more were on their way. There are reports of "walking wounded".

Cordons are in place. A power failure may be behind the problems, Transport for London said.

this is why i take the bus to work.

bbc website now slowed to crawl.

One rumour is that two metropolitan trains crashed, but that wouldn't explain multiple 'explosions'

"I was on the Tube, and they stopped the train and told everyone to get off an evacuated the station."

i'm ok, toby's in france

People hurt in Tube 'power surge'
King's Cross
Passengers were evacuated from King's Cross station
Several people have been injured after explosions blamed on a power surge led to the whole London Underground network being closed down.

British Transport Police said some of the power surges had caused explosions.

Surges took place at Aldgate, Edgware Road, King's Cross, Old Street and Russell Square stations.

A spokesman said there were "walking wounded" at Liverpool Street station but one person's life was reported to be "at risk".

London Fire Brigade said four crews were at Liverpool Street and more were on their way.

A British Transport Police spokesman said that emergency services were dealing with reports of an explosion at 0849 BST on the Metropolitan Line between Liverpool Street and Aldgate.

One passenger, who had left the Tube at Fenchurch Street Station, and walked to Aldgate East, told BBC Five Live that he saw injured people.

"As I walked through the bus station I could see people lying on the ground, black, as if they'd been covered in smoke. There were about three or four people on the floor being treated."

Eyewitness Paul Woloszyn from BBC News, who was at Blackhorse Road station on the Victoria Line, said: ""We were told there was a bomb at Liverpool Street station.

"I was on the Tube, and they stopped the train and told everyone to get off an evacuated the station."

He said staff had said the entire Tube network had been affected, and leaflets had been handed out with details of alternative bus routes.

Another eyewitness, Dorothy Molloy, had been on a Tube train at King's Cross and said "staff just chucked everyone out of the station".

She said staff there had not given any details, but she said tow passengers she had spoken to had said they had received messages saying there had been bombs.

"People didn't really know what was going on, they were just huffing and puffing and saying how annoying it was," she said.

"People don't seem to be panicked, but there's so many police and ambulances coming into the areas. People are just concerned, and some are just annoyed at the delay."

News 24 are saying that blasts are now 'major incidents'

Thought I'd never get here...

A plague on all your fucking finance houses.

A co-worker has just announced the restarting of some train services, apparently from Charing Cross.

Ken's speech may be nice, but right now, it's all speechifying. Without meaning to be offensive or snide and being genuinely a bit curious, what's he doing, besides lifting the c-charge for the day?

Venga otm.

Well, I suppose being edible is a good start...

(Sorry man, this is all kinda shock talk)

They haven't issued the official numbers in Britain, but UK authorities have told the American press that there's 40 dead. So far.

Can we lock this one so we don't have to keep checking two?

10 years ago today.

Tomorrow, rather.

Certain posts on this + follow-up thread make fairly tough reading

Actually, the follow-up thread is probably the single most awful and traumatic thing on ILX. RIP

Yeah, there have been some pretty harrowing events unveiled in real time on this website over the years, but this does seem like the most awful. I can't believe it's a decade ago now; it seems simultaneously both much closer and much further away than that, somehow.

The last time I went over to London before this, I stayed at Liz and Rob's house. I think I remember getting them a Ghibli DVD as thanks. That (and a decade) are about as much excuse as I can muster for being a nerve-rattling prick on these threads. Sorry about that.

I don't think anyone needs to apologise for their deportment on these threads; it was a different time, and a very intense experience. Emotions were high.

awful days. rip liz, hope rob is doing okay

Did Rob ever return to ILX? I joined ILX in 2006 and it already felt like the UK scene was on its way out - this possibly marks the beginning of the fall

I don't know whether Rob still posts on ilx (i thought he did) but he is well and quite a few of us are regularly in touch.

Ten years is just a date but weird that somehow a date brings back feelings snuffed inside for years that you thought had numbed away.

Not sure about fall of ilx and not really what I want to think about right now.

Just happened to walk into the park at the entrance where the memorial is and so went to pay my respects. First two letters of her name were obscured by one of many sunflowers, I think, so it said

(@)Z D4PLYN

Not sure about fall of ilx and not really what I want to think about right now.

Yes who gives a shit about that. Just complete lack of perspective.

Gerberas. I love gerberas :)

:)

Are you in London then?

Yup. Is there a FAP on this week? Or maybe we can discuss on designated ILB thread.

If you all do get together, pass on my regards to everyone. Flying into London the day after still remains so vivid and sad.

ILB FAPs are the only FAPs these days, it seems. There's an ILB FAP thread, so best to try to get something organized on that.

Twenty years ago today.

this is definitely the most traumatic thread in ILX history. RIP

(well, this and the follow-ups I guess)

Can't imagine what it must have been like. I didn't lose anyone I knew at the time in this and was at home the whole way through. Fuck

Still so desperately sad. Hope her partner is doing okay these days x

I wasn't on ILX at the time, but I knew Liz fairly well, originally from Sinister meet-ups and a tape swap thing. Working in Bloomsbury today so going to go across to her bench at lunchtime.

Still can’t read stories about survivors.

I put 20 roses and a note on her bench this morning.

Rest in Peace, Liz.

In 2016 my wife had a brain haemorrhage and ended up in the Neurosurgery hospital in Queen's Sq for months.

I would sit on Liz's bench at lunch breaks to catch my breath, the garden at QS is actually really lovely and pretty peaceful either side of lunchtime.

I got to know it pretty well, I sat on Liz's bench all afternoon and white-knuckled my wife's initial surgery the day after she got admitted.

I didn't know Liz, but I was in central London for 7/7, and wrote on the original thread, so painful.

It was the worst day. And I’ll always remember I was literally flying over hours later for a long planned vacation and meetup with everyone soon after.

Her partner at the time, Rob, is doing fine. He has a new partner and I met up with him most recently for a beer last summer.

I am avoiding all the media hoo-hah today, but I'm down in London this weekend so will go and have a visit to Liz's bench. I like to have a coffee there every so often when I'm visiting.

I remember it so well, I never interacted with Liz but the wait for news was terrible and it hung over all of us meeting Ned while still waiting on confirmation. I'm glad Rob is doing fine. I often think about him and Liz.

it hung over all of us meeting Ned while still waiting on confirmation

It was the worst best pub hangout. Sounds flippant but it's not meant to be. I'm just glad I was able to swing back through at the tail end of my trip three weeks later, if only because at least we all knew by then.

I wasn't at the pub with you all, I met you before that and went record shopping with you. The atmosphere in Glasgow was eerie with armed police very visible and all the bins sealed up.

Mm, that's right. I was thinking of the London pub meetup the day after I arrived there -- there was a brief get-together on the day, but the big one had already been scheduled for the following day, a Saturday. There was a lot of chat, but a lot of silences as well.