7/7 2005 - 5 years on...

[pickledseal]

A tribute to the memory of the 52 innocent people going about the usual daily business who died in the suicide attacks on London.

RIP

 

[canveyshrimper]

I prefer the Israeli view that of homicide attacks. I must say I boarded the tube with some trepidation this morning with the memory of the attacks still vivid in the memory. They followed a day of great joy for London as the previous day our capital city had been awarded the 2012 Olympics.

RIP

 

[MK Shrimper]

I was in London today and it struck me of the date when I was on the Tube. RIP indeed.

 

[davewebbsbrain]

I watched the tributr on TV Monday night....very sad viewing

 

[Napster]

I was on the circle line that day, and our train stopped at Bayswater - one stop behind Edgware Road, where a bomb went off. I missed a connection at Embankment.

I still remember even now, the 2 hours on the tube- a few people had reception on their phones, and said thered been a bomb. The driver just said network problems. Eventually, we all were led off the front of the tube, down the tracks and out the station. I genuinely didnt think anything was wrong at that point. I went into a shop for a drink - and only then saw the news. I phoned work from a phonebox, (no reception) and they were crying on the other end, as I was the only person not to have checked in - and my missus said I left on time. My mum and missus couldnt reach me until a few hours later - awful now just to think about it. There isnt a minute goes by when I think what if I got on the tube I just missed.
RIP.

 

[Hotman]

I'm forever thankful that my meeting that day was postponed by half hour, and hence I was evacuated at Ealing Broadway from the train I was on, rather than being caught up in it.

RIP

 

[Southminster_Shrimper]

I remember that day very well. It was one of the rare occassions I went into the office when I resided in lovely Slough. Fortunately I got in early so was already at my desk for about an hour before the first bomb. Initially it was rumoured to be a major electrical failure on the underground. Then as various other rumours started coming out something didnt seem right. The constant sound of sirens which is not uncommon working near a hospital but there seemed more than usual that day near Aldgate. Mobile phones were getting network busy, the work internet started to grind to a halt.....then we heard that bombs had gone off all over the city along with the usual bomb alerts elsewhere. The transport network was shutdown and even if we wanted to we were being advised that we should not leave the building.

Later that morning, we were advised that if we wanted to we could attempt to go home. Having no way to get to Paddington I opted to walk to Waterloo. Having heard there were some trains running I hoped for the best. So off we went separating with some colleagues who went to London Bridge I think it was. All the noise was just of police, ambulance, fire engine sirens that day. There was little other noise that was recognisable.

Fortunately I made it to Waterloo and got a train collapsed in the seat and wondered what really had gone on today other than what we had heard. As the train approached Windsor a number of police officers boarded the train searching for more bombs before they would let it into the station.

It wasnt until I got home that day and switched on the TV did I realise what had gone on. I was physically and mentally drained. But I was lucky.....I made it home that day.

A few weeks later there was a book of condolence in the park next to Embankment tube. I read some of the moving messages that had been written and added a message of my own.

RIP to all those innocent victims who never made it home that day.

 

[EastStandBlue]

I was in London today and it struck me of the date when I was on the Tube. RIP indeed.

For the Rail Freight Conference by any chance?

Good to see tributes made across the locations today. Mood was very sombre in certain places.

 

[BrettieAngell]

R.I.P. the victims of this awful awful day!

 

[MK Shrimper]

For the Rail Freight Conference by any chance?

Good to see tributes made across the locations today. Mood was very sombre in certain places.

No mate nothing to do with that.

 

[osymandus]

RIP , at the time i was working with an ex tube guy , and when teh first reports came in he recognised the code word's straight away

 

[leeblue]

I was laying next to the pool in Ibiza with the wife when someone came and told us the news, we were straight on the phone to friends and family in london, my wife works in the city and scary to think she could have been one of the unlucky ones RIP

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

I was working for London Underground at the time, in a building next to the MI6 building. It was an eery, surreal day - we were told not to use the computer and telephones unless there was an emergency; and the whole day was dominated by the wail of sirens and the buzz of helicopters going past my office. As I later discovered, a mate of mine was on the Piccadilly Line train that got hit; but he was relatively lucky, suffering only a perforated ear-drum as a result of the shockwave from the blast.

A horrible act carried out by foolish, easily led men. I pray that we never see its like again.