7.7: One Day In London Page #5

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I asked the driver,

"What's happened?"

And he said, "I don't know,

"but there's people down there

that need help."

And after that,

I jumped down onto the track

and made my way into the tunnel

towards the train.

We've had reports of explosions

at Edgware Road, Liverpool Street.

I've just spoken to the Pic.

They believe they've had an explosion

at Russell Square. Right.

We're trying to establish

what all lines have got

and what they're doing as we speak.

That's all I've got, but it looks

like all lines are having problems

and people are self-detraining. Three

separate incidents? Three, yeah.

Code Amber? Code Amber? Yeah.

Hold on one second.

Code Amber the whole network?

Code Amber the whole network. We're

going to stop the whole network.

All right, darling. Code Amber,

get them into stations and stand by?

Yeah, that's all we're going to do.

OK. All right, mate. Cheers. Bye.

I could see people coming out of

Edgware road with bandages on,

black faces, you know, soot, blood,

there was a guy at the ticket

barriers, some underground staff,

and I said, "Are there

many more people down there?"

And he said, "Oh, yeah, loads.

The train was full."

So I said, "Well...

"What are we talking about?"

He said, "There's quite a few

dead down there."

And I thought, "Right, OK.

Are you certain about that?"

"Yeah, yeah,

there's quite a few dead."

And I thought, "Right, OK, well,

"I need to get down there now

and find out what is going on."

So I went through the barriers

and I was trying to use my radio

all the time and it just,

when you try and transmit,

and it's not communicating,

you just get this beeping noise,

like a "beeeep,"

and that's all I was getting all the

time I was trying to use this radio

and then I was trying to use

my mobile phone.

I was getting nothing on that

and I'm thinking,

"I'm not really going to be able to

do too much on my own down here,"

you know, I've got one bandage

with me and that's all I had, really.

But the further I got down,

the less able I was to turn around.

So I just went further down the track

and eventually got to the carriage.

Everything was unrecognisable,

you know, the inside of the carriage,

the seats all seemed to be gone,

you know, the post, the glass,

everything was gone.

It was just like a tube with blood

and twisted metal just thrown in,

thrown on the ceiling,

thrown up the walls, just everywhere,

it was everywhere, and you just

couldn't make out what had gone on.

And a guy was laying there on his

back, just looking up at the ceiling,

and I looked at him and I spoke to

him and I said, "Are you all right?"

Obviously a bit, "Are you all right?"

"No, I'm not all right."

And he kind of said something along

the lines of, "What's happened?"

You know, "What's happened?"

Right, you know, I thought, "Well,

if he doesn't know, I don't know."

Erm...

So I just said, "Can you walk?"

And he said, "No, I can't move."

So I got down and started

to deal with him, really.

Duty office manager. Yeah, hello

there, it's Lee Osbourne in the NTC.

Hello there. I've been trying

to get hold of you.

We've heard desperate shouts

from both ends

at Aldgate and Praed Street

and Edgware Road.

They're still desperately waiting

for emergency services.

We've got two major incidents.

The emergency services have declared

they're on their way down there.

We're issuing a systemwide

Code Amber. Right...

My main concern were the ones,

the people that were alive,

to try and pacify them,

speak to them

and just let them know that

we were there to help

and help was on its way

and hopefully we'd get them

out of there as soon as we could.

Sometimes I felt as if my mind

was just separating out from my body.

As if I was coming apart,

and then I would just have to focus

and think, "No, I've got to just

hold on, I've got to stay conscious

"and just hold on. They'll come.

They'll rescue us."

It was a long period of just waiting.

This is the bedroom

that James used to sleep in.

Where that bed is now,

there was a bunk bed,

but it had a desk.

It was bought for him while

he was at school doing his homework

so he had the desk there

and got up into the bunk bed.

Yes, so nothing,

not a great deal has changed,

but there's none

of his personal stuff in here.

So what did you do

with James's personal stuff?

His letters and things, I shredded

them. I destroyed them, basically.

I... Other people may find that

a strange thing to do

but I just thought it was important.

I just bought that we had no right

to pry into certain things.

It just didn't seem the right thing

to do, to me, and it still doesn't.

I still think that

it wouldn't have...

I mean, I obviously had

to look through them,

but I... no, I just couldn't.

I couldn't just keep them.

It didn't...

We had enough things to remember,

photographs and that sort of thing,

it just didn't seem to be

the right thing to do.

That was taken about... It was Dan.

Yeah, four days before...

It wasn't, it was two days, it was

Monday evening. That was in Prague.

The week he was killed.

He was in Prague, with his friends.

When it happened, it kind of,

you wait for the phone to ring,

you're kind of hoping and praying

and on the...

I think it was the Saturday,

I'd come here, to Mum and Dad's

on the Friday evening

and they just needed to do something

so we did, we made the posters and

we went to King's Cross and stuff,

putting up the posters and seeing

the other people that were up there

and thinking, "I can't believe

that I'm doing this.

"This is... I don't, why is this me?

"Why am I having to do this?

"Why am I having to put

pictures of my brother up?"

And for other people to be able

to walk past and go,

"God, that's really awful."

I want to be one of them.

I want to be one of

those people walking past

going, "That's really awful,

that's really sad,"

and be able to empathise

from afar. I don't want

to be embroiled in this.

I want my life back.

Please give me my life back.

Please let me know, and I remember

standing on the Mile End Road

and just saying, "Just let it stop.

"Please let everything stop

till I know."

But, yeah.

It's OK.

Well, I'm just literally stuck

in another traffic jam

outside King's Cross. What I did see

was at least half a dozen people

who have blackened faces

and in some cases I saw head wounds,

in fact, I've just seen one young

man who was being treated

had a huge bandage

put around his head.

I remembered one thing hitting me

that makes you think,

"What am I doing?" is that

you're heading toward something

that so many people

are trying to get away from,

so you're fighting through

the crowds of hundreds

to get to the point

that they're trying to leave.

As soon as I got out of

the ambulance,

I made the decision that I'd go

downstairs to see what was going on.

As you're going down, you could

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