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Post by GentlemanJim on Mar 26, 2013 19:14:05 GMT
Kept this quiet!
16:29 Edgware Road - Security Alert
It was reported by a Met police officer that 2 suspects had been held with a suspect device on Edgware Road platform 1 and requested evacuate the station and suspend the train service. Stalled trains were cleared and the Hammersmith and City service suspended Baker Street to Hammersmith, Circle and District suspended High Street Kensington to Edgware Road. BTP and the Baker Street DRM were tasked to site for investigation. 16:38 incident channel 24 implemented by SOO. 16:40 BTP & DRM on site. 16:54 Signal Operators evacuated. 16:55 Metropolitan service suspended Baker Street to Aldgate due to blocking back from Baker Street WB and Bomb Squad on site.17:11hrs an all clear given, 17:20 signal operator returned to cabin allowing services to resume with severe delays. 17:56hrs minor delays to Met service north of Harrow. 18:56hrs minor delays all lines. 19:32hrs good service now operating on Metropolitan line.
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Post by GentlemanJim on Mar 30, 2013 20:46:46 GMT
I'm not surprised at the lack of response to this thread as the actual incident was never reported in the press,I say 'the press' in loose terms as it's usualy the Evening no-Standards that does the speculating.
What I can tell you, as I know a bit more than I probably should, is that questioms are being asked in to the handling of this incident by senior LU management.
Watch this space and I'll add to it as and when I get more information.
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Post by railtechnician on Mar 31, 2013 0:47:19 GMT
I'm not surprised at the lack of response to this thread as the actual incident was never reported in the press,I say 'the press' in loose terms as it's usualy the Evening no-Standards that does the speculating. What I can tell you, as I know a bit more than I probably should, is that questioms are being asked in to the handling of this incident by senior LU management. Watch this space and I'll add to it as and when I get more information. Well security alerts are everyday events somewhere in London now, they just aren't news in themselves anymore. For virtually all my 35 year working life in London terrorist outrages took place there. To me it's all old hat nowadays, in the early 1970s I was involved in the tracing of bomb threats as a telephone engineer, more than once I was evacuated from a telephone exchange I was working in, when I joined LT there were various incidents across the network including the motorman that was shot and the various explosions. I was a regular worker in docklands when the bomb went off there, I had been working in the stock exchange area when the bomb went off there although I was not at work on either occasion, however, I subsequently worked inside the ring of steel for months, was regularly stopped and searched, had the company vehicle tipped out, was moved on when unloading at Heathrow, was stopped and searched when the Royal Tournament was on because my gang was seen to be 'armed', we were carrying uncased Hilti drills because we had to carry all our equipment to West Brompton, all parking having been forbidden. I was on the District w/b at Victoria when the bomb went off on the BR in 1991, a female friend was almost a victim in the Knightsbridge bombing of the late 1970s/early 1980s, my next door neighbour had two friends caught up in 2005/07/07 and a former colleague was on the Picc in the same car as the bomber that day. Such events have been allowed to erode our freedoms, it has become the norm to be quizzed to the point of distraction. I gave up bus photography as a result of being accosted by all and sundry (not the police may I say but ordinary people), such is the paranoia that has been spread by the government and the police forces. That is not to say that we should look the other way but the measures I would take are vastly different from what the government has sanctioned and those even more draconian measures that it allegedly is considering. Personally I'd be closing the borders, bringing the troops home to guard them, banning non-essential foreign travel and strip searching everyone (without exception!) who came and went, expelling undesirables and arresting and trying the suspected 2000+ terrorists allegedly resident in the UK, however, the subject is not politics.
Suspected terrorist activity is an everyday event, sad but allegedly true, it's no longer news any more than Boris riding a bike to work is! |
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