My Death Train to London



Disaster.. terror..sadness.. anger.. spread through london on Thursday.. I have been trying to write an article about this ever since it happen.. but it's just so hard to write about it without getting it all out at once.

I was so lucky though, and so was my mum and my friend... and my dad.. and two friends who came to london who i was suppose to see that day..






My friend and I had been planning to go to london for weeks, the plan was to spend a day with two friends who had just flown in to london on the 6th, it was so lucky for them that it was the 6th, they left it very late to get tickets to fly here, it was just too lucky that it happened to be the 6th and not the 7th..

Anyway.. more luck.. at first my friend and I decided that we were going to get to london for something like 9am.. we also knew that travelling to london was going to cost quite a lot if we say we were adults, so we decided to pretend we were 15.. then we could get into london with a child ticket for £2 instead of £20..
But then we found out that to be a child and get a cheap day return for £2 you need to be accompanied by an adult.. so i ask my mum if we can go into london with her when she goes into work on the train etc..
My mum told me that we would not get it at such a cheap price if we were aiming to get into london at 9am or before 9am.. because at this time it's rush hour and it's not cheap for anyone because the trains get all the money out of the commuters, so this is when my mum decides we should get the 9am train in., and of course being accompainied by her so we get it cheap..
this stopped mum from going into London at her normal time..
This was a last minute decision, my mum usually gets into london with the rest of the commuters but because of the arrangments i made i changed it for her. Also the scary thing is the dates i chose to go into london kept changing.. first it was the 10th, then the 9th, then the 8th.. but then it was the 7th.. and isn't it lucky i did get to change it to that date?.. if i hadn't of done then my mum would have been at liverpool street at the time of the first bomb..

However.. my dad was in london that day, in fact, he got to liverpool street in time for the first explosion.. in fact he actually missed the first bomb by 5 minutes! He was 100 yards away from it when it went off- he heard the explosion and saw everyone running out. Thankfully he got home safely that day much later as they started to open train stations again.

Anyway.. when my friend. my mum and I were sat on the train she got a phone call from work, it was her secretary informing her about the first explosion, we were shocked by this but it didnt stop us to carry on because nobody really knew what was going on, in fact no one actually knew about it, we were one of the first people to hear of it, it hadn't even reached the news yet. So anyway we got off this train, and switched for the train that goes to london.. mum got another phone call.. another bomb has gone off.. and yet the train we are on was full of commuters and no one new about it. After mums phone call we get up to get off at the next stop, and only then is when there was an announcement on the train telling people about the disasters of what's happened.

Well we get off the train, and i was scavenging for my phone to call and warn my friends who i was going out to meet, i tell them about everything we have heard about it so far, and surprise surprise they no nothing of it yet!
Anyway once i had warned them not to go near any trains Darina and I got a train back to go to our more local town..
We arrive at the station and it's packed with commuters who were either stranded or trying to wait for a train to get into london.. people had been saying that it was a powersurge creating the explosions.. so then i started to believe this ruling out all odds that it could be terrorists.. but then i got another phone call at the station and it's my mum (who was currently making her way home)..


She told me there had been another explosion, but this time on a bus!... I couldn't believe it.. tears were coming to my eyes, it felt like someone was sucking the air out of me.. i don't know why i was so scared, but as she was telling me this, i was just looking at all these commuters loading onto the death train to go to london.. i couldn't imagin how many of them weren't going to be coming back..
Then my heart literally just stopped when i found out this happened in Russell square.. where my two friends were actualy staying.
I tried to tell the train officors about the bus and hoping he would let everyone know so they would stop trying to get into London.. but of course no attention was paid to me. All he said is that i seem to know more about what's going on then he did.. well yes that was the case but he didn't get his arse in gear and find out anything more about it for himself did he?!?!
I found out that everybody on the 2nd deck of the double decker bus dyed except for one person.. this one person didn't get a single scratch on them! Is that luck??.. that's more then luck!

That really made me angry.. just thinking of what i new and then of what i couldn't do about it, i couldnt do anything, i wanted to tell everyone, i wished i could just stop everything so no one would carry on trying to get into London.

I was in shock the whole day, just thinking of how i was suppose to be in london that day.. i mean that morning i was studying the underground map deciding what routes to take and where we will go and what we would do with the two friends we were going to meet.. and then later that day i see the same map on the news but this one was different, this one had explosion icons staining each station, i had never been so scared, mainly i was scared and shocked, sad and angry, for everyone in london, everyone who was trapped or just didnt know where they were going to go, where was it safe? I was also angry at everybody who probably didn't even know about it yet and was still on their way to london, angry at all the lives that could have been saved if news travelled faster.

It's strange at how calm everybody is about this though, generally the atmosphere here is very calm.
It shows that no terrorists can scare us, we are all determined to not be damaged and scared by these attacks, we will carry on living and enjoying our lives, especially for all those people that didn't survive! and i promise you this! We will not be knocked down by terror!


The underground is still closed and bodies are yet still being cleared out, the papers have been telling everyone that there will probably be more attacks soon, because the attacks in london seemed a little small for the likes of Al-Qaeda, previous attacks from Al-Qaeda were always so much bigger, maybe there was meant to be more that should have happened in London that day but it went wrong or didn't work. So anyway, of course this is scaring most people, but it's hard as we don't know when it's going to happen next or where, and we can't stop living our lives because of bastards controlling us from Al-Qaeda.
Creating terror gives them power! I don't want to give these assholes power!

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the bus- here
the underground- here
 


| | Posted: Sun - July 10, 2005 at 05:07 PM          

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