- Title: UK: WATERLOO STATION ON HIGH ALERT AFTER TERRORIST ATTACKS IN LONDON.
- Date: 8th July 2005
- Summary: (BN14) WATERLOO STATION, LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM (JULY 7, 2005) (REUTERS ACCESS ALL) 1. GV: TERMINAL INSIDE WATERLOO STATION; PEOPLE WALKING (2 SHOTS) 0.27 2. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) WOMAN SAYING: " We had to close the office and leave because we live at the outskirts of London and there was nothing to be done at work. There are not telephone communic
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- Location: LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
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- Country: United Kingdom
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- Story Text: London's Waterloo station remained on high alert
following attacks throughout the capital.
London was plunged into transport chaos on Thursday
(July 7), with hundreds of thousands of people starting a
long walk home after deadly blasts halted underground
trains and buses were pulled from central city streets for
bomb checks.
Commuters risked being stranded in the capital
overnight as the underground remained closed, though bus
and commuter train services were being resumed by late
afternoon.
Airports stayed open, but tourists were caught up in
the gridlock. One Norwegian couple said they had been
forced to walk for eight hours after flying into Heathrow
airport from Oslo and making it by bus as far as London's
Victoria station.
They had to walk across London to their hotel, and when
they found it had been cordoned off by police because of a
nearby bus blast, they had to walk on to another.
London's largest main rail stations were closed, but
after police bomb checks all but Kings Cross station were
set to resume services, a spokesman for operator Network
Rail said.
" We had to close the office and leave because we live
at the outskirts of London and there was nothing to be done
at work. There are not telephone communications, it is a
total chaos", said on Spanish commuter at Waterloo station.
"It is terrible, we have been walking and walking, we
had to close our office, now we have to struggle to get a
train to go home because we want to be back in the office
tomorrow very early", another man said.
Closures included Paddington, St Pancras and Euston
stations and the Docklands Light Railway serving the Canary
Wharf financial district.
Extra patrols of armed police were at Heathrow
airport, the world's busiest air hub, amid tightened
security as world leaders opened their G8 Summit at
Gleneagles, a golf resort some 750 kilometres (466 miles)
north of London.
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