Explosion at Liverpool Street Station? - FACTS ONLY PLEASE

[dazren]

Just on the radio. Emergency services are on the way. No further details known.

DAZ

[thunderstruck]

and edgeware road apparently?

[maxf]

Tubes closed - lots of sirens too. On BBC website now - although no details.

[thunderstruck]

not a bomb - caused by a power cable apparently

[dazren]

Just announced that it was a collision (must have been with the power cable mentioned above).

DAZ

[maxf]

Where was it announced? Its chaos at Liverpool St apparently.

[benmc]

Edgware road as well

[dazren]

Talksport radio. 1089MW.

DAZ

[zippee]

Small piece on Sky news, lots of walking wounded and one person marked as life in danger.
Kings Cross also been evacuated.
Looks like I got into work just in time, collision happened on the circle line at 0849, I got off it at 0845.

[chim_knee]

The emergency services have been whipping past with their "blues and two's" for the past 30 minutes so it has definitely caused one hell of a commotion.

They were just shutting the station up as I left it (about 9 this morning) and there were LOADS of police around then.

[cotty]

zippee said:

Small piece on Sky news,

link here
www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1188265,00.html

[john_p]

Sky News reporting that ALL underground services (all lines) are suspended

[cotty]

chim_knee said:

They were just shutting the station up as I left it (about 9 this morning) and there were LOADS of police around then.

"staff reported a loud bang at 8.49am"

[craigw]

yeah was really weird, i was walking through it at about 9.10 & alarms started going off & shutters comign down, scary stuff. Still at least I am safe now, sat 2 floors above it!!!!!!!!!!

[pdV6]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4659093.stm

[simpo two]

The BBC still prefers global warming :yawn:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/

[Zod]

I'm just on top of Liverpool Street station. There is chaos, but no evidence of an explosion. There are Police and fire engines, but no ambulances.

The whole network has been in chaos since at least 7.45 when I got on a Tube at Hampstead to start a 1h45m (normally it's 25m) journey into the City. The first we heard was of a problem at Stockwell, then various power surges/failures and then a security alert at Liverpool Street.

[diddyman]

Hmmmmm... No major terrorist attacks in the UK so far... London winds the Olympics bid.... "mysterious explosion" in London the next day...

Makes yer think dunnit?

[cotty]

diddyman said:

Hmmmmm... No major terrorist attacks in the UK so far... London winds the Olympics bid.... "mysterious explosion" in London the next day... Makes yer think dunnit?

and dont we get a lot of our power from the French, the plot thickens

[Eric Mc]

This is beginning to look really bad.

It looks like the incident was closer to Paddington/Edgware.

In fact the Transport Police are saying that a power surge incident has caused explosions at Aldgate, Old Street, Edgware and Paddington. Some sort of electrical "chain reaction"?