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(Richard J.) wrote:

Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
In article ,
(Richard J.) wrote:

I find that surprising, for the Victoria at least. It has separate
escalators even. Also the reports said the rescue work was having
to take place from the front of the train, i,e. Russell Square.

Then perhaps the reports are wrong. Many of them are still
contradictory, so it wouldn't surprise me. As for King's Cross St
Pancras, don't all the main escalators lead to the same tube ticket
hall? It seems to me perfectly reasonable that the people
examining and removing body parts from the tunnel should be able
to bring them up into an area to which the public don't have
access. Possibly the Victoria could be accessed via the
Thameslink station, but I'm not sure what the crowd control
implications would be.

But the access was said to be via Russell Square, surely?

As I said, maybe those reports were wrong. The front of the train is
roughly half way between the two stations according to the diagram on
the BBC site, so it would make sense to tackle the job from both ends.
The photo currently at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4666771.stm shows
emergency workers at King's Cross.

I'm not sure what the photo proves one way or the other. The text says
"Recovery teams are working towards the back of the train to find bodies
and forensic clues in what Mr Trotter described as one of "the most
challenging" of the four bomb blast sites." which tends to the other view.

What we do know is that they cleared the main concourse on Friday to allow
the main line station to reopen and function (more or less) normally.

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Colin Rosenstiel