original timeline July 08, 2005

TIMELINE and reactions to the London terror bombings:

* 8.49am (GMT): An incident on the train line between Liverpool Street and Aldgate is reported to British Transport Police.

* 9.15am: Media reports emergency services called to London's Liverpool Street station after an explosion.

* 9.24am: Police say the incident was possibly caused by a collision between two trains, a power cut or a power cable exploding. Police report "walking wounded".

* 9.33am: Passengers told that all underground train services are being suspended because of a power fault across the network.

* 9.33am: Reports of another incident at Edgware Road station.

* 9.40am: Police say power surge incidents have occurred on Aldgate, Edgware Road, King's Cross, Old Street and Russell Square stations.

* 10.02am: Scotland Yard says it is dealing with a "major incident".

* 10.09am: Witness Christina Lawrence, who was on a train leaving King's Cross, tells BBC: "There was a loud bang in the tunnel and the train just stopped and all of a sudden it was filled with black, gassy smoke and we couldn't breathe."

* 10.14am: A witness says that a bus has been ripped apart in an explosion in central London.

* 10.21am: Scotland Yard reports "multiple explosions".

* 10.23am: Police confirm an explosion on a bus in Tavistock Place.

* 10.25am: The BBC's Andrew Marr, with Prime Minister Tony Blair in Scotland, says the PM is "still unsure" whether the explosions are a terrorist attack.

* 10.25am: Reports two buses damaged in explosions - one in Russell Square and another in Tavistock Place. Witness Belinda Seabrook said of the Russell

Square blast: "I was on the bus in front and heard an incredible bang. I turned round and half the double-decker bus was in the air."

* 10.39am: All London hospitals put on major incident alert.

* 10.49am: Police say there are serious casualties, but no deaths are confirmed.

* 10.51am: A passenger on a train at Edgware Road says he saw several bodies in the wreckage. A police spokesman says two trains remained stuck in tunnels at Edgware Road.

* 10.53am: Home Secretary Charles Clarke makes a statement outside Downing Street about "dreadful incidents" causing "terrible injuries". He says Mr Blair has been informed and advises the public not to make unnecessary journeys

* 10.55am: A doctor says there are at least 90 casualties at Aldgate.

* 11.18am: London's Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair tells the BBC he knows of "about six explosions", one on a bus and the others at train stations.

* 11.26am: The president of the European Parliament, Josep Borrell, blames terrorism for a "co-ordinated series of attacks".

* 11.30am: Signs on major roads into London warn: "Avoid London. Area closed. Turn on radio."

* 12.05pm: Mr Blair says there has been "a series of terrorist attacks in London ... people have died and are seriously injured ... It is reasonably clear this is designed and timed to coincide with the opening of the G8 (summit)". He says he will return to London within hours, but that the summit will continue without him.

* 12.10pm: The BBC's monitoring services locate a website linked to al-Qa'eda with a 200-word statement saying it carried out the bombings.

* 12.15pm: The ambulance service says there are people still trapped at King's Cross station.

heraldsun.news.com.au

revised timeline strangely dated July 08, 2005 -
it wasn't actually formally revised until the 9th July

TIMELINE and reactions to the London terror bombings:

8:50 am (0750 GMT): The first bomb explodes in the third carriage of a train on the Circle Line, which stretches around the city, as it travels from Aldgate to Liverpool Street stations in the financial district. Seven people are killed.

SECONDS later a bomb explodes on the second carriage of a Circle Line train at Edgware Road Station, west London. The force of the blast rips through the tunnel and damages another train going in the opposite direction. Seven people are confirmed dead.

A THIRD bomb detonates on the first carriage of a train travelling between Russell Square and King's Cross stations, north London, on the Piccadilly Line, the deepest of the three attacks. Twenty-one people are confirmed dead but police and firemen are still trying to recover bodies from the wreckage.

[what is happening in this time between 8:50 & 9:15]

9.15am: Media reports emergency services called to London's Liverpool Street station after an explosion.

9.24am: Police say the incident was possibly caused by a collision between two trains, a power cut or a power cable exploding. Police report "walking wounded".

9.33am: Passengers told that all underground train services are being suspended because of a power fault across the network.

9.33am: Reports of another incident at Edgware Road station.

9.40am: Police say power surge incidents have occurred on Aldgate, Edgware Road, King's Cross, Old Street and Russell Square stations.

9.47am: A fourth bomb tears the roof off the number 30 Hackney to Marble Arch bus. The blast happens at the junction of Woburn Square and Tavistock Place. Thirteen people are killed.

10.02am: Scotland Yard says it is dealing with a "major incident".

10.09am: Witness Christina Lawrence, who was on a train leaving King's Cross, tells BBC: "There was a loud bang in the tunnel and the train just stopped and all of a sudden it was filled with black, gassy smoke and we couldn't breathe."

10.14am: A witness says that a bus has been ripped apart in an explosion in central London.

10.21am: Scotland Yard reports "multiple explosions".

10.23am: Police confirm an explosion on a bus in Tavistock Place.

10.25am: The BBC's Andrew Marr, with Prime Minister Tony Blair in Scotland, says the PM is "still unsure" whether the explosions are a terrorist attack.

10.25am: Reports two buses damaged in explosions - one in Russell Square and another in Tavistock Place. Witness Belinda Seabrook said of the Russell Square blast: "I was on the bus in front and heard an incredible bang. I turned round and half the double-decker bus was in the air."

10.39am: All London hospitals put on major incident alert.

10.49am: Police say there are serious casualties, but no deaths are confirmed.

10.51am: A passenger on a train at Edgware Road says he saw several bodies in the wreckage. A police spokesman says two trains remained stuck in tunnels at Edgware Road.

10.53am: Home Secretary Charles Clarke makes a statement outside Downing Street about "dreadful incidents" causing "terrible injuries". He says Mr Blair has been informed and advises the public not to make unnecessary journeys

10.55am: A doctor says there are at least 90 casualties at Aldgate.

11.18am: London's Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair tells the BBC he knows of "about six explosions", one on a bus and the others at train stations.

11.26am: The president of the European Parliament, Josep Borrell, blames terrorism for a "co-ordinated series of attacks".

11.30am: Signs on major roads into London warn: "Avoid London. Area closed. Turn on radio."

12.05pm: Mr Blair says there has been "a series of terrorist attacks in London ... people have died and are seriously injured ... It is reasonably clear this is designed and timed to coincide with the opening of the G8 (summit)". He says he will return to London within hours, but that the summit will continue without him.

12.10pm: The BBC's monitoring services locate a website linked to al-Qa'eda with a 200-word statement saying it carried out the bombings.

12.15pm: The ambulance service says there are people still trapped at King's Cross station.

news.com.au

Read the statement on the diagram:
Can you believe the authorities didn't
know which direction the trains were going in?

"For the next 30 years, Metronet Rail and Tube Lines are investing some £1 billion per year on new trains, new track, new signalling and refurbished and modernised stations." - Metronet

WHY WEREN'T THE POLICE CALLED FOR 26 MINUTES

Probe on delay over tube bomb alert

By Megan Lloyd Davies And Alexandra Williams

CONFUSED tube staff took nearly 30 minutes to tell police there had been explosions on the underground. They thought the chaos was caused by problems with the power supply, a derailment and someone trapped under a train. And it was 26 minutes before they alerted police that there had been an explosion. Details of the London Underground log from last Thursday were made public for the first time yesterday.

It revealed the first call was made to police at 8.51am after a bomb went off on a Circle line train between Liverpool Street and Aldgate. Staff requested ambulances at 9.10am - but it was another seven minutes before the Met received a call specifically stating an explosion had occurred. Tube chiefs also decided not to switch to Code Red - the immediate shutdown of the network - fearing passengers would be trapped on trains. Instead they called a Code Amber - telling drivers to head for the nearest station and let people out. There were more than 200,000 commuters travelling on the network at the time.

Now an inquiry is to be launched into why control centre staff did not realise sooner that it was a terrorist attack.

A London Underground spokesman explained: "Our initial thought was that this was a big power failure.

"You get smoke and loud bangs if there is a power failure.

"We did everything we should have done. We thought Code Amber was the best way of getting everyone out as quickly as possible. We managed to get 200,000 people evacuated within one hour." - Daily Mirror