What's Happening At King's Cross?

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Kate has just returned from her daily walk to tell me that there is smoke and serious police action in the area. We haven't found anything on news services and it is now 6.55, so anyone have a clue?

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 18:55 (twenty-three years ago)

No idea but my S.O. is stuck on a train somewhere round Welwyn and can't get in.

― Sam (chirombo), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 19:00 (twenty-three years ago)

BBC 1 Ceefax page 436 says:

King Cross is closed due to a security alert outside the station.

And there are delays on pretty much every line

Nothing anywhere else on Ceefax.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 19:09 (twenty-three years ago)

and there's a tiny mention on transport for London's page:

http://www.londontransport.co.uk/tfl/service_rt_all.shtml

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 19:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Couldn't get close enough to see anything, and I didn't have my glasses, but it was all closed off, tons of fruit salad flashing everywhere, cordonned off, and really strong smell of smoke and burning rubber. (Could have just been stalled busses, but seemed too strong.) It didn't seem like a "whoops, central line, person under train" sort of thing. It was either a fire or some kinda terrorist action. Woo!

Anyone have cable news? Or is this a government blocked "nope, nothing going on at Heathrow" type thing?

― kate, Wednesday, 12 February 2003 19:14 (twenty-three years ago)

channel 4 news hasn't said anything.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 19:16 (twenty-three years ago)

I reckon it's a small fire or a car accident.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 19:17 (twenty-three years ago)

We are watching the news too - but as I posted on another thread yesterday, they didn't report on the anthrax scares at Mount Pleasant last night either.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 19:19 (twenty-three years ago)

There is mad siren action up and down Clerkenwell Rd tonight. Is there REALLY nothing about this on the news anywhere?

Have I finally been affected by terror-madness?

― kate, Wednesday, 12 February 2003 20:11 (twenty-three years ago)

There's no info on thisislondon and bbc ldn, not even about kings cross being closed. Very Strange.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 20:50 (twenty-three years ago)

suspect car apparently, my brother just got home after 2 and a half journey (usually takes under half that time) - i can imagine that extra-cautious measures were employed hence the chaos that obviously ensued

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 21:04 (twenty-three years ago)

It took me bloody ages to get home last night, it was indeed a suspect car, fortunately trains were still going through the underground bit, just not stopping. Mind you it happened again this morning as it took Vicky over an hour and a half to get to the aforementioned M.P.

― chris (chris), Thursday, 13 February 2003 09:44 (twenty-three years ago)

That makes sense; thanks!

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 13 February 2003 09:53 (twenty-three years ago)

So anything happening at King's Cross this morning? Interesting-looking hookers loitering looking for the last of the late night revellers? Suspicious smells?

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 13 February 2003 10:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's a great big construction site now. When I was walking home from there the other night, I only counted about four crack whores, down from the traditional dozen or so.

Also, the street druggie action is all about Charing Cross by Cambridge Circus now, or Camden by the station.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 13 February 2003 10:04 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know what caused it this morning, but god help us if there ever is a real emergency there.

This morning the Victoria line was slow anyway, due to the over running engineering works, but we were waiting at H&I for a long while, as the people on the tube at KX were being 'de-trained'. We then went forward, took an age to get to KX, and there was the security alert tape playing. SO we couldn't get off the train, but we couldn't go forward because all the trains were stacked up to Oxford Circus. So we sat in the platform. The driver opened the doors, but warned us not to leave the train, as the station was shut. So, we waited.... and waited.... and then they decided that they did want us to leave the train after all, at least 15 mins after the train pulled into the station. So there was a mass exodus out through the thameslink exit.

I dread to think what the implications of that would have been if it had been a real emergency...

― Vicky (Vicky), Thursday, 13 February 2003 10:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Did anyone else see the story about the woman yesterday who pulled the emergency cord at Green Park because she realised she'd left her mobile on another tube at Victoria?!

― Vicky (Vicky), Thursday, 13 February 2003 10:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Ha ha. I *love* people like that. I was at a party a couple of weeks ago and ended up leaving at the same time as a group of other people. We were in a dodgy part of Dublin and basically had a ten-minute walk through some council estates before we reached a main road.

This girl decided that, as she was a junior reporter for RTE (*gasp* *the dizzy heights of achievement*) and held some sway she’d protect us. She proceeded to call a local police station and told the policeman, in no uncertain terms, that he was to stay on the phone until we had reached a familiar area.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 13 February 2003 10:26 (twenty-three years ago)

And he did. The fool!

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 13 February 2003 10:26 (twenty-three years ago)

(wouldn't pull emergency cord but might phone police for a walkthrough of somewhere very dodgy)

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 13 February 2003 10:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I am an urban warrior.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 13 February 2003 10:30 (twenty-three years ago)

But draw the line way, way before wearing combats.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 13 February 2003 10:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Are you like an undercover urban warrior? like a spy or something?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 13 February 2003 11:14 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm an under-wired urban warrior.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 13 February 2003 11:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Urban assassin spy whore! ('Assassin spy whore' is a great compliment in a/v, after Monica Belucci's role in Brotherhood Of The Wolf)

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 13 February 2003 11:18 (twenty-three years ago)

I will kill you with my lip gloss.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 13 February 2003 11:29 (twenty-three years ago)

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