I was on 7/7's deadliest Tube train. I thought we were all going to die
Twenty years ago — can it really be that long? Nearly half my life — I was on one of the London Underground trains that was bombed on 7/7. The most deadly train, in fact: the one on which the terrorist Germaine Lindsay detonated a device between King's Cross and Russell Square, killing 26 people and seriously injuring many more. He was in the first carriage, the one I usually chose for my journey to work in west London. I wasn't one of the dead or injured that day only because the train was already on the platform when I came running down the escalator at Manor House. I crammed in where I could, towards the back of carriage two.
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