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ABCNEWS VideoSource
UK Underground - Station hit by July 7 bomb reopens for first time in three weeks
07/29/2005
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NAME: UK UNDERGROUND 290705N TAPE: EF05/0672 IN_TIME: 10:45:12:18 DURATION: 00:02:29:16 SOURCES: APTN DATELINE: London, 29 July 2005 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST 1. Wide shot of Edgware Road station 2. Staff opening the gates 3. Staff announcing that station is open 4. Commuters in station 5. Pan from Edgware Road sign to commuter in train 6. Train departing 7. Edgware Road sign 8. Commuter Julie Donabie walks past camera 9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Julie Donabie, Commuter: "Quite nervous but obviously you just have to get on and do things as normal as possible. Obviously they have done a fantastic job to get the tube working again so you just have to appreciate their services and get on with it I guess." 10. Shafidz Azhar gets onto train 11. Azhar reading the paper 12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Shafidz Azhar, Commuter: "I must say they opened it pretty quickly. I thought it would be longer so all credit to the engineers working here." 13. Pan from memorial to Howard Collins, service director for London Underground 14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Howard Collins, Service Director for London Underground: "A big occasion for us. I think a little solemn occasion because obviously this is a place where on the seventh of July a lot of people lost their lives and many were injured. My staff are back here. We are running a good District Line service from here - we are determined to get London running again and get the London's tubes working as normal." 15. Various shots of memorial 16. Steve Goszeka, Station manager, walks past camera 17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Steve Goszeka, Station manager: "I rode around on the first train from Paddington to come in here and it was a strange feeling, but really good to have some trains running back on the station." 18. Train departing STORYLINE Edgware Road Underground station in London reopened on Friday just over three weeks after a bomb ripped through a passing train, killing seven people. The terror attack was one of four bombings across the capital on July 7 in which 52 people died. Bomber Mohammed Sidique Khan, 30, was travelling west on the Circle line from King's Cross when he detonated explosives in a rucksack on his back. Since then, police investigators and forensic specialists have pored over every inch of the site, gathering vital evidence. The station showed no signs of the devastation caused by the blast, but at 8 a.m. (0700 GMT), normally the peak rush-hour, the platforms and trains remained virtually empty with only a handful of commuters stepping on and off. Howard Collins, Service Director for London Underground, said the reopening was a "solemn occasion" because people were killed at the site. "We are determined to get London running again and get the London's Tubes working as normal," he said. Julie Donabie, a commuter, said she was nervous taking the tube again but that it was important "to get on and do things as normal as possible." Donabie said one of her friends was killed on the No. 30 bus that was torn apart by a bomb blast at Tavistock Square on July 7.
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