Gary Barlow still won’t travel on the Tube after being caught on a train 30ft from Edgware Road blast in 7/7 terror bombings which killed 52 in 2005
- Gary Barlow was on circle line train pulling into Edgware Road on 7 July 2005
- His train crashed into the westbound train that was blown up at 8.49am
- Barlow said he was trapped on the train for an hour with crying passengers
- He said: ‘Our carriage filled with dust and smoke and everyone was dusty’
Gary Barlow has revealed he is still too terrified to take the tube nine years after he was caught up in the 7/7 bombings.
The Take That singer was 30ft away from a devastating bomb blast on a circle line train pulling out of Edgeware Road at 8.49am on 7 July 2005.
His train eastbound was entering the station and crashed into the westbound train that was blown up.
Gary Barlow (left in March) has revealed he is still too terrified to take the tube because he was caught up in the 7/7 bombings. Right: A wounded person being treated
He told The Sun: ‘When the bomb went off it was just the most unbelievable force and were all kind of on top of one another. It had taken our legs from under us. It was almost like the force of it was in your jaw, it was so powerful.’
Barlow said he was trapped on the train for an hour as petrified passengers screamed and cried around him.
‘It was really terrifying. Our carriage filled with dust and smoke and everyone was dusty and black. And we got off there really not knowing that there was anything else happening around.
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‘It wasn’t until I really got home and saw the news, I was like, “Oh my goodness, we were like ten feet away”.’
Barlow said never takes the tube due to the trauma.
The series of terrorist blasts which rocked the capital on July 7, 2005 killed 56 people and injured more than 700 on London’s Tube and bus network.
Wounded from Edgware Road Tube Station being treated at the London Hilton Edgware
The capital was thrown into chaos as three co-ordinated attacks tore through Tube carriages and a bus packed with commuters was ripped apart in a fourth explosion.
Suicide bombers Mohammed Sidique Khan, 30, Shehzad Tanweer, 22, Hasib Hussain, 18, and Jermaine Lindsay, 19, carried out the attack 12 years ago.
Travelling from Luton, they took a train to King’s Cross in London, hugged and separated to carry out the atrocities.
Within three minutes of 8.50am, Tanweer detonated his bomb at Aldgate, Khan set his device off at Edgware Road and Lindsay blew himself up between King’s Cross and Russell Square. Hussain detonated his device on a bus at Tavistock Square at 9.47am.
The capital was thrown into chaos as three co-ordinated attacks tore through Tube carriages and a bus packed with commuters was ripped apart in a fourth explosion
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