How dumb is this? yesterday about 1pm I needed to get a train from Forest Hill to London Bridge to go to a meeting. Arriving at the underpass to find it taped off, I went up the steps to the down platform (the gate was open), and over the footbridge, to be met by two blokes with yellow jackets who informed me the station was closed and I'd have to leave, as there was a 'suspect package outside'. But instead of sending me back over the footbridge, they ushered me into the station buildling, where a man unlocked the outside door and ushered me out right into the middle of the cordoned off area - towards the suspect package!
I hadn't objected as it all happened so fast and I was thinking I'd get a bus (which of course, was not possible). Of course, I then had policemen shouting at me to get out of the area, and was ushered into Dartmouth road, from whence I couldn't get home to Perry Vale area except via the footbridge by the German church.

I'm so glad it wasn't a bomb, as by the brilliant thinking of the railway staff I ended in the middle of it all! Its nice to find out what really happened! Brenda