Four coordinated bombings hit London's transport network during the morning rush hour — three on Underground trains within about fifty seconds of each other, and a fourth on a bus in Tavistock Square less than an hour later. Fifty-two people were killed and hundreds injured, on a day the city had woken up celebrating winning the bid for the 2012 Olympics only the afternoon before. Phone networks buckled under the volume of people trying to reach family. The response that followed — commuters walking miles home along the tracks, strangers helping strangers out of smoke-filled tunnels — became as much a part of how the day is remembered as the attacks themselves.
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