The 7/7 Bombing: Survivors' Stories (ITV, 9pm)

'THE driver’s dead, you’ve got no guard. We’re stuck down in the underground. I think, ‘George this could be it mate – this could be where it all ends for you’,” says 7/7 survivor George Roskilly during this documentary.

On the morning of July 7, 2005 four British-born suicide bombers launched an attack on London’s transport system. Within an hour 52 people were killed and over 750 injured in the deadliest attack on the capital since the Blitz.

Survivors' Stories focus on the hour between the first three explosions on the tube system at 8.50am and the final explosion just before 9.50am on a bus in Tavistock Square.

On a Circle line train, which was devastated by a bomb at Edgware Road, passenger Jacqui Putnam describes the immediate aftermath of the explosion, as the windows were blown out. She says: “The air was full of tiny shards of glass – and they glittered.”

Tim Coulson was travelling on a tube train going in the opposite direction and was among a group of passers-by who broke out of their train to try to help those injured by the blast. He says: “What I did see immediately on the floor was a passenger lying conscious on the floor. A gentleman I now know is David.”

Having made David as comfortable as he could, Tim was then confronted by the sight of a charred corpse – which he later found out was the remains of the bomber Mohammed Sidique Khan.

At almost the same time, also on the Circle line, another bomb detonated in the second carriage of a train just outside Aldgate. Thelma Stober and Kira Mason were both in the bombed compartment. Thelma was blown through the doors of the still moving train and landed between the tracks. She says: “I opened my eyes and found myself on the train track partially underneath the train – partly outside. I could see people on the floor of the train and I could see people lying around. People were screaming and crying.”

Kira was just three feet away from the bomb and found her left arm trapped in the tangled remains. She says: “I think I’m in this terrible dream. It’s very quiet, I can’t hear anything and I can’t move. Then in this dream this voice comes and says, ‘What’s your name?’’

Stephen entered the bombed carriage, and tried to look after Carrie Taylor, a young woman who had been blown backwards onto the laps of two passengers still in their seats. He says: “She seemed relatively peaceful. Every now and again she would try to communicate. I would just do my best to keep her calm and tell her everything was okay – and that we would be out of here soon.”

When the emergency services reached Aldgate they discovered that Carrie had died as result of her injuries. Her father John says: “You were hoping beyond all hope that she was stuck somewhere – helping other people. It was ten days after the event that Carrie was formally identified.”

A third blast 70ft below ground on the Piccadilly Line near Russell Square killed 26 passengers and injured more than 340.

While the emergency services tended to injured passengers underground, hundreds of thousands of commuters sought alternative routes to work. Anthony Fatayi-Williams, a young executive originally from Kenya, was on the top deck of the number 30 bus when it was destroyed by a bomb outside the British Medical Association in Tavistock Square, and was killed along with ten others. Anthony’s mother Marie says she forgives the bomber, despite the fact he killed her son. She says: “We are all different but that should not make a difference. Whether you are black, white, grey, red, yellow, Muslim, Christian, Islam, Agnostic, and whatever – we are all having the same blood running through our veins and that’s what makes us human.”

Viv Hardwick