What happened at Southampton yesterday evening?

[bluebottle]

An ex colleague of mine wants to know why the police were all over Southampton Central last night (20 July). I can't find any news references to anything going off but apparently there were armed response officers everywhere. Train searches and platform evacuations too. Info is second hand so may not be totally accurate but something was going on.

Anyone know?

 

[thefab444]

Well, I passed through at 8.30pm and it was pretty quiet, presumably this incident occured later on?

 

[bluebottle]

I'm going by Facebook posts, here are the two relevant ones.

"Does anyone know what happened at Southampton train station last night? Lots of armed police was a suprising sight, and the news sites are saying nothing!"

"Definitiely not a suicide, they were stopping all the trains, evacuating the platform, and Caz's train had armed police running up and down it searching the toilets. I've seen police at the station before, but this was NOT run of the mill!
about an hour ago"

I've asked when this was, I'll update when I find out.
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1915 he says. At that time the station was closed with armed police and sniffer dogs everywhere.

 

[Bayum]

Terrorist incident or something similar im guessing

 

[Mojo]

Nothing on Twitter either, only people asking what's going on

 

[bluebottle]

Only news item remotely related is a suspicious death in a Southampton flat. But that was saturday.

 

[Dennis]

I expect they had found a trainspotter :roll:

 

[Bittern]

I did a Google search and the only relevant result I found was this thread.

 

[Hampshire Unit]

I can answer this one. BTP requested that 2B68 1752 Pool to Waterloo be held at Southampton in connection with a knife crime (stabbing) which had taken place in the Bournemouth area. Train arrived at 1918 and departed 1939. Hope this helps.

 

[The Snap]

I expect they had found a trainspotter :roll:

"OMG that man's got a camera and a notebook - he must be a terrorist! Get hiiiiiimmmm!"

:roll:

I can answer this one. BTP requested that 2B68 1752 Pool to Waterloo be held at Southampton in connection with a knife crime (stabbing) which had taken place in the Bournemouth area. Train arrived at 1918 and departed 1939. Hope this helps.

And this required armed police? I didn't think armed police were needed to dis-arm someone with a knife?

 

[bluenoxid]

Armed police are used where neccesary. If someone has just stabbed someone, are they likely to do it again? Yes they are and the guns are sent in to reduce the chance of it happening. We have enough knife deaths as it is at the moment.

 

[bluebottle]

I can answer this one. BTP requested that 2B68 1752 Pool to Waterloo be held at Southampton in connection with a knife crime (stabbing) which had taken place in the Bournemouth area. Train arrived at 1918 and departed 1939. Hope this helps.

Thanks, I'll pass that on.

 

[fgwrich]

I can answer this one. BTP requested that 2B68 1752 Pool to Waterloo be held at Southampton in connection with a knife crime (stabbing) which had taken place in the Bournemouth area. Train arrived at 1918 and departed 1939. Hope this helps.

Yikes... Had heard nothing of this yet i was back in eastleigh on monday...

though i can tell you what happend last night at sotton central...nothing as major as this...more happier actually...

WCRC 37706 rattled the station on its way back from Motola to Southall...