filmed footage of the aftermath of the crash<\/a>.<\/p>\nHe said: “The train exploded into this kind of frenzy; it felt to me as though it was a bomb explosion.<\/p>\n
“Because I thought it was a bomb, I thought it important to get off the train as quick as possible. I managed to open the doors, but only I could get out.”<\/p>\n
Steven Row, who has been a railway chaplain for 13 years, arrived at the scene on Friday evening and did not leave until 02:00 BST and praised workers.<\/p>\n
“The adrenaline kicks in and the training kicks in and that high level of professionalism kicks in, but later on they’ll start thinking about it,” he said.<\/p>\n
Row said he held regular well-being meetings with his team.<\/p>\n
Tom Wootton, Mayor of Bedford Borough, said he was impressed with how everyone came together “in the most tragic situation”.<\/p>\n
“People were helping, it was that type of wartime spirit,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We just had to get on with it, and they did.”<\/p>\n
He said doctors, churches, restaurants, taxi drivers and scouts all wanted to show their support.<\/p>\n
Wootton told the BBC about a GP who had multiple injuries herself, but still stayed to support others.<\/p>\n
He said a lot of people who had to get off the train that evening were not local.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr Peter Knapp was sitting in the front carriage of the train that crashed into the other service.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-653591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}