The farmer took the couple of six passengers after the attack on the train

A couple who live minutes from Huntingdon station have described how they took train passengers running from a knife attack.

One of the six people who knocked on Jan and Les Sears’ door had blood on his clothes, while the other was “not involved”.

The couple did not find out about the attack in Doncaster at the Cross Service in London until they found a father and his two children, two friends and a young woman outside their front door.

Grs Sars said: “We are just everyday people who can help anyone, you don’t see someone suffering, someone is scared, you help them.”

They provide a place of safety until the relatives of the passengers arrive to collect them.

Following the attack, Anthony Williams, 32, was arrested and appeared in Pethborough magistrates’ court charged with 11 counts of attempted murder.

He was also charged with possession of a bladed article and one count of actual bodily harm in connection with an alleged assault on a police officer in custody.

The passengers were traveling in the capital when the attack happened shortly after the LNER train passed through Peterborough.

Police received the first calls from train passengers about the incident at 19:39 GMT and shortly after the train was diverted to Huntingdon, an unscheduled stop on the route.

Emergency services took 10 people to add AddenBrooke’s hospital and one person later went to the hospital for treatment.

On Saturday night, the couple said they could hear the doorbell of their flat ring and grs sears urged her husband to see who was waiting outside.

He said: “Les opened the door and let them in.

“There were six people – a man and his two children and two girls and a girl who was on her own – and they were told that there was a train and they could run as far as they could.”

The couple invited the passengers to their huntingdon home and offered them food and drink.

Mrs Sars said: “One of the girls had blood on her and she was quite upset.

“Dad is very worried, obviously, he wants to make sure his kids are okay. All he wants to do is get them out.”

However, the couple couldn’t see who was outside in the dark and at first thought it might be a prank.

Once he opened the door, Mr Sears said one of the women did not know there was blood on her clothes and she cleaned them for him.

She said another one of the girls was “not too scared” and didn’t want to be alone.

Mrs Sars said: “You don’t think, you do it without thinking.

“We were here just in time when they came here and we had to help them … We didn’t do anything.”