The tram that survived the Hiroshima bomb

One of the few remaining trams which survived the Hiroshima bomb has been restored to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the attack.

It has been repainted its original colours - blue and grey - and has video testimony from survivors on board.

After the blast, the city's tram system was back up and running in only three days. (BBC News)

Tetsushi Yonezawa was one of only 14 people to live after being within 750m of the hypocentre of the explosion that took place nearly 70 years ago

Now in their 70s and 80s, the survivors have given a unique insight into what happened on that day for a new ITV documentary, The Day They Dropped The Bomb, some of them speaking for the first time on British television.

Tetsushi Yonezawa, is one of only 14 people to live after being within 750m of the hypocentre of the explosion, 

Now 80, Tetsushi recalled how he was an 11-year-old, packed on a tram with his mother when the bomb hit.

All other passengers on the tram died but Tetsushi and his mother survived because they were wedged in by other travellers whose bodies protected them from the blast.

He said: 'My mother and I were surrounded by people so we were uninjured. I knocked my head and got shards of glass in my hair but at that time I didn't notice them.' 

Takashi Tanemori, 76,  was a seven-year-old who was running around and playing with his friends

when his life changed forever.

The bomb was the first atomic weapon and wiped out the historic city when it struck Hiroshima on August, 6, 1945, leaving the famous mushroom cloud (pictured)

'The whole of Hiroshima has been annihilated' was how communications operative Yoshie Oka communicated the events to the army. A survivor is pictured surveying remains his home town

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