"in 1999, and key interchange stations such as King's Cross St. Pancras, Victoria station and Green Park becoming step-free. Over 28 stations will become step-free over the next 10 years, taking the total step-free stations to over 100. In October 2015, TfL installed the first incline lift on the UK transport network, at Greenford station. The London Underground comprises eleven lines. London Underground trains come in two sizes, larger sub-surface trains and smaller deep-tube trains. Since the early 1960s, all passenger trains have been electric multiple units with sliding doors and a train last ran with a guard in 2000."
"at the station and waiting room on the platforms. The station kiosk has been closed for many years. It is now used by London Underground as a storage area. The fire-damaged Grenfell Tower, which was destroyed in a blaze on 14 June 2017, killing 71 people, sits behind the station, with a clear view of the tower on the Paddington-bound platform. Automated announcements are made by Transport for London asking passengers waiting for trains not to take pictures of the fire-damaged building, mainly as a mark of respect to those who died/were otherwise affected by the disaster but also so"
"into the fire led to the resignation of senior management of both London Underground and London Regional Transport. To comply with new safety regulations issued as a result of the fire, and to combat graffiti, a train refurbishment project was launched in July 1991. In April 1994, the Waterloo & City Railway, by then owned by British Rail and known as the Waterloo & City line, was transferred to the London Underground. In 1999, the Jubilee line was extended from Green Park station through Docklands to Stratford station, resulting in the closure of the short section of tunnel between Green"
"Oxford Circus fire The Oxford Circus fire occurred on Friday 23 November 1984 at 9.50pm at Oxford Circus station on the London Underground. Oxford Circus station is in the heart of London's shopping district and is served by three deep-level tube lines: the Bakerloo line, Central line and Victoria line. The three lines are linked by a complex network of tunnels and cross-passages which all converge to a common booking hall situated beneath the junction of Oxford Street and Regent Street. The fire started in a materials store at the south end of the northbound Victoria line platform, which was"
"were complete. The nearly life-expired Northern line escalators were replaced as well and the Northern line station reopened, completing the return to normal operation, on 5 March 1989. A public inquiry into the incident was initiated by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. It was conducted by Desmond Fennell , assisted by a panel of four expert advisers. The inquiry opened at Central Hall, Westminster on 1 February 1988 and closed on 24 June, after hearing 91 days of evidence. Smoking on Underground trains was banned in July 1984, over 3 years before the fire. Following a fire at Oxford Circus station"
"1868 with the opening of the City Widened Lines, and the Northern and Piccadilly platforms opened in the early 20th century. During the 1930s and 1940s, the station was restructured and partially rebuilt to cater for expanded traffic. The Victoria line connection opened in 1968. The 1987 King's Cross fire that killed 31 people is the deadliest accident to occur on the underground and resulted in widespread safety improvements and changes throughout the network. The station was extensively rebuilt in the early 21st century to cater for Eurostar services that moved from Waterloo to St Pancras in 2009. The first"
"communication system and station staff emergency training were to be improved. The Fire Precautions (Sub-surface Railway Stations) Regulations 1989 were introduced. Smoking was banned in all London Underground stations, including on the escalators, on 23 November, five days after the fire. Wooden escalators were gradually replaced, some remaining into the early 2000s (Wanstead replacing theirs in 2003 and Marylebone in 2004) and as of 2014 the entire London Underground was operating on metal escalators, after the last wooden escalator at Greenford Underground station was decommissioned on 10 March 2014. London Underground was also recommended by the Fennell Report to investigate"
"station by the fire service. In the 1990s a number of changes had to be made to the station in order to comply with stricter fire regulations, introduced for underground stations as a result of the 1987 King's Cross fire. In 1993, a new enclosed footbridge was opened at the Wolverhampton end of the station, with access to the platforms separate from the main building: this was built primarily as a fire exit, but the new exit from the station into Navigation Street was opened to the public. All wooden fittings were removed from the platforms, and new fire doors"
"close both the St Kilda and Port Melbourne lines, and convert them both to light rail. The last train service ran on 31 July 1987, with the light rail officially commissioned on 21 November 1987. The decision was made to retain the station buildings on the St Kilda line intact, and to use them for other purposes. The St Kilda station was ideal for commercial use, as it is located on busy Fitzroy Street, and was subsequently sold off. On 4 December 1989, the station was badly damaged by fire, but the structural soundness was not affected. A second fire"
"1987. A small town, originally named Fingal, quickly sprang up around the station. The township had grown such an extent that by 1877 tenders had been called for the construction of a booking office and passenger platform at the station. These improvements were completed by 1878. However, in 1887 a fire at the station destroyed the lamp room and ladies' waiting room. In 1917 the station ceased to be used as a watering station for trains travelling up the range, with watering stations being provided elsewhere on the line (although a 40,000 litre emergency water tank was constructed at the"
"were destroyed by fire on 9 May 1987 and the station is now unstaffed. On 2 March 1997, the station became part of the Central Trains franchise. Trains would run from the station from Manchester Airport to Skegness. In 2004, the Manchester Airport train was cut back to Crewe and, in September 2005, the Skegness train was cut short to Derby. The Central Trains franchise expired on 11 November 2007 and the station and its services were taken over by East Midlands Trains. The station is around 5 minutes walk from the town centre. It has two platforms (connected by"
"an organisation now providing none of the services became more of an anomaly and in 1969 ownership transferred to the London Underground which came under the authority of the London Transport Executive of the Greater London Council. Another fire in February 1970 led to the demolition of the station buildings (dating from 1894) and a new modern booking office opened on 11 June 1972. On 2 June 2008, an unexploded bomb from World War II was found near where the line crosses the Prescott Channel, not far from the station, causing disruption to trains. The station entrance is at a"
"fire in 1962. From 5 April 1985 to 2 September 1987 trains on the Buckfastleigh line, now the South Devon Railway heritage line, operated into the station. A footbridge across the River Dart was opened on 30 September 1993 which now allows people to walk to Totnes (Riverside) railway station to join the heritage trains to Buckfastleigh. The 1887-built footbridge that spanned the station and gave access to the operating floor of the signal box was destroyed on 18 October 1987 when hit by a crane engaged in track renewals. It was replaced by a new bridge but that in"
"1884 with the name Mark Lane (later renamed Tower Hill), just to the west of the Tower of London station, which closed on 12 October. When the original Tower Hill station was itself closed in 1967, the current Tower Hill station was opened on the site of the closed Tower of London station. The remains of the Tower of London station were demolished during the construction of the new Tower Hill station. Tower of London tube station Tower of London was a London Underground station in the City of London that closed in 1884, only two years after opening. It"
"its history. A figure of £38 million was quoted. The fire's proximity to Latimer Road Underground station caused a partial closure of London Underground's Hammersmith & City and Circle lines. The A40 Westway was closed in both directions. Bus routes were diverted. Services on the Hammersmith & City, and Circle lines were again suspended on 17 June 2017 due to concerns about debris falling from the tower. A total of 151 homes were destroyed in the tower and surrounding area. People from surrounding buildings were evacuated due to concerns that the tower might collapse. The Kensington Aldridge Academy, at the"
"and to the station recommenced on 17 December, with the platform tunnel having been stripped of all fittings down to the tunnel segment rings. Wooden hoardings were erected at the rear of the platform and the entire platform tunnel was whitewashed. Reconstruction of the decorative fittings on the platform was not completed until early 1986. Whilst smoking had been banned on London Underground trains since July 1984; at the time of the Oxford Circus fire it was still allowed in stations. In respose to the fire, a complete ban on smoking in all sub-surface stations was introduced in February 1985."
"with another arriving from Leicester, killing one passenger and injuring 23 people on the incoming train. The cause was blamed on the intermediate starter signal being lowered before the main starter was ready; the view of the latter was obscured by the smoke. On 11 December 2015, a train pulling into the station caught fire, causing it to be evacuated. The cause was believed to be a fault in its air conditioning unit. The London Underground station is on the Bakerloo line between Baker Street and Edgware Road stations and is, along with the main line station, in Transport for"
"removed in the expansion of the station for Crossrail. These parts are due to be reconstructed and installed in the University of Edinburgh. The station had four entrances to the sub-surface ticket hall from the north-east, south-west and north-west corners of the junction and from a subway beneath the Centre Point building which starts on Andrew Borde Street. The entrances were frequently congested leading to occasions during peak periods of the day when they were briefly closed to prevent overcrowding in the station. In the aftermath of the King's Cross fire in 1987, London Underground was recommended to investigate ""passenger"
"station as the Great Eastern Railway's main London terminus. By 1895 it had the largest number of platforms on any terminal railway station in London. During the First World War, an air raid on the station in 1917 led to 162 deaths. In the build-up to the Second World War, the station served as the entry point for thousands of child refugees arriving in London as part of the ""Kindertransport"" rescue mission. The station was damaged by the 1993 Bishopsgate bombing, and during the 7 July 2005 bombing seven passengers were killed when a bomb exploded aboard an Underground train"
"The earliest attack on the London Underground was in 1885, when a bomb exploded on a Metropolitan line train at Euston Square station. The Provisional IRA (and its predecessors) carried out over ten separate attacks between 1939 and 1993. As a response to growing 'Mumbai-Style' terrorist attack threats, the British Transport Police has its own detachment of armed officers who will regularly patrol both the Underground’s stations and its trains. Various regulations aim to improve safety on the Tube. Smoking was allowed in certain carriages in trains until 9 July 1984. In the middle of 1987 smoking was banned for"
"Finsbury Park and Alexandra Palace. The line continued to be used for goods into the 1960s and by London Underground for train stock movements until 6 October 1970 when it was completely closed. The station buildings were gutted by a fire on 3 February 1967, and were demolished shortly thereafter. The track was lifted in 1972, and the track bed between Muswell Hill and Finsbury Park reused as the Parkland Walk, which opened in 1984. The station master's house, located next to the now demolished station building, was converted for community use. Stroud Green railway station Stroud Green railway station"
"both the Bolton line (via the Brindle Heath Junction–Agecroft Junction connection) and the new Wigan line. Until the 1980s Pendleton was one of the more important stations on the Bolton-Manchester line, one of only two stations with a Sunday service. The nearby Salford Crescent railway station, which opened in 1987, however, took much of the passenger traffic away from Pendleton station, sending it into terminal decline. In 1988 services to Bolton were withdrawn (with the closure of the Brindle Heath to Agecroft Jcn chord) leaving Pendleton served by Atherton line trains only. An arson attack in July 1994 led to"
"driver B. Bira, who was a member of the Thai Royal family, was found dead at the station in December 1985. The station building was constructed to a design by Harry Ford in a style similar to that used at Earl's Court and Hammersmith and is now a Grade II listed building as it retains many of its original features, including terracotta facing and Art Nouveau lettering. The wooden benches on the platform with the station name along the back on enamelled metal panels are a unique feature on the entire London Underground. The station has two island platforms to"
"shed on the eastern side of the line, and a crossover between tracks. In 1938, the stationmaster was withdrawn, with the station being worked by the porter-in-charge, under ""caretaker"" conditions. From 1889, the station was a block point, under the Winters Block system, but it could be 'switched out' in times of quieter traffic. That status remained until 1980, when the signal box was only 'switched in' when required. In 1987, the signal box was closed, and all points and signals removed. After a fire in 1990 that caused extensive damage, the station building was left unused, and only two"
"mid 1970s, and was composed of one tower block (Grenfell Tower) of 23 stories and 900 other units. In the early hours of 14 June 2017, the Grenfell Tower caught fire, resulting in large loss of life. The plot occupied by the Lancaster West Estate was created by a Slum Clearance Order. Large parts of North Kensington were remodelled to create the Westway. To the west of the overground tube line is the earlier Silchester Estate. Formerly, Silchester Road continued into Clarendon Road and Lancaster Road continued from this six-way junction south-east to Bramley Road, but the lower part has"
"fire caused extensive damage, particularly to the old wooden escalators where it had started. Repairs and rebuilding took over a year; the Northern line platforms and the escalators from the ticket hall to the Piccadilly line remained closed until 5 March 1989. In the aftermath of the fire, the Fennell Report recommended that London Underground should investigate ""passenger flow and congestion in stations and take remedial action"". Consequently, a Parliamentary bill was tabled in 1993 to permit London Underground to improve and expand the congested station. In 2000, work began to upgrade and expand the station in conjunction with the"
"of 10 trains on the three lines: passengers on six of the trains were evacuated at stations and passengers on four trains were escorted down the running tunnels to adjacent stations. The last passenger evacuated from these trains left the track at 12.45am. 30 pumps attended the fire, which was declared extinguished just before 3am the next day. No-one was killed as a result of the fire; 14 people (four passengers, one police officer and nine members of London Underground staff) were taken to hospital for smoke inhalation, of whom all but one were released next day. The gutted areas"
"1988 this section of the Metropolitan was renamed the Hammersmith & City line). In 1946 the station was expanded and rebuilt by the Chief Architect of London Underground, Stanley Heaps and his assistant Thomas Bilbow, as part of the Central line eastern extension, with services starting on 4 December 1946. Following nationalisation of the joint venture owners of the W&BR, full ownership of the station passed to London Underground in 1950. On 5 July 2007 a Central line train was derailed when it hit a roll of fire blanket, which had been blown out of a cross-passage between the two"
"Down Street tube station Down Street, also known as Down Street (Mayfair), is a disused station on the London Underground, located in Mayfair, west London. It was opened in 1907 by the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway. It was latterly served by the Piccadilly line and was situated between Dover Street (now named Green Park) and Hyde Park Corner stations. The station was little used and trains often passed through it without stopping. Its lack of patronage coupled with its proximity to other stations resulted in its closure in 1932. During the Second World War it was used as"
"an explosion inspired by ISIL on a train carriage at the station injured 30 people. No fatalities were reported. The explosion was treated by the Metropolitan Police as a terrorist incident. The attacker, Ahmed Hassan, was tried for attempted murder in March 2018. He was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment and must serve a minimum of 34 years. Parsons Green is an intermediate terminating point for both District line services. Below are the seven sidings explained: Parsons Green tube station Parsons Green is an above-ground London Underground station on the branch of the District line that opened in 1880."
"platforms), and to Hertford East and Palace Gates. At that time there were Sunday services via the Hall Farm curve to the Chingford branch. On 31 March 1944 the station building was gutted by fire, although the frontage survived. After World War II, in 1948, the railways of the UK were nationalised, and operation of the station passed to British Railways Eastern Region. The Hall Farm spur line through to the Chingford branch was rarely used and, despite being electrified in 1960, the line was lifted in 1967. The station became an unstaffed halt in 1976 and the station building"
"track was later extended to Box Hill in 1971. The former wooden station building on Platforms 1 & 2 was replaced with a brick structure in 1981. It was destroyed by fire on 12 August 1986. A substation is located north-east of station, along with a former works depot. East Camberwell has one island platform with two faces and one side platform. Both platforms are linked by an underpass. It is serviced by Metro Trains' Lilydale and Belgrave line services. Platforms 1: Platforms 2: Platforms 3: East Camberwell railway station East Camberwell railway station is located on the Lilydale and"
"London Underground station underneath Piccadilly Circus. In 2011, the single was re-issued as a 7"" picture disc with a fold-out poster and a different version of ""Engine"". The song contains references to Anne Frank. In 1945, World War II ended and Frank and her sister Margot died of typhus. The lyric ""all when I'd want to keep white roses in their eyes"" could be seen as a reference to the White Rose resistance group that existed in Nazi Germany in the early 1940s, though songwriter Jeff Mangum claims that he had never heard of the movement before ""In the Aeroplane"