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Yoda: I was wondering why a bomb would go off in Edgeware Road so far from the others.
I think you'll find that all the stations thus far affected, with the exception of Russell Square, whose bomb was actually on a Piccadilly Line train leaving King's Cross, are on the Hammersmith & City (and Metropolitan and Circle Line) route between Edgware Road and Aldgate East.
One reason this may have been targeted is that part of it is the oldest (and therefore shittest and smallest and nearest the surface and least able to cope) section of the Underground, nearly 150 years old. The stations on this section are, West to East:
(Original/oldest stations in italics, affected stations in bold)
Paddington
Edgware Road
Baker Street
Great Portland Street (Portland Road as was)
Euston Square (Gower Street as was)
King's Cross
Farringdon
Barbican
Moorgate
Liverpool Street
Aldgate East
I think someone researched the history of the tube and really knew what they were up to. Plus King's Cross and Liverpool Street are two of the busiest interchanges in Central London, with six tube lines going through KX and four through Liverpool Street ... which is at the heart of the City. |
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