Pure misfortune. The Ticket Hall was (and is) just below street level, so it falling on the roadway caused it to collapse and the blast then went down the escalator shafts.

understated plaque in the Ticket Hall commemorates the 56 victims and reminds us that even the usual safety of the Tubes could sometimes be breached./END

Sadly, 56 people were killed in this incident. A larger figure of 111 is often quoted, including in London Transport's own wartime history published in 1946 but this seems to have been a confused figure of the total number of casualties stated at the time and subsequently perpetuated. Today, a small

"London's Largest Crater". Within three weeks, a temporary bridge had been built across the crater, allowing vehicles to cross, although the station itself would not re-open to passengers for another year. It was to be well into the 1970s before the Ticket Hall was fully repaired to modern standards

Sadly, many more were beyond help and the rescue works soon became one recovering the victims. Amazingly, despite the damage at surface level, trains were able to run through the station without stopping by the following morning and the rubble had been cleared from what became known as...

happened to him. Rescue workers were unable to readily access the station from the surface, so instead had to walk through the Central Line tunnel from Liverpool Street in order to reach the casualties below ground. On the surface, rescuers with heavy equipment were able to save many of the trapped.

the station at the time. On the surface many people were trapped, some killed outright and some blown out of the crater by freak effects of the blast. In fact, one London Transport worker was discovered the following morning, wandering the nearby streets in a dazed state, having no idea what had..

Ticket Hall roof exploded and collapsed, with a blast wave heading down the escalator shaft. The Ticket Hall was immediately reduced to rubble, whilst on the Central Line platform, at least one unfortunate shelterer was blown in to the path of a Central Line train which just happened to be entering

shortly after 20:00, many of the would-be shelterers were settling down on to the Central and Northern Line platforms below but a considerable number of others were using the public toilets at the Ticket Hall level to freshen up before heading down to sit out the raid. At around 20:05 however, the..

That did cross my mind! 😂

Used it once or twice to get the train to North Woolwich, so I could say I’d used it. It was very dark and gloomy - as you say quite an eerie place. I think only one or two platforms in use at the end.

My boss at the time used the NLL for his commute from West Hampstead to Broad Street, used to swear by it (and occasionally at it!)

Soon be Christmas again!

I think the arrogance is off the scale with a lot of these players and sadly it emanates down from the captain and the management.

It won’t happen but those four plus Crawley should be made to play a full season of championship cricket and learn again how to play properly before they’re considered for the test side. As for Brook, I think he’s just plain dumb - an enormous waste of talent.

Agreed. This “attack every ball” strategy just reduces the game to a clown show and I’ve had enough of it.

We’re going to end up with a team of them before too long. They’re either too thick or too arrogant to understand that test cricket and the slogging competitions are two completely different games.