Shot of the outtside of Edgware Road Tube Station on Chapel Street, London
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John Gaffen 2 / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
B7DFXCFile size:
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5050 x 3360 px | 42.8 x 28.4 cm | 16.8 x 11.2 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
19 January 2009Location:
Edgware Road Tube Station, Chapel Street, London NW1 5BPMore information:
Shot of Edgware Road Tube Station, on London's Circle, District and Hammersmith & City Lines. This station was part of the world's first underground railway when it was opened as part of the Metropolitan Railway between Paddington and Farringdon on 1 October 1863. It was one of the sites for the 7 July bombings. Six People died when Mohammad Sidique Khan detonated a bomb as the train was leaving the station. Six people were killed in the blast: Colin Morley, 52, Jennifer Vanda Ann Nicholson, 22, Johnathan Downey, 34, Laura Webb, 29, Michael Brewster, 52, and David Foulkes, 22. The perpetrator was the ringleader of the 7 July bombings, Mohammed Siddique Khan. On the first anniversary of the bombings, a memorial plaque to the victims was unveiled at the station. The station is located in a cutting, but is not in a tunnel. It serves the cut and cover routes of the Hammersmith & City, Circle and District Lines, forming the northern terminus for the latter's service to Wimbledon station. To the east of the station the Circle and Hammersmith and City Lines share the same tracks to Baker Street. To the west all three lines run to Paddington station, but the Hammersmith and City Line diverges from the Circle and District lines to call at a separate station at the far end of Paddington mainline station. Edgware Road station is therefore the recommended interchange for westbound travellers. It is located on the corner of Chapel Street and Cabbell Street. Edgware Road was opened by the Baker Street & Waterloo Railway on 19 March 1906