London Underground terrorism

This is a list of deliberate attacks on the infrastructure, staff or passengers of the London Underground that have caused considerable damage, injury or death.

On 30 October 1883 a bomb exploded on an Inner Circle train near Paddington (Praed Street) station. The bomb damaged the train it was on and a passing train along with part of the station and the signal box. Sixty-two passengers were injured.

At the same time a bomb exploded in the tunnel between Charing Cross (now Embankment) and Westminster stations. No trains were damaged or passengers hurt.

In January 1885 a bomb exploded on a Metropolitan line train at Gower Street (now Euston Square) station.

A bomb left by an anarchist group on a Metropolitan Railway train exploded at Aldersgate Street station (now Barbican) on 26 April 1897. Sixty people were injured, ten seriously, but the only fatality was Harry Pitts (born in 1861 in Devon) who died from his injuries. At the inquest into Pitts' death, the jury found that he had been killed "by a bomb, or some other explosive, maliciously placed in the carriage by some unknown person or persons". A verdict of "wilful murder" was recorded.

In February 1913 a bomb – possibly planted by the Suffragettes – was discovered at Westbourne Park station.

The Provisional Irish Republican Army, is an Irish Republican paramilitary organisation which, until the Belfast Agreement, sought to end Northern Ireland's status within the United Kingdom and bring about a United Ireland through armed force. On a number of occasions the group attacked the London Underground.

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