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unusual facts about Piccadilly Line


St Thomas's Church, Oakwood

St Thomas's is a modern Anglican church established in the 1930s as the suburb of Oakwood grew with the extension of the Piccadilly underground line to Cockfosters.


Central Middlesex Hospital

The closest London Underground stations to the hospital are, North Acton and Hanger Lane which are on the Central line, Park Royal which is on the Piccadilly line and Willesden Junction and Harlesden which are both on the London Overground and Bakerloo line.


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Gloucester Road tube station

On 24 May 1957 Teresa Lubienska, a Polish Countess who had survived Auschwitz concentration camp, was stabbed five times on the eastbound Piccadilly line platform and died shortly afterwards.

King's Cross St. Pancras tube station

On 7 July 2005, as part of a co-ordinated bomb attack, an explosion in a Piccadilly line train travelling between King's Cross St Pancras and Russell Square resulted in the deaths of 26 people.

Strand tube station

Aldwych tube station: this disused Piccadilly line branch station was originally known as Strand