Safety on the London Underground The earliest attack on the London Underground was in 1885, when a bomb exploded on a Metropolitan line train at Euston Square station. The Provisional IRA (and its predecessors) carried out over ten separate attacks between 1939 and 1993. As a response to growing 'Mumbai-Style' terrorist attack threats, the British Transport Police has its own detachment of armed officers who will regularly patrol both the Underground’s stations and its trains. Various regulations aim to improve safety on the Tube. Smoking was allowed in certain carriages in trains until 9 July 1984. In the middle of 1987 smoking was banned for
London Underground infrastructure London Overground – at New Cross and New Cross Gate. Of the boroughs that the Underground passes through, Hackney is served solely by Manor House station on the Piccadilly line in the very north-western edge of the borough. For the most part however some of the tube lines like the Central line skirt around the edge of the Hackney rather than going through it. Greenwich borough was unserved until North Greenwich station opened on the Jubilee line extension in 1999. The lines are electrified with a four-rail DC system: a conductor rail between the rails is energised at −210 V