Liverpool Street Underground Station

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Liverpool Street Underground in the heart of the City of London is London's fifth busiest station on the whole network, with four lines passing through it. The station was originally known as 'Bishopsgate' when it opened in 1875 (until it was renamed in 1909), and the Circle, Metropolitan and Hammersmith & City lines ran through it. In 1912, a deeper level was added for the Central line.

The station and the line have been the scene of two bomb attacks since the second world war. In 1993 a major IRA bomb was detonated in Bishopsgate, devastating the station. On 7 July 2005, a bomb went off as a Circle line train left the station en-route to Aldgate - one of four bombs to explode that day.

On 31 May 2008 about 2,000 revellers gathered at Liverpool Street Tube to celebrate (or commiserate over) the last night of legitimate drinking on London Transport. Mayor Boris Johnson announced a ban on alcohol on the tube soon after taking office. Peter Moore, 35, a sailor from Brighton, described his night at 'Last Round on the Underground' as: "Drunken, I just downed a can of beer in 10 seconds. It's sweaty on there but I'm going round and round until I vomit."

This hasn't been the only unusual event at the station, in January 2009, over 400 actors converged on the station to perform a flash mob-style dance routine for T-Mobile.

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