On Jun 10, 6:44*pm, "Tim Fenton" wrote:

"1506" wrote:

When I first utilized the London Underground in the 1960s, dark blue
litterbins were commonplace. *As the IRA terror campaign came to
London, they were removed. *Lockers at mainline stations where also
removed.

Unattended lockers were certainly removed. But the first phase of the
Jubilee Line featured station litter bins, and that wasn't until 1979.

IIRC the same sized litterbins started to re-appear the 1980s. *At
that time they were painted orange. *My best guess is that they have
again been removed. *This time due to the evil of islamic terrorism.

Yawn. The litter bins were removed during the 80s after Seamus
O'Timing-Device and his pals used them to hide bombs. This pre-dates any
activity in the capital by the followers of Lardy Binman.

Afraid to say I don't think that's quite right, though off hand I
can't remember the potted history of litter bins on the public
transport system in London. However, I think that to an extent some
litter binds made come backs in the 90's, post IRA ceasefires, before
being removed again more recently. It could possibly even be a rather
more complicated story than that, with bins initially only being
removed from some stations, and perhaps returning to some before they
returned to others, before later being withdrawn again.

The clear plastic bin bag in a hoop is I think a more recent
'innovation'.

The significant incident was an IRA bomb left in a litter bin on the
concourse of Victoria station in 1991 that killed a man and injured 38
others. There was also a bomb at London Bridge station in 1992 that
injured 29 people, though I don't know where it was placed.

There were many other IRA bomb attacks on public transport in London,
the memory of many of which has since been largely forgotten in the
collective memory - but please do note that I'm not saying litter bins
were necessarily involved in them, I'm just sifting through some of
the lesser leafed pages of history. Of course the IRA's general modus
operandi was to call in a warning

Here's an Independent report of two bomb attacks on one day in
February 1993 - one on a Victoria to Ramsgate train which was stopped
at Kent House and evacuated, shortly after which the bomb blew up -
then later in the day there was a bomb at South Ken Underground
station, again after a warning and evacuation:
http://tinyurl.com/IRA-bombs-Independent-Feb-1993

There were also bombs at Clapham Jn station in 1991, and Hampstead
Tube station in 1992, amongst others.

It's not just the early 90's - on 8 September 1973 there was a bomb at
Victoria station, then a couple of days later (on 10 September) two
bombs exploded at KX and Euston Underground stations, which injured 21
people - though the two car bombs that exploded earlier in March of
that year managed to injure around 180 people, whilst two other car
bombs were defused.

And back in February 1940, an IRA bomb exploded in Euston station.

Some of the above information has been sourced from the Museum of
London's website he
http://tinyurl.com/Museum-of-London-IRA-bombings