Russell Square tube station
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Russell Square is a London Underground station on Bernard Street, Bloomsbury, not far from the British Museum and Russell Square Gardens. Opened on 15 December 1906, the station is located in Travelcard Zone 1, and is between Holborn and King's Cross St Pancras on the Piccadilly Line.
Nearby British Museum tube station was closed in the 1930s. According to an old myth there's a tunnel from this, now redundant, station to the British Museum Egyptian room.
The station has a lift, but it does not have escalators. The station was designed by Leslie Green. On 7 July 2005 in a co-ordinated bomb attack, an explosion in a train travelling between King's Cross St. Pancras and Russell Square resulted in the deaths of 26 people.
{| class="wikitable" style="margin: 0.5em auto; text-align: center; clear: both;" |- ! Preceding station ! colspan="3" | Underground Lines ! Following station
|- style="text-align: center;"
| Holborn
| style="background:#002d73;" |
| Piccadilly Line
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