Parsons Green tube station

Parsons Green is a London Underground station on the Wimbledon branch of the District line. It stands between Putney Bridge and Fulham Broadway stations in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. The station has entrances on Parsons Green Lane and in Beaconsfield Walk. It lies a short distance north of Parsons Green itself. Before becoming a passenger station it served as a train-operator depot until those functions moved to Earl’s Court. The station opened on 1 March 1880 when the Metropolitan District Railway extended its line south from West Brompton to Putney Bridge. The building was designed by Mr Clemence under the supervision of John Wolfe-Barry. Parsons Green was later proposed as a stop on the Chelsea-Hackney Line, now known as Crossrail 2. That scheme would have either supplemented or replaced the existing District line service on much of the Wimbledon branch. North of the station the line would have branched into a new tunnelled section leading to Victoria via Chelsea. On 15 September 2017 an explosion on a train carriage at Parsons Green injured thirty people. The Metropolitan Police treated the incident as a terrorist attack inspired by ISIL. The attacker, Ahmed Hassan, was convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of thirty-four years. Lt. Col. Craig Palmer, a passenger on the affected train, received the Queen’s Commendation for Bravery for his role in helping secure the conviction.