Ive heard that a station was so badly bombed during the Second World War that it was too difficult to retrieve the bodies so it was sealed up instead. True?
Not exactly. This story may have come about from one or more of the occasions when the London Underground was bombed during the War, while being used as shelters, causing many fatalities. The most likely source is probably when Bank station was bombed in October 1940, where a bomb blasted through the ticket office, which was full of people at the time, killing over 50 people. On 14th December 1940, Balham station suffered a direct hit, with a nearby sewer being severed – 60 people died as a result of this incident. There are many more incidents like these that happened during the War years, but in no case were areas concreted off – bodies were recovered wherever possible and given respectable burials, with the stations being restored as quickly as possible to full use. I suspect the reason so much mystery has arisen around these accounts is because at the time, reports of such high fatalities in single bomb strikes were suppressed to help keep up morale and so news about incidents like
