By a weird coincidence I'm currently re-reading the "Cribb" Victorian detective series by Peter Lovesey including Invitation to a Dynamite Party based on the real 1884-6 bombing campaign by the Irish-American Clan-na-Gael. Many of the same stations were targeted then.


Not so much of a coincidence. The bombers very carefully hit key nodes in the network to cause maximum long term disruption as well as loss of life. In the 1880s hitting Edgeware Road and Aldgate junctions would have had the same impact on the overall system as today. Anybody with a basic knowledge of railway geography would spot that.