Liverpool Street Station - in Fiction

In Fiction

Novels

• Andy McNab's novel Dark Winter makes the station the target of a similar attack.
• In the 1988 children's book Groosham Grange the main character is sent there from London Liverpool Street.
• In Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider series, the headquarters of MI6 is near Liverpool Street station.
• In W.G. Sebald's novel Austerlitz Liverpool Street is mentioned in connection with The Great Eastern Hotel.

Film

• In 2009, the cast of St. Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold and hundreds of extras were filmed during a flash mob type scene where the girls danced in the middle of the railway station.
• In the film Mission: Impossible a CIA safe house features above the Old Broad Street entrance to Liverpool Street tube station is features. The lead character played by Tom Cruise leaves the safe house and enters the main line concourse to use a payphone situated under the double staircase (since removed, with cash machines now at the spot).
• In the film Stormbreaker, the lead character runs through the station to find a photo booth whereupon he is then transported to MI6.

Television

• In 2011, an episode of BBC drama The Shadow Line included a scene in which a man was attempting to evade both the police and a criminal via the London Underground, eventually losing them by getting off at Liverpool Street.
• London Under Attack, first shown by the BBC One Panorama programme in May 2004 included a fictional docu-drama portrayals of how a terrorist organisation might seek to attack London used Liverpool Street station as the specific target. In the programme had a lorry containing chlorine gas explode at the junction of Shoreditch High Street and Commercial Street, just north of Liverpool Street station. The gas cloud hung over the station, and killed 3,000 people. The British government denounced the programme as "irresponsible and alarmist". The BBC said that Liverpool Street was used because of its position on the border between the City of London and the East End of London.
• The drama Dirty War, also produced by the BBC and first shown in October 2004 features a suicide terrorists detonate a "dirty bomb" just outside the Underground station, killing 200 people and rendering the area uninhabitable for 30 years. Since the programme aired, the spot at which the fictional bomb-carrying vehicle parked has become pedestrianised.
• On 15 January 2009, at 11am, around 350 people took part in a staged three minute guerrilla-style dance for the new T-Mobile advert.