Editing Piccadilly line (section)

====King's Cross fire====
{{main article|King's Cross fire}}

[[File:Memorial plaque with clock, King's Cross St. Pancras tube station, London.jpg|thumb|Memorial plaque of the [[King's Cross fire]] erected at the station]]

On 18 November 1987, the large [[King's Cross fire]] broke out, the incident being near the Northern/Piccadilly line escalators which killed 31 people.{{sfn|Horne|2007|p=132}}{{sfn|Day|Reed|2010|p=191}} As a result, wooden escalators were replaced at all Underground stations.<ref>{{cite hansard | house = House of Commons | url = https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1989/apr/12/kings-cross-fire-fennell-report#S6CV0150P0_19890412_HOC_145 | title = King's Cross Fire (Fennell Report) | date = 12 April 1989 | column_start = 915 | column_end = 917 | speaker = [[Paul Channon]] | access-date = 17 August 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121227101227/http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1989/apr/12/kings-cross-fire-fennell-report#S6CV0150P0_19890412_HOC_145 | archive-date = 27 December 2012 | url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/law-obituaries/8618848/Sir-Desmond-Fennell.html |work=The Daily Telegraph |location= London |title=Sir Desmond Fennell |date=5 July 2011 |access-date=17 August 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180613050755/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/law-obituaries/8618848/Sir-Desmond-Fennell.html |archive-date=13 June 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>{{refn|All except the two at [[Greenford station]] were replaced. These have since been decommissioned on 20 March 2014,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.london24.com/news/transport/tube_s_only_wooden_escalator_to_carry_last_passengers_1_3419976 |title=Tube's only wooden escalator to carry last passengers |last=Mann |first=Sebastian |date=11 March 2014 |publisher=London 24 |access-date=17 August 2020 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141029143253/http://www.london24.com/news/transport/tube_s_only_wooden_escalator_to_carry_last_passengers_1_3419976 |archive-date=29 October 2014 }}</ref><ref>Fact 121 in the reference. {{cite news |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united-kingdom/england/london/articles/London-Underground-150-fascinating-Tube-facts/ |title=London Underground: 150 Fascinating Tube Facts |last=Attwooll |first=Jolyon |date=9 January 2017 |access-date=17 August 2020 |url-status=live |work=The Telegraph |location= London |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200817173309/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united-kingdom/england/london/articles/London-Underground-150-fascinating-Tube-facts/ |archive-date=17 August 2020}}</ref> being replaced with an [[Inclined elevator|inclined lift]] and an up metal escalator the following year.<ref>{{cite press release |url=https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/press-releases/2015/october/uk-first-as-incline-lift-opens-at-greenford-tube-station |title=Incline lift at Greenford Tube Station is UK First |publisher=[[Transport for London]] |date=20 October 2015 |access-date=17 August 2020 |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200817181048/https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/press-releases/2015/october/uk-first-as-incline-lift-opens-at-greenford-tube-station |archive-date=17 August 2020}}</ref>|group=note}} The Piccadilly line platforms remained open, but with the escalators to the ticket hall closed for repairs. Access was temporarily via the Victoria line or [[Kings Cross Midland City|Midland City platforms]]. New escalators were fully installed on 27 February 1989.{{sfn|Croome|Jackson|1993|pp=259,262}}