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===Post-opening=== The Kentish Town to Barking line did not close as expected and both stations at Blackhorse Road remained open. The mainline station was moved to the same side of the road as the tube station and was connected to the Victoria line on 14 December 1981 via an overbridge. The original station was then closed and demolished.{{sfn|Butt|1995|p=36}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.barking-gospeloak.org.uk/documents/20120427_e_bulletin.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221010/http://www.barking-gospeloak.org.uk/documents/20120427_e_bulletin.pdf |archive-date=10 October 2022 |url-status=live |page=14 |title=Barking β Gospel Oak Line User Group E-Bulletin |date=27 April 2012 |access-date=12 September 2018}}</ref> The London Underground (Victoria) Act 1991 allowed for the construction of a {{convert|43|m|adj=on|sigfig=2}} underground pedestrian link at Victoria station between the Victoria line platforms and the sub-surface Circle line platforms above.<ref name="victoria-act-1991">{{cite web |url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/1991/10/enacted |title=London Underground (Victoria) Act 1991 |date=27 June 1991 |access-date=11 June 2012 |format=Statutory Instrument |publisher=The National Archives}}</ref> The London Underground (Victoria Station Upgrade) Order 2009 came into force in September that year, authorising the construction of a second {{convert|1930| m2|adj=on|sigfig=2}} ticket hall at Victoria.<ref name="victoria-station-twao">{{cite web |url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/2364/made |title=The London Underground (Victoria Station Upgrade) Order 2009 |date=28 August 2009 |access-date=11 June 2012 |format=Statutory Instrument |issue=2364 |publisher=The National Archives}}</ref> [[Warren Street tube station]] was attacked in the 21st July 2005 London bombings. There were no fatalities in this attack. After the [[7 July 2005 London bombings]], there was heightened security. The Metropolitan Police wrongly detained and fatally shot 27-year-old [[Jean Charles de Menezes]] once he boarded a train at {{lus|Stockwell}}. After his death, a memorial to Menezes was placed close to Stockwell station.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/jury-sees-harrowing-de-menezes-film-6631730.html | title=Jury sees harrowing de Menezes film | date=12 April 2012 }}</ref> On 23 January 2014, during upgrade work at Victoria, construction workers accidentally penetrated the signalling room of the Victoria line and flooded it with quick-drying [[concrete]], leading to the suspension of services south of Warren Street.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-25862543|work=BBC News|title=Victoria Tube line part shut hit by wet concrete flood|date=23 January 2014|access-date=25 January 2014}}</ref> Services resumed the following day after sugar was used to slow the setting of the concrete and make it easier to shovel out.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/10594427/Underground-blunder-sugar-used-to-slow-concrete-setting.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/10594427/Underground-blunder-sugar-used-to-slow-concrete-setting.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Underground blunder: 'sugar used to slow concrete setting'|date=24 January 2014|access-date=30 July 2017|last1=Edgar|first1=James}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/10594718/Why-sugar-helped-remove-Victoria-Line-concrete-flood.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/10594718/Why-sugar-helped-remove-Victoria-Line-concrete-flood.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Why sugar helped remove Victoria Line concrete flood|date=24 January 2014|access-date=25 January 2014|last1=Gray|first1=Richard}}{{cbignore}}</ref> A 24-hour [[Night Tube]] service on Friday and Saturday nights, due to start in September 2015 on the entire line,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://tfl.gov.uk/campaign/tube-improvements/the-future-of-the-tube/night-tube |title=The Night Tube |work=The Future of the Tube |access-date=11 July 2015 |publisher= [[Transport for London]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150711150816/https://tfl.gov.uk/campaign/tube-improvements/the-future-of-the-tube/night-tube |archive-date=11 July 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> was delayed because of strike action.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-37108375|title=Night Tube begins in London, bringing 'huge boost' to capital|work=BBC News|date=20 August 2016|access-date=24 August 2018}}</ref> The service began in August 2016, with trains running at 10-minute intervals on the whole line.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://tfl.gov.uk/campaign/tube-improvements/what-we-are-doing/night-tube |title=The Night Tube |website=Transport for London |access-date=21 August 2016 }}</ref>
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