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Russell Square is a London Underground station on Bernard Street, Bloomsbury , not far from the British Museum and Russell Square Gardens . Opened on 15 December 1906 , the station is located in Travelcard Zone 1 , and is between Holborn and King's Cross St Pancras on the Piccadilly Line .

Nearby British Museum Tube Station was closed in the 1930s .
According to an old myth there's a tunnel from this, now redundant, station to the British Museum Egyptian room.

The station has a Lift , but it does not have Escalators . The station was designed by Leslie Green .
On 7 July 2005 in a Co-ordinated Bomb Attack , an explosion in a train travelling between King's Cross St. Pancras and Russell Square resulted in the deaths of 26 people.