Designed by a Mr Clemence under the supervision of
John Wolfe-Barry, the station was opened on 1 March 1880 when the
Metropolitan District Railway (now the District line) extended its line south from to .
Past plans Parsons Green was a proposed stop on the
Chelsea-Hackney Line, known now as
Crossrail 2. It would have either supplemented or replaced the existing
District line service on much of the
Wimbledon Branch. North of the station, the line would have branched off into a new tunnelled section that could carry it into station, via station, a new station on the Kings Road.
Crossrail 2 was to have been built to National Rail standards and go to
Wimbledon via
Clapham Junction instead. The route was safeguarded in 1991 and again in 2007.
Bombing On 15 September 2017, around 8:20 am BST, an
explosion inspired by ISIL on a train carriage at the station injured 30 people. No fatalities were reported. The explosion was treated by the
Metropolitan Police as a terrorist incident. The attacker, Ahmed Hassan, was tried for attempted murder in March 2018. He was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment and must serve a minimum of 34 years. On 6 April 2019 it was announced that Lt. Col. Craig Palmer, a passenger on the affected tube train, had been awarded the
Queen's Commendation for Bravery for his part in helping to bring the bomber to trial and conviction. ==References==