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Maybe someone else can confirm, but that doesn't look like any TFL carriage i know. In fact, it looks a lot more like moscow: http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/inside-modern-subway-car-1214...

and was posted on EnglishRussia a week ago: https://twitter.com/EnglishRussia1/status/697017291494596608

It may have existed before this...

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It is indeed a carriage from one of the Russian underground systems. I vaguely recall having seen this story sometime ago, and back then it was reported that this guy was spotted in Moscow underground, but these kinds of carriages can be seen in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kiev and possibly other cities.

You're correct its definitely not a London Underground I dont think its a UK train either

Agreed.

That metal pole should be coloured (dark blue, dark red, or yellow) if it were a London Underground train. I even Google Image Searched it, and cannot find a train that looks like that. Plus the shape of the pole is all wrong...

...and here again in Poland, also a week ago:

http://paczaizm.pl/jesli-zastanawiasz-sie-gdzie-spierdzielil...

Oldest reference to it I could find is this blog post (in russian) quoted a deleted facebook post (also in russian)

http://www.yaplakal.com/forum23/topic1310380.html

yes that's not TFL by the looks of it.

Definitely not a UK train.

Whether this post is accurate is really irrelevant to whether or not this attack is feasible.

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