"Put down that wrench!"

I lived in Bethnal Green for a while in 1989-1990 and used the station pretty much every day. I did know about the disaster although I can't remember where I read about it, possibly in "The London Encyclopedia". Although the station was used as a shelter, trains didn't run through it until 1946, which be one reason why it is not so well-known. But I suspect that main reason is that there were just many catastrophes during the war that the public's ability to remember individual incident's was lost. Compare, for instance, the Freckleton Air Disaster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freckleton_Air_Disaster).