A memorial service took place on March 11, 2026, at West Ham Underground Station in London to honour Joseph Julius Stephen, a Tube train driver killed 50 years earlier while trying to stop an IRA bomber.

The incident occurred on March 15, 1976, after a 5lb bomb exploded prematurely in a front carriage, prompting an emergency stop. The bomber, armed with a revolver, attempted to flee. Stephen, aged 34, intervened and was fatally shot. A passenger was wounded in a separate shooting.

DUP MP Carla Lockhart attended the service alongside members of the Lurgan-based Ancre Somme Association, Labour MP James Asser, and Stephen's friends and relatives. A plaque at the station commemorates Stephen.

Lockhart described Stephen's actions as an example of selflessness against terror and stressed the need to remember IRA terrorism victims. Lt Col Ant Maher, charity patron, noted Stephen's confrontation saved lives. Kenny Donaldson of SEFF called it heroism by a civilian unwilling to let terrorism prevail.

A man received five life sentences at the Old Bailey for the murder, attempted bombing, and attempted murder of three others, including two policemen.