Three Leeds men accused of helping the July 7 bombers stopped off at many of the locations which were later attacked as they made a tour of London, a court has heard.
The jury in the case of Waheed Ali, Mohammed Shakil and Sadeer Saleem, all from Beeston, was shown a map which, the prosecution claims, plots the points visited by the trio during an alleged reconnaissance mission.
The map also pinpoints the locat
ions where the four bombers launched their attacks, killing 52 people.
The signals sent from the accused men's mobile phones over a weekend in December when they travelled to the capital from their homes in Leeds have been analysed.
The prosecution claims that the visit, which took in tourist attractions like the London Eye and the Natural History Museum, was made to help check out potential targets for later attack by July 7 ringleader Mohammed Sidique Khan and his cohorts.
During their London trip the three accused men, who are being tried at Kingston Crown Court, visited the King's Cross area where they and two of the bombers, Jermaine Lindsay and Hasib Hussain, stayed overnight at the Journeys Hostel.
King's Cross station was the point from which the July 7 suicide bombers started their final journeys before exploding their bombs.
Another set of locations plotted on the map show where three of the suicide bombers, Khan, Shezhad Tanweer and Lindsay, were spotted on CCTV on another reconnaissance mission in June, 10 days before the attacks.
But Andrew Hall QC, representing Saleem, said that the analysis of mobile phone records could not claim to show the exact location of the men in the way that CCTV could.
Shakil, 31, Ali, 24, and Saleem, 27, are accused of conspiring with Khan, Shezhad Tanweer, Jermaine Lindsay, Hasib Hussain and others unknown to cause explosions between November 17 2004 and July 8 2005. They all deny the charges.
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