Far Cough 3:55 Thu Feb 28
The Moorgate tube crash
|
|
Anyone old enough to remember this? On this day 1975 a terrible tragedy occurred.
45 people died
Still not clear what happened.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorgate_tube_crash
|
|
|
Replies - Newest Posts First ( Show In Chronological Order)
jimbo2.
3:15 Sun Mar 3
Re: The Moorgate tube crash
|
I recall that 2 people were trapped & badly injured for some time, before they could reach them & get them out. It was a horrific incident!
|
bruuuno
2:55 Fri Mar 1
Re: The Moorgate tube crash
|
The shooting range at Liverpool street is pretty cool
|
Gloucester Iron
1:58 Fri Mar 1
Re: The Moorgate tube crash
|
chim chim cha boo 12:55 Fri Mar 1
Re: The Moorgate tube crash
No of course not Bru but you'd be surprised at the effect having an assault rifle pointed at you has.
When the City had it's 'ring of steel' against the IRA (although virtually everyone I ever saw stopped and searched was black - I never realised the IRA had so many black people involved) I was stopped going across London Bridge on my motorbike by an armed cordon.
'Why have I been stopped officer?' I said.
He then put the barrel of the gun inside my crash helmet and against my cheek and said 'anything we fucking want to stop you for'.
Shortly after that one of the silly cunts shot himself in the leg on the firing range at Liverpool St police station which made me laugh and laugh.
On the whole though I try and avoid the power-mad cunts, hence me skulking off the balcony.
Probably the Met's old storm troopers in the SPG...?
|
Hammer and Pickle
12:59 Fri Mar 1
Re: The Moorgate tube crash
|
Rude Babylon with guns = not cricket.
|
chim chim cha boo
12:55 Fri Mar 1
Re: The Moorgate tube crash
|
No of course not Bru but you'd be surprised at the effect having an assault rifle pointed at you has.
When the City had it's 'ring of steel' against the IRA (although virtually everyone I ever saw stopped and searched was black - I never realised the IRA had so many black people involved) I was stopped going across London Bridge on my motorbike by an armed cordon.
'Why have I been stopped officer?' I said.
He then put the barrel of the gun inside my crash helmet and against my cheek and said 'anything we fucking want to stop you for'.
Shortly after that one of the silly cunts shot himself in the leg on the firing range at Liverpool St police station which made me laugh and laugh.
On the whole though I try and avoid the power-mad cunts, hence me skulking off the balcony.
|
bruuuno
12:45 Fri Mar 1
Re: The Moorgate tube crash
|
What would he have done, shot you ?
|
chim chim cha boo
12:37 Fri Mar 1
Re: The Moorgate tube crash
|
My pal has a flat in Old Street that directly overlooks Artillery fields which was used as a makeshift morgue after 7/7. They erected big white tents which armed police patrolled around.
I went out onto his balcony (9 floors up) and a policeman motioned me to go back inside. I thought 'bollocks to that, how does he know that I don't own this million quid flat and I just want to use my balcony'?
My stance changed a bit I must admit when he carefully pointed his assault rifle at me and I shuffled back inside.
|
chim chim cha boo
12:30 Fri Mar 1
Re: The Moorgate tube crash
|
After 7/7 I needed to go to Kings Cross so I nipped in round the Camley St entrance, just as a CSI copper emerged from underground in a boiler suit and shoulder-length oxblood gloves.
It was a boiling hot summer's day and there were news reports that rats had started 'interfering with the crime scene'.
So you've got dead, burnt people in an enclosed space, arc lights, it's boiling hot, probably stinking and rats are starting to eat the bodies.
All that was clear in the poor fucker's face as he kind of stared straight through me. First and only time I've ever felt sorry for a copper.
|
Far Cough
12:11 Fri Mar 1
Re: The Moorgate tube crash
|
Petit mal, I think that would have shown up in the autopsy?
|
Biggie Biggs
12:11 Fri Mar 1
Re: The Moorgate tube crash
|
Grumpster 12:41 Fri Mar 1
That's nonsense, it has happened loads of time
|
CrowleyHammer
10:29 Fri Mar 1
Re: The Moorgate tube crash
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_by_pilot
|
CrowleyHammer
10:26 Fri Mar 1
Re: The Moorgate tube crash
|
Grumpster 12:41 Fri Mar 1
Re: The Moorgate tube crash
As an afterthought, I don't believe anyone who would be committing suicide would do so when they also knew that loads of others would die at their hands.
A fair few pilots have done just that though.
|
Westside
10:25 Fri Mar 1
Re: The Moorgate tube crash
|
As an afterthought, I don't believe anyone who would be committing suicide would do so when they also knew that loads of others would die at their hands.
So what was that German Wings pilot up to, when he crashed his plane, after locking the co pilot and other crew out of the flight deck?
|
Eddie B
10:19 Fri Mar 1
Re: The Moorgate tube crash
|
He could've been having one of those mini strokes you can get, a petit mou, or something.
|
RBshorty
3:09 Fri Mar 1
Re: The Moorgate tube crash
|
The common consensus within the rail industry was that it was suicide.
|
Nurse Ratched
1:13 Fri Mar 1
Re: The Moorgate tube crash
|
*glares at Bruuno*
|
bruuuno
1:11 Fri Mar 1
Re: The Moorgate tube crash
|
lowermarshhammer 12:06 Fri Mar 1
I’m ignorant of all things raily but why is driving a steam train better than driving a non steam one?
|
Eerie Descent
12:50 Fri Mar 1
Re: The Moorgate tube crash
|
Far Cough would've been on that exact train, had he not retired from his job in the City a year earlier.
|
Side of Ham
12:47 Fri Mar 1
Re: The Moorgate tube crash
|
Lovely hearing Ivan the Engeski reminisce about his childhood in Poland.
|
Grumpster
12:41 Fri Mar 1
Re: The Moorgate tube crash
|
As an afterthought, I don't believe anyone who would be committing suicide would do so when they also knew that loads of others would die at their hands.
|
lowermarshhammer
12:06 Fri Mar 1
Re: The Moorgate tube crash
|
For all you nerds.
https://youtu.be/su-DMP_z_rs
(mild swearing warning)
Driving a steam train back in the day on cross country routes must have been an amazing job. If I had my time again I would have loved to work for ScotRail driving in the Highlands. For the scenery, not the trains of course. 🤣
|
| 
