Far Cough 3:55 Thu Feb 28
The Moorgate tube crash
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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
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BRANDED
3:58 Thu Feb 28
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I do
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HAMMERAMA
4:01 Thu Feb 28
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My Mrs was in the 5th carriage normally she would have been in the first as she worked at Moorgate. She still will not go in the first or second carriage of a tube.
It is thought Driver had a heart attack or had darker thoughts I am not sure if they ever came up with an answer
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The Stoat
4:02 Thu Feb 28
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Yep sure do, must have been horrific
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ray winstone
4:02 Thu Feb 28
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My uncle travelled on that line but arrived in his office about 10 mins before the crash.
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Far Cough
4:13 Thu Feb 28
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HAMMERAMA 4:01 Thu Feb 28
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I'm sure an autopsy could rule out a heart attack, as for darker thoughts, he was carrying 270 quid in his pocket to buy a car for his daughter
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Cheezey Bell-End
4:16 Thu Feb 28
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You can still see the damage to the lining of the tunnel.
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Mike Oxsaw
4:16 Thu Feb 28
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Was working just along London Wall at the time. When the news filtered through we went as one to the nearest hospital to give blood - fuck all else we could really do.
Recall just after we got in line to donate, it seemed the whole city turned up to do the same, and even when the doctors said they had enough donors for the immediate need, people refused to go back to their places of work until they'd given..
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Far Cough
4:17 Thu Feb 28
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The first 15 seats of the carriage were crushed into 0.61 metres (2 ft).
FMOBs
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wanstead_hammer
4:19 Thu Feb 28
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Remember when it happened.
Didn’t the ‘dead mans handle’ fail or something?
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Far Cough
4:20 Thu Feb 28
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wanstead, no, in fact his hand was found depressing the dead man's handle
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Mike Oxsaw
4:24 Thu Feb 28
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I though the most plausible reason they came up with was a petit mal - a sort of daydream on speed (yeah, I know, I know already).
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eusebiovic
4:28 Thu Feb 28
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I have some personal experience of this...
My mum used to work in Moorgate as an office cleaner.
On that very day she was with an Italian lady who was our neighbour and friend. We lived in Kentish Town at the time and as they were running to catch the tube before it departed our neighbour managed to jump through the doors leaving my mum behind on the platform.
Guess which train that happened to be?
I was a little over 2 years old at the time.
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wanstead_hammer
4:33 Thu Feb 28
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FC
Ok. Vaguely remember it being mentioned.
And didn’t realise the crush was as bad as that. Horrific.
44 years ago. Fuckin el.
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arsene york-hunt
4:33 Thu Feb 28
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I read somewhere that the driver was likely in a state of epileptic psycho-motor automatism. His eyes were wide open when he was dug out.
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Briano
4:34 Thu Feb 28
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Two brothers and a sister all working in the City, I remember me mum frantic with worry as they were all home late
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terry-h
4:39 Thu Feb 28
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FC
Wiki says 43 deaths.
There are horrendous documentaries on YouTube of this and the Kings Cross fire.
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Far Cough
4:41 Thu Feb 28
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Yeah 43
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Bungo
4:44 Thu Feb 28
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I was at Kings Cross tube station the night the fire happened.
Was about 20 minutes late getting there and it was all just starting as I arrived. If I was on time I'd have been down in there for sure.
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worm
4:48 Thu Feb 28
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I was at Kings Cross that night as well.
Missed the fire by about an hour
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eusebiovic
4:48 Thu Feb 28
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I was celebrating my 15th birthday on the 18th November 1987 when the King's Cross fire happened with two cousins at my aunt and uncles flat in Ossulton Street which is just around the corner next to where The British Library is now...
So I have had a close shave with both events
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