Moorgate tube disaster 50 years ago today

[Manuel]

Worst fatality ever on the London tube network. Any old cunts on here have any recollection of this?

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo ... 13981.html

RIP to the victims who were just going to work.

[Mike Oxsaw]

Monsieur merde de cheval » 02 Mar 2025, 02:08

Far Cough UKunt" wrote: ↑28 Feb 2025, 16:41

​​​​​I was the driver

No! I was the driver






 

This clearly needs to be settled by a round or two of brick wall/paper/scissors.

[F 129 Row66]

Monsieur merde de cheval » 02 Mar 2025, 02:08

Far Cough UKunt" wrote: ↑28 Feb 2025, 16:41

​​​​​I was the driver

No! I was the driver





 

[Helmut Shown]

Unfortunately, I'm an old cսnt and was a regular user of the old Northern City Line that ran from Moorgate to Drayton Park at that time. I was at work in Holloway on the day that it happened. I remember it very well, one of my work colleague's father in law, was a driver on that line and knew Les Newsome very well. He was as dumbfounded as everybody involved as he knew him to be a steady bloke. I can remember going home on that line, afterwards when it became part of British Rail's Great Northern network, and was stuck outside Moorgate for over an hour as the failsafe signalling that they put in had failed and eventually the driver had to go over a red signal to get us into the station.

[Monsieur merde de cheval]

Worst fatality ever on the London tube network. Any old cunts on here have any recollection of this?

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo ... 13981.html

RIP to the victims who were just going to work.

I remember it, Driver Newson wasn't it?

​​​​​I was the driver

[MaryMillingtonsGhost]

Probably the first disaster I can remember with a degree of clarity is the Kings Cross fire in '87, more so as I was working in Farringdon at the time, the next stop on the Metropolitan Line.

 

That's where I was working in '87 (Cowcross Street).

We had a training session at a hotel at King's Cross that evening which is why I was there when the tube fire happened.

 

 

 

 

Small world mate. Worked in Britton Street from '82 til '95. The red building behind the stone archway.
Used to sup in The 3 Compasses and The Castle back then.

[Bungo]

Probably the first disaster I can remember with a degree of clarity is the Kings Cross fire in '87, more so as I was working in Farringdon at the time, the next stop on the Metropolitan Line.

 

 

That's where I was working in '87 (Cowcross Street).

We had a training session at a hotel at King's Cross that evening which is why I was there when the tube fire happened.

[Far Cough UKunt]

Have a vague recollection of the Moorgate crash, but was only 8 at the time.
Crashed into an underground siding didn't it?
Probably the first disaster I can remember with a degree of clarity is the Kings Cross fire in '87, more so as I was working in Farringdon at the time, the next stop on the Metropolitan Line.

Tunnel dead end.

[MaryMillingtonsGhost]

Have a vague recollection of the Moorgate crash, but was only 8 at the time.
Crashed into an underground siding didn't it?
Probably the first disaster I can remember with a degree of clarity is the Kings Cross fire in '87, more so as I was working in Farringdon at the time, the next stop on the Metropolitan Line.

[Manuel]

Long before the days of 24 hour rolling news I remember  coming home from school and watching Jackanory when it was interrupted by a news flash.

Moorgate and the trident crash in Staines are the earliest tragedies I remember seeing on the box as a kid.

RIP to all who lost there lives 



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The earliest tragedy I can remember is JFK getting shot, and yes, I'm an old cսnt.

The earliest tragedy I can remember is JR getting shot.

[Far Cough UKunt]

Long before the days of 24 hour rolling news I remember  coming home from school and watching Jackanory when it was interrupted by a news flash.

Moorgate and the trident crash in Staines are the earliest tragedies I remember seeing on the box as a kid.

RIP to all who lost there lives 



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The earliest tragedy I can remember is JFK getting shot, and yes, I'm an old cսnt.

Aberfan was another.

[Gary Strodders shank]

Long before the days of 24 hour rolling news I remember  coming home from school and watching Jackanory when it was interrupted by a news flash.

Moorgate and the trident crash in Staines are the earliest tragedies I remember seeing on the box as a kid.

RIP to all who lost there lives 



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[Briano]

Had a brother and sister working in the City, Mum was frantic waiting for them to come home

[Mike Oxsaw]

Was working in a building on the corner of  Wood Street and London Wall when this happened. Building management immediately set up a rota where everyone went throughput the day and gave blood.

[Bungo]

I remember it but I was very small, RIP . . . . 

This site should consider a partnership with chums trousers and velcro slippers. 
And still 11 days til the next match. All I want for next season is a cup run.



 

 

 

 

 

I'd never heard of Chums trousers.

Just looked them up.

Look a bit racy frankly...

[F 129 Row66]

I'm an old cսnt as referred to by a previous poster, They think the driver was having a psychomotor automatism fit, but no-one knows really. They found him upright with his eyes wide open. We used to live near Essex Road and my sister would have been going to work around that time, but she was late. She would have used that route.
 

[honky cat]

I remember it but I was very small, RIP . . . . 

This site should consider a partnership with chums trousers and velcro slippers. 
And still 11 days til the next match. All I want for next season is a cup run.
 

[Bungo]

Worst fatality ever on the London tube network. Any old cunts on here have any recollection of this?

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo ... 13981.html

RIP to the victims who were just going to wor



 

I remember this from the news. I was fairly young at the time.

The one I really remember is Kings Cross in '87 as I was rolling up to catch a tube as the smoke was starting to come out of the stairs. Somone I worked with was a couple of minutes ahead of me, and apparently he was the last that came out of the station on his own two feet.

Next day was interesting. Watching the office door to see if everyone arrived for work (pre-mobile phone days). Thankfully all did, but that was a close one!

 

[Manuel]

Worst fatality ever on the London tube network. Any old cunts on here have any recollection of this?

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo ... 13981.html

RIP to the victims who were just going to work.

I remember it, Driver Newson wasn't it?

Not  sure, but they never found out why or how it happened.

[Far Cough UKunt]

Worst fatality ever on the London tube network. Any old cunts on here have any recollection of this?

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo ... 13981.html

RIP to the victims who were just going to work.

I remember it, Driver Newson wasn't it?