• Thumbnail for Moorgate tube crash
    The Moorgate tube crash occurred on 28 February 1975 at 8:46 am on the London Underground's Northern City Line; 43 people died and 74 were injured after...
    50 KB (6,644 words) - 13:10, 15 December 2024
  • many notable historic and contemporary buildings. Moorgate station was the site of the Moorgate tube crash of 1975, when a Northern City Line train failed...
    13 KB (1,470 words) - 19:52, 17 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Moorgate station
    In 1975, the Northern City Line platforms were the site of the Moorgate tube crash – at the time, the worst peacetime accident in the history of the...
    30 KB (2,702 words) - 17:51, 22 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Northern City Line
    accept six-car trains. The Moorgate tube crash, the most serious peacetime accident on the London Underground, occurred at Moorgate on 28 February 1975, when...
    38 KB (3,005 words) - 11:36, 4 December 2024
  • worst accident involving trains on the London Underground until the Moorgate tube crash in 1975. A similar accident at exactly the same location, occurred...
    6 KB (500 words) - 05:42, 8 May 2024
  • were injured, and it was Britain's deadliest train crash of the decade until the Moorgate tube crash which killed 45. The cause of the accident was an...
    16 KB (2,132 words) - 13:08, 15 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for London Underground
    Line failed to stop at its Moorgate terminus and crashed into the wall at the end of the tunnel, in the Moorgate tube crash. There were 43 deaths and 74...
    206 KB (19,238 words) - 02:01, 13 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Blood alcohol content
    in bodies recovered from water. For instance, following the 1975 Moorgate tube crash, the driver's kidneys had a blood alcohol concentration of 80 mg/100 mL...
    40 KB (3,659 words) - 03:11, 19 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Edgware tube station
    circumstances of this accident were similar to those of the Moorgate tube crash of 1975. During 2008–09, Tube Lines carried out work to modernise the station, including...
    12 KB (1,352 words) - 14:47, 29 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Grantham rail accident
    attention was or may have been a factor: Moorgate tube crash 2016 Hoboken train crash Bourne End rail crash December 2013 Spuyten Duyvil derailment Board...
    22 KB (2,762 words) - 12:40, 5 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for London Underground 1938 Stock
    Heather, Chris (28 February 2015). The National Archives blog."The Moorgate Tube crash". The fleet in 2020 Cite error: The named reference ARS was invoked...
    27 KB (3,114 words) - 22:46, 30 October 2024
  • on the London Underground with the highest loss of life was the Moorgate tube crash which occurred on the Northern City Line in 1975 (which was at the...
    159 KB (6,919 words) - 14:00, 10 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Finsbury Square
    at the SW of the square commemorating those who died in the 1975 Moorgate tube crash. On the west side of the square, 10 Finsbury Square is a 150,000...
    11 KB (1,174 words) - 20:57, 7 December 2024
  • of Lord Lucan. 1974 Mama Cass. 1975 Leslie Newson, driver in the Moorgate tube crash. 1982 Roberto Calvi, Vatican banker. The cause of death was asphyxia...
    22 KB (2,374 words) - 00:29, 28 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of the London Underground
    The Moorgate tube crash occurred on 28 February 1975 on the isolated Northern City Line when a southbound train failed to stop at the Moorgate terminus...
    84 KB (10,126 words) - 12:56, 29 October 2024
  • Stephen Tibble, 22, in London as he gives chase. 28 February – The Moorgate tube crash; 43 people are killed. 1 March – Aston Villa, chasing promotion from...
    42 KB (4,089 words) - 04:37, 17 December 2024
  • kills 27. February 28 – Moorgate tube crash on the London Underground: A train accelerates into a dead-end tunnel at Moorgate station killing 43. March...
    8 KB (861 words) - 23:32, 22 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for London Fire Brigade
    injuring three others, and destroying two fire engines. Moorgate train crash, 1975 – The Moorgate tube crash was a disaster on the London Underground in February...
    105 KB (11,294 words) - 18:25, 14 December 2024
  • His father, Bernard Marks, was one of 43 people who died in the Moorgate tube crash of 1975, the deadliest accident on the London Underground. In 2006...
    10 KB (475 words) - 03:02, 18 December 2024
  • Hempstead, Hertfordshire; driver had worked for 26 consecutive days 43 Moorgate tube crash 1975 (28 February) London Underground train runs at speed into dead-end...
    99 KB (3,357 words) - 20:15, 16 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for London Ambulance Service
    bombings in London to which the LAS responded can be found here. Moorgate tube crash: 28 February 1975, the train driver and 42 passengers were killed...
    54 KB (5,726 words) - 15:07, 25 October 2024
  • people. February 28 – United Kingdom – Moorgate tube crash: A driver fails to stop a London Underground train at Moorgate station and continued into the dead-end...
    57 KB (6,613 words) - 01:26, 15 November 2024
  • and Vivienne Westwood on the King's Road. 1975 28 February: The Moorgate tube crash takes place: 43 are killed when a Northern line train accelerates...
    217 KB (24,116 words) - 09:25, 18 December 2024
  • from service. 1975 Moorgate tube crash kills 43 when a southbound Northern line (Highbury Branch) train fails to stop and crashes into the headwall of...
    72 KB (5,563 words) - 05:38, 5 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Farringdon station
    23 December 1865 when the Metropolitan Railway opened an extension to Moorgate. It was renamed Farringdon & High Holborn on 26 January 1922 when the new...
    32 KB (2,810 words) - 12:36, 22 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for De Akkers metro station
    O'Hare International Airport station Moorgate tube crash: A London Underground train overshot the buffers at Moorgate tube station Boffey, Daniel (2 November...
    7 KB (552 words) - 15:48, 13 September 2024
  • Nargis, Humayun Kamal, Nishat and Khurshid Anwar. Shamima died in the Moorgate tube crash incident in 1975. Humayun served as the Ambassador of Bangladesh...
    4 KB (330 words) - 00:24, 6 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Joseph Milner (firefighter)
    the Chief Fire Officer, he was present during the aftermath of the Moorgate tube crash that occurred on occurred on 28 February 1975. He famously quoted...
    4 KB (404 words) - 13:37, 24 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for February 1975
    (FL) Herald-Tribune, March 1, 1975, p1; "1975: Dozens killed in Moorgate Tube crash", On This Day, BBC.co.UK "Rear View Mirror" Archived 2012-02-13 at...
    37 KB (4,896 words) - 09:52, 8 December 2024
  • Monument London Remembers. Accessed 4 August 2014 Planning approval "Moorgate tube disaster – Finsbury Square". London Remembers. Retrieved 27 December...
    41 KB (1,049 words) - 11:39, 2 November 2024