Moorgate Tube Crash

Send us Fan Mail Every morning, millions of us step onto trains and make a silent deal with a stranger: you drive, I trust. That bargain held for decades on the London Underground, until a Friday in February 1975 when a packed Northern City Line train reached Moorgate and simply did not slow down. It kept power on, rolled past Platform 9 at speed, and hit the buffer stop and wall in what became the worst peacetime accident in Underground history. We walk through the setup in plain detail: an...