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Background[edit]
London Underground was one of the safest methods of transport in 1975. Aside from suicides, there were only 14 deaths between 1938 and 1975, 12 of which had come in the 1953 Stratford crash. Three million people a day travelled on the network.[1] Moorgate station, in the City of London, was the terminus at the southern end of the Northern City Line, five stops from the northern end at Drayton Park. It is an interchange between the underground network and British Rail suburban services. There are ten platforms, four of which, numbers 7 to 10, are deep level; numbers 9 and 10 were the platforms used for the Northern City Line service.[2]
At the end of platform 9 was a two-foot high sand drag to stop over-running trains. The sand drag was xx metres long, 19 feet on the tracks in front of the platform, and 17 feet inside an over-run tunnel; that tunnel was 20.3 metres long, 4 metres high and 4.9 metres wide. A buffer (once hydraulic, but not functioning for some time prior to the crash) was at the end of the the tunnel, in front of a solid wall.[3][4]
Moorgate: Tube line, size of tunnel, set-up of platform, curve, warning lights, sand trap, etc
Since November 1966 the Northern City Line had run 1938 rolling stock.[5] Weekly checks were made on the brakes, doors and compressors; all equipment on the train were examined on a six-week basis and the cars were lifted from their bogies for a thorough examination on an annual basis.[6]
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Normal service did not return to Moorgate until 10 March.[7] Legacy: a 10mph speed limit was placed on all trains entering terminus platforms.[8]
- Finch, Philip; Nancekievill, David (May 1975). "The role of hospital medical teams at a major accident". British Journal of Hospital Medicine. 13 (5): 601–610.
- Browne, Stefanie (4 March 2015). [ttp://www.railmagazine.com/trains/heritage/moorgatethe-unresolved-tragedy "Moorgate…the unresolved tragedy"]. Railway Magazine. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
- ^ Jordan, Philip (1 March 1975). "The Odds Against Disaster". The Guardian. p. 11
- ^ McNaughton 1976, pp. 2–3.
- ^ McNaughton 1976, pp. 3, 21.
- ^ Medical Staff of Three London Hospitals 1975, p. 728.
- ^ Day & Reed 2008, p. 166.
- ^ McNaughton 1976, pp. 94–95.
- ^ Day & Reed 2008, p. 177.
- ^ Day & Reed 2008, p. 177.