What the records say
- When
- 28 Feb 1975
- Kind
- Rail accident
- Coordinates
- 51.52° N, 0.09° W
- Description
- train wreck on London Underground
- Deaths
- 43
- Injured
- 74
- Participants
- 1
Moorgate tube crash
1975 London Underground train 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 a train failed to stop at the line's southern terminus, Moorgate station, and crashed into its end wall. It is considered the worst peacetime accident on the London Underground.
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- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “A major tube train crash at Moorgate station, London kills 43 people”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “倫敦地鐵沼澤門站(Moorgate Lstation)發生嚴重撞車事故,造成43人死亡。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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