Episode 78: The Moorgate tube crash

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4.2 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

On a busy Friday morning in 1975, the London Underground was packed with people heading off to work at insurance and banking companies. In one six-car train on the Northern Line, driver Leslie Newson was just having a normal workday, with plans to go buy his daughter a car after the day was done. He'd not leave the Underground alive, and neither would forty-two of his passengers.

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1:54.2	Episode 78.
1:56.3	The Moregate Tube Crash.
1:58.4	February 28th, 1975.
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