At Moorgate station a southbound tube train from Drayton Park failed to stop on a terminus platform, ran into the tunnel, through the buffers and smashed into the wall at the end. Because it was built for mainline trains the tunnel was large enough to allow the carriages to ride up over each other. This was on a Friday at 08.46 so the train was packed with commuters. 43 died and about 80 were injured.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Moorgate tube disaster
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Moorgate tube disaster - Finsbury Square
The motivating force behind this memorial, the first to the tragedy, erected ...
Moorgate tube disaster - Moorgate
Our page for the monument in nearby Finsbury Square lists the 43 people.
Other Subjects
James Stuart Nicholas Mayes
James Stuart Nicholas Mayes was born on 16 April 1977 the younger of the two children of Bernard J. Mayes and Rosemary S. Mayes née Rampton. His birth was registered in the Hampstead registration d...
3 memorials
Jamie Gordon
On the Hyde Park memorial Jamie’s name is given as ‘Jamie Glenbucket-Gordon’. Our colleague, Andrew Behan, has researched this man and found that Jamie Hector Gregor Glenbucket Gordon was born on ...
3 memorials
Ihab Slimane
Ihab Slimane was born on 19 June 1981 in Lyons, France, and came to the UK in June 2005 to improve his English. He set up home near Finsbury Park and was working as a waiter at Gabrielle's, a Frenc...
3 memorials
Mark Gavin Ludvigsen
United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Mark Gavin Ludvigsen was born on 12 May 1969 in Rothesay, New Brunswick, Canada. He was the son of Karl an...
1 memorial
Tsunami in the Indian Ocean
More than 230,000 people died, 153 being British.
Event, Tragedy, Africa, Burma, India, Indian Sub-continent, Indonisia, Southeast Asia
1 memorial