The fire at Bradford City football ground on the 11th May 1985, which killed 56 people, was quite similar to this disaster, in that both disasters were started by a discarded match, dropped by someone lighting a cigarette which set rubbish that had built up underneath the different structures in each place, causing fire to spread upwards after burning for a while underneath.
My boyfriend remembers picking up a radio signal at the time of the fire, police and ambulance crews directed the dead to be held at a ‘makeshift mortuary’ in the parcel depots next to the over ground part of Kings Cross which no-one was meant to know about
If smoking was banned on the underground at the time how can it not be enforceable? How could a stupid “loophole” possibly allow smokers to just ignore it? Makes no sense. It should’ve been enforced rigorously and without exception. I bet it was after the disaster. But this is all too often what happens isn’t it; shutting the gate after the horse has bolted.
I used that station at that time. A long and poorly-lit connecting corridor between parts of the station had, I discovered to my horror, a dark fibrous flooring surface which at first I thought was underfelting, but turned out to be decades of PUBIC HAIR hammered into place by millions of footsteps. I am sure it is no longer there. Nor am I. I am expatriate, thank goodness. Britain is a third world country.
The un-named victim was finally identified in 2004 as 72 year old Alexander Fallon
I will never forget the smell from the fire ..
The fire at Bradford City football ground on the 11th May 1985, which killed 56 people, was quite similar to this disaster, in that both disasters were started by a discarded match, dropped by someone lighting a cigarette which set rubbish that had built up underneath the different structures in each place, causing fire to spread upwards after burning for a while underneath.
My boyfriend remembers picking up a radio signal at the time of the fire, police and ambulance crews directed the dead to be held at a ‘makeshift mortuary’ in the parcel depots next to the over ground part of Kings Cross which no-one was meant to know about
I was on a school trip in London about a week before this happened
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There was quite a bad fire at Oxford Circus station in 1984 which caused smoking to be banned on the underground network
If smoking was banned on the underground at the time how can it not be enforceable? How could a stupid “loophole” possibly allow smokers to just ignore it? Makes no sense. It should’ve been enforced rigorously and without exception. I bet it was after the disaster. But this is all too often what happens isn’t it; shutting the gate after the horse has bolted.
I also heard there wasn't any fire alarms on the London underground at the time of the fire. Is that true?
I just wonder if friction heat from all thos gears and moving parts (maybe not all of them working neatly) could also have started a fire?
I used that station at that time. A long and poorly-lit connecting corridor between parts of the station had, I discovered to my horror, a dark fibrous flooring surface which at first I thought was underfelting, but turned out to be decades of PUBIC HAIR hammered into place by millions of footsteps. I am sure it is no longer there. Nor am I. I am expatriate, thank goodness. Britain is a third world country.
Horrible it was. I remember those old escalators I was 5 but recall how smelly they were.
Bizarre ending
Unbelievable that smoking was allowed in underground tunnels.
why did it take 13 minutes before the first appliance got there when Euston is 0.4 mile away or was they out on a other call
I think all of the train line should to stop at kings cross that is district line central line bakerloo line jubilee line Waterloo and City line