S4 Ep29: The Moorgate Tube Crash - 1975

The CRASH BANG WALLOP Podcast

It’s 1975, it’s fancy central London and at Moorgate Underground Station a load of miserable commuters are waiting to catch the worst tube journey since Phil Lucas passed his kidney stones.

In what vastly overpaid tube drivers are already complaining to their union is the 29th episode of the CB Wallop Podcast, Join Phil Jerrod and Phil Lucas as they discuss The Moorgate Tube Crash - the weird and mysterious tale of how a perfectly healthy man, on a perfectly normal morning, drove his perfectly maintained train into a very big wall.

Was he startled by a pesky ghost? ... no.. no he wasn’t.

Trigger Warning: This one’s proper carnage. If you’re scared of the tube this isn’t going to help at all. There is lots of claustrophobia, lots of crushing, some amputations and one very, very scary ghost story. Mind the gap my friends.

Music by Steve Adam

Sound Clips:

Disaster - Moorgate train disaster - 28/02/1975

Discovery Channel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iem5zLPniTk&t=496s

Steve Harley - Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)

Song: Make Me Smile (Come up and See Me) (Live)

Artist: Steve Harley, Cockney Rebel

Album: Face to Face (A Live Recording)

Writers: Steve Harley

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpJ0cyXbMbI

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Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorgate_tube_crash

https://www.railmagazine.com/trains/heritage/moorgatethe-unresolved-tragedy

https://www.london-fire.gov.uk/museum/history-and-stories/historical-fires-and-incidents/the-moorgate-tube-crash-1975/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1240625/Thirty-years-Britains-worst-Tube-crash-victims-son-asks-Did-suicidal-driver-kill-42-innocent-passengers.html

https://unitedcats.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/the-moorgate-tube-crash-deconstructed/

http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/DoE_Moorgate1975.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iem5zLPniTk

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/67zkl6/the_moorgate_train_disaster/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRS8gKfUEyw&t=669s