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Moorgate station was the site of the Moorgate tube crash of 1975, when a Northern City Line train failed to stop and hit a brick wall killing 43. This resulted in systems, known as Moorgate control , being installed on the Underground in order to stop trains at dead-ends.
Moorgate is a central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station on Moorgate in the City of London.Main line railway services for Hertford, Welwyn Garden City and Stevenage are operated by Great Northern, while the London Underground station is served by the Circle, Hammersmith & City, Metropolitan and Northern lines.
A statue of the English Romantic poet John Keats is located in Moorfields, Moorgate in the City of London. It was sculpted by Martin Jennings and depicts a larger than life-size copy of a life mask of Keats taken aged 21. Keats was the son of an ostler at the nearby inn, The Swan and Hoop. [1]
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.
Moorgate was built by upgrading a postern built in 1415, and enlarged in 1472 and 1511. The gate remained poorly connected as there was no direct approach road from the south until 1846, long after the gate and wall were demolished.
The Northern City Line is a commuter railway line in England, which runs from Moorgate station to Finsbury Park in London with services running beyond. It is part of the Great Northern Route services, and operates as the south-eastern branch of the East Coast Main Line (ECML).
The London Underground network carries more than a billion passengers a year. [1] It has one fatal accident for every 300 million journeys. [2] Five accidents causing passenger deaths have occurred due to train operation in nearly 80 years since the London Passenger Transport Board was formed, the last being at Moorgate in 1975; other fatalities have been due to wartime and terrorist bombings ...
The Globe, Moorgate, EC2. The Globe is a pub at 83 Moorgate, London. It is a Grade II listed building, built in the early 19th century. [1] References