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18th November 1987: 31 people killed in the Kings Cross fire on the London Underground
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:04:08
Publish Date: 2017-11-17 21:05:21
Description: The worst fire in the history of the London Underground killed 31 people at Kings Cross St Pancras station. King's Cross St Pancras is a major intersection on the London Underground network. Numerous deep platforms serve the Metropolitan, Northern, Piccadilly, and Victoria lines in addition to the Thameslink service. At the time many of these platforms were reached by wooden escalators that had been in place for many years, inside which large amounts of combustible waste had accumulated. At approximately 7.30pm, passengers reported a fire on one of the Piccadilly Line escalators. The official inquiry later determined that it had been ...
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