“On the 28th of February, 1975, at Moorgate Tube Station in London the worst peacetime accident ever to happen on the London Underground took place…”
As always, THANK YOU to all my Patreon patrons: you make this channel possible.
https://www.patreon.com/fascinatinghorror
SOCIAL MEDIA:
► Twitter: https://twitter.com/TrueHorrorTales
► TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fascinatinghorror
► Suggestions: [email protected]
CHAPTERS:
00:00 – Intro
00:35 – Background
02:11 – The Moorgate Tube Crash
07:03 – The Aftermath
MUSIC:
► “Glass Pond” by Public Memory
SOURCES:
► “Report on the Accident that occurred on 28th February 1975 at Moorgate Station” by the Railway Inspectorate, published by The Department of the Environment, March 1976. Available from: https://www.jonroma.net/media/rail/accident/uk/doe/DoE_Moorgate1975.pdf.
► “The 1975 Moorgate tube crash” published by the London Fire Commissioner, March 2022. Link: https://www.london-fire.gov.uk/museum/history-and-stories/historical-fires-and-incidents/the-moorgate-tube-crash-1975/.
► “1975: Dozens killed in Moorgate Tube crash” published by BBC News, March 1975. Available from: http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/28/newsid_2515000/2515033.stm.
► “The Moorgate Tube crash” by Chris Heather, published by The National Archives blog, February 2015. Link: https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/moorgate-tube-crash/.
► “Thirty-five years after Britain’s worst Tube crash one victim’s son asks: Did a suicidal driver kill 42 innocent passengers?” by Laurence Marks, published by The Daily Mail, January 2010. Link: 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.
► “Moorgate…the unresolved tragedy” by Stefanie Foster, published by Rail Magazine, March 2015. Link: https://www.railmagazine.com/trains/heritage/moorgatethe-unresolved-tragedy.
#Documentary #History #TrueStories
source
Idk something ain't adding up here.
It's disrespectful that the news assumed fowl intentions before any
Real actual proof. Seems there is definitely something missing here.
Good indepth look exhausting all the possible reasons this man would have done this.
Been a while since I've heard that ominous sounding theme…BTW, those so called "automated train stops for speed control", they're Not failsafe.
Can you please cover the 1987 Kings Cross Tube Station Fire in which 31 people lost their lives… 🤍🇬🇧
My friend never knew she had epilepsy until she drove her car into a bus stop luckily nobody was there.
She was lucky her air bag saved her.
I reckon this man probably had a seizure, but isn't it typical of the newsrags to condemn this man.
my theory is that- he had a lot on his mind and all the excitement of what he was going to do distracted him and he could have zoned out for a moment which caused a horrible accident, it does happen and ideally in a safe place but life is hectic, personally with my theory i don't know how I feel about this.
Mainline trains?
No, mainline heroin!
Brother against nato: guided by allah.
The dangers of daydreaming
I have heard this story many times before but you appear to be the first to mention a motorised buffer that was out of order. So would the working buffer have saved the lives of the passengers? Was the train travelling at a normal or reduced speed ? 🤔 was this a cover up of the facts and blame passed on to a honest driver and his grieving family ?
I just saw a video where a woman in a gameshow audience froze up mid clapping, and shaquille o'neal and others have had strange moments of suddenly freezing up in the most inappropriate moments. The human brain is not yet fully understood, and this could all be an unknown phenomenon that is just very rare.
is this a reupload or did i watch a video abt him from someone else? :O
This sounds like an epilepsy seizure event that befell Mr. Leslie Newsome. There are people today still that have an undiagnosed "mild" form of epilepsy that even though it does not cause them to collapse down onto the ground violently convulsing uncontrollably, they do "blank out" and lead perfectly normal lives without anyone noticing anything. Fortunately, with today's combined medical and technological advancements, there are 24/7 CCTVs systems in place to detect any driver's medical events and bring any trains to a controlled stop and send any/all appropriate response teams via GPS transponders. Drivers look through a special optical screen somewhat like our modern-day fighter pilots do and it detects/records the driver's operating response actions.
The Raven's Eye Channel version is much better.
I'm curious as to what kind of car you'd get for 275 pounds in 1975. Probably quite a nice one?
You should make a video about the most horrific story of all time:
Dogs kill over 60,000 people worldwide every year with rabies
Dog attacks are responsible for over 28,000 reconstructive surgeries every year in the USA alone, mostly on children. Most of these dogs were well trained and "the best dogs" for many years until they attacked out of the blue when their predatory instincts were triggered by high-pitched sounds or frenetic movements that resemble the sounds and movements made by prey animals in distress (dogs are unpredictable predators).
Dogs kill 30-50 people every year in the USA alone, mostly children (the elderly come in second) in mostly unprovoked attacks
Millions of people are driven crazy by the sound of their neighbours' barking dogs and suffer from lack of sleep and negative effects to their health because of it
Dog waste is untreated, spreads diseases which can make you go blind, kills grass and trees and pollutes our water
Dogs and cats are responsible for 30% of the environmental impact of meat production in the USA
Dogs have driven a dozen animal species to extinction and threaten 200 more
Dogs sexually harass and assault us every day (mostly kids), and most dog owners think it's funny
Dogs sicken the public with their allergens (severe allergies are considered a disability), and 1 in 20 people suffer from a crippling fear of dogs yet dogs are allowed into absolutely every public space
Police dogs attack innocent people regularly, often leaving them with PTSD and disfigurements
AND THE MOST HORRIFIC PART:
People continue to worship dogs and glorify dog ownership
Dogs are considered "man's best friend"
If you criticize dog ownership, you are viewed upon as a cold-hearted monster
If you admit you don't like dogs, you become a social outcast and everyone hates you
If, out of concern for humans and wildlife, you call for the only real solution to the stray/feral dog problem (it isn't TNR), people compare you to Hitler, send you death threats, and threaten to kill your children
Support Defenders of Humans and the Natural World on YouTube.
hm, that passenger recollection/statement reminded me of the single accident i've been in myself;
bus on icy road tried moving into the other lane of a two-lane road to avoid hitting the traffic ahead of us, then a car came from the other direction at normal speed and slammed into the driver's side of the bus, making it skid off the road and it's backside hit a tree.
i was in the 3rd row of seats by the front-end of the bus, and barely felt the impact (like a small pothole), but the pair of people by the back of the bus hit their heads slightly.
the bus-driver was in a state of panic throughout, and the 6 passengers (myself included), didn't react too much aside from the normal fascination of looking through the windows in the semi-dark to try and make out what had happened with the car.
-everyone survived and i don't think people in the meeting car even shed any blood,
but the ones of us on the bus, waiting some 20-30 minutes for things to calm down to know if we could/should leave or not, spoke to each other in a calm fashion, with at least one of us asking a couple of times if everyone was doing okay. the bus-driver spent most of the time checking on the people in the car, but the poor bloke looked fairly young and for all he knew he'd just killed someone.
-but the whole; asking each other how they're doing, and remaining calm/telling everyone not to panic from the video, reminded me of it. i don't know if anyone would have panicked on the bus (aside from the driver), but while shook, no one was screaming or crying, just inconvenienced and calling their family/friends that they'd be late home or to come pick them up
It's impossible to ever really know for sure if somebody is suicidal but in this case it really does sound like some kind of incapacitation. It must have been a nightmare for his family, dealing with his sudden death and on top of that the accusations that he caused the crash on purpose.
I'm pretty sure another video covered this and there happened to already be automatic stops, but they weren't sufficient. Or maybe I'm thinking of another train accident.
With Newson over shooting platforms previously, I wonder if this had happened before without him realising, then on this occasion it was the one that caused this horrendous crash, sad this he was vilified for being drunk and deliberately causing it
I love that the passengers all worked to keep each other calm, that's so important in such a precarious situation.
I was living in London at the time and had a friend, Mike Armstrong, who always rode in the first car of that train. On that morning he left his flat but returned to pick up an expensive pen he had been given as a present and missed the train on which he would certainly have been killed. His pen became legendary among his friends!
He probably was suffering from narcolepsy or insomnia. I remember quite a few times where I had taken Benadryl as part of a medical treatment for my illness. The Benadryl was still in my system when I would be driving home, and a few times I had fallen asleep for what seemed like seconds at the wheel. Scary shit nodding off when you're driving. Needless to say, I stopped taking Benadryl along with my treatment and I haven't fallen asleep at the wheel since.
I think this Moorgate crash might have been like that. The operator of the train probably had his eyes open as he was approaching the station and he might've thought things were okay, but he either was nodding off due to not getting enough sleep or had pain meds or sleeping pills in his system causing him to have a hard time staying sharp and alert.
At the time of the crash, the NCL was planned for reintegration with British Rail, and this happened not long after: the line closed in October 1975 and reopened as a BR line the following August. In the 80s the line showed up on Tube maps as a stretch of BR line labelled "GN Electrics" (GN for Great Northern) and ran through into north London and then Hertfordshire using class 313 trains (only recently replaced). Your pictures at 9:50 and 10:08 showing Northern and Metropolitan Line platforms are therefore inaccurate as the NCL platforms (which I've used) have railway company signage with some Network South-East features remaining. The leaflet or poster you show at 1:03 date from shortly after the crash.
Even if it was sucide, you'd imagine witnesses would report a reaction, like bracing, wincing, etc as he entered the station.
I'm not sure why, but the idea that the crash was caused by the driver suffering a seizure is scarier than him deliberately committing suicide.
My dad had a seizure while driving home from work once, got into a pretty bad crash and had no idea it had happened until two police officers showed up the next day to arrest him. He just drove home on autopilot and was confused when he realised the front of his car was ruined.
Not so fun fact: People who are clinically depressed & have lost all touch with caring about anything can carry on day to day acting as if nothing is wrong. idc if it's relevant to what happened in this story, or not. But hearing "oh, he was so happy & had plans after work..blahblahblah" means nothing when someone just can't keep their head up any longer.
Sugar is a poison
Very small correction: The "Northern City line" is not the same thing as the Northern line. The Northern City line is today run as part of Great Northern Railways, and goes beyond London up to Welwyn Garden City and Hertford North. It's the "Tube line that isn't a Tube line" because it's underground through most of Central London. The imagery you used of the Northern line towards the end is very slightly misleading. Otherwise, a thoroughly well-researched piece.
Wow. My brother had a seizure JUST like that while he was driving us home one day. It was just like he checked out. For several minutes.
He’d had epilepsy for years and I’d seen several of his seizures before, but none looked like this. This was just weird.
Anyway, his hands just kinda slump down, but he was still looking forward…he was just out of it. I put the car in neutral and grab the wheel until we stopped. (We lived in the country thank goodness…)
By the time we’d stopped, he was coming out of it. Asking what was going on. Why we were stopped. He didn’t remember anything.
He was also a huge jokester, too – So I couldn’t tell if he was playing a joke on me at first.
After that incident, he had to lose his license. Understandably.
5:37 that guy was SMART!!!!!
I can't stand sitting on my back porch with a fan directly on me for 10 minutes here in Florida in the summer. To have to rescue people trapped in this crash in 105° heat while wearing all of the protective gear, I just can't. I can understand the 20 minute shifts and definitely rehydrating those rescuers.
If in doubt, accelerate to ramming speed.
The driver could very well have had a stroke or heart attack or any number of medical emergencies the caused him to black out. The witness description given sounds like the driver had a stroke causing him to spasm and being unable to release the brake.
I'm not a doctor, but that had "absence seizure" written all over it. Scarily enough, people who have those can go years without ever knowing it thanks to their subtle nature. It looks like this poor man just had one happen at the absolute worst time possible, and it cost him, and everyone else.
Weird, but this is the 2nd video I have a connection to. My sister was much older than me, getting married when I was just 4yrs old in 1966. At the time my family lived in Eastcote but my sister + her husband were living in Sth Ealing + had been visiting us that day. They always had their journey planned out + we were painfully aware that they were meant to have caught that train…!! There was absolutely nothing my parents could do to find out if they were on it or not + as these were the days before we got a telephone, we had no contact. I remember the days that followed as everyone was terrified of the outcome, but had to hold on + wait for any news. Eventually the anguish ended as we got the answer…It turned out that my sister + brother-in-law had actually missed their connecting train so were late for this one + as they also, at that time had no phone, we had to wait for them to get home when my sister could then write a quick letter letting us know what happened. I will never forget the relief when the letter finally arrived after taking 2-3 days to be delivered…!! We must be a lucky family in some ways as I missed a bomb in London by about 15mins + my dad left the Ideal Home Exhibition 5mins before that explosion. He knew the policewoman who lost her leg in the blast…!!!
Plice…
Maybe the guy used all of his sugar.
I highly doubt that he did that on purpose. It did sound like he had an absent seizure though. My girlfriend sister has epilepsy and I would be talking to her and then all of a sudden she would just go blank and not respond to me talking. I thought she was just a bitch but it turns out it was a seizure. I felt like an asshole after I found that out
5:38 doctors can just take stuff from pharmacy's ?
Can't imagine the horrors that the survivors and rescuers experienced, what a terrible tradgedy.
I work with a guy who suffers “a cent die urea”. He will be sitting at his desk with his hands seemingly typing but the screen show nonsense. He’s not allowed to drive but until he had his first one he was a crane operator. Lots of people are probably lucky his first one happened at home while he was watching a movie with his wife & not while he was moving shipping containers.
The underground used to have a remarkable and unique odor, both trains and stations. It was not unpleasant but very specific to the system. Some of it was brake dust and electrical motors I suppose but it was more than that. I wonder if it still smells like that nowadays.
Seizure, poor guy
So many complicated theories… it's also possible he just zoned out. :/ I mean… sometimes when I am driving, all of a sudden I snap to it and realize I don't remember the last 10 minutes.
It’s hard to picture someone being this depressed without their family or colleagues noticing anything. The rare seizure condition seems more likely to me.
Horrible horrible actions… But the name Leslie Newson will be remembered by history…
And the victims remembered as numbers