Suggestions that he had been drinking or had lost track of which station he was entering – he may have thought he was passing through Essex Road or Old Street stations on route to Moorgate ...

The disaster is considered to be the worst peacetime loss of life on the London Underground when a Northern City line train failed to stop at Moorgate Tube station and crashed into a dead end.

One of Britain’s worst transport disasters struck deep underground at the London Moorgate station – but 50 years on, the cause of the accident remains a mystery. A normal Friday morning ...