The tragedy took place on the Northern City line, which runs out of Moorgate ... A second plaque was placed on the wall of Moorgate station a year later.

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.

At the time, the Northern line had a branch known as the Northern City Line, which ran between Drayton Park ... on the train and it accelerated rather than slowed as it entered Moorgate station. The ...