Which is the most dangerous/tragic tube line?

[cybertect]

Plus there was the tragedy at Bethnal Green during the war, but that's more to do with people using the station as a shelter than the line itself.

Balham had a nasty one in 1940

During the Second World War, Balham was one of many deep tube stations designated for use as a civilian air raid shelter. At 20:02 on October 14, 1940, a 1400 kg semi-armour piercing fragmentation bomb fell on the road above the northern end of the platform tunnels, causing a large crater into which a bus then crashed. The northbound platform tunnel partially collapsed and was filled with earth and water from the fractured water mains and sewers above, which also flowed through the cross-passages into the southbound platform tunnel, with the flooding and debris reaching to within 100 yards of Clapham South. Sixty-five civilians in the station were killed, according to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC)[5] - although other sources report 68 - and more than seventy injured. The damage at track level closed the line to traffic between Tooting Bec and Clapham Common, but was repaired rapidly with the closed section and station being reopened on 12 January 1941[6]. There is a memorial plaque in the station ticket hall commemorating this event, although it incorrectly states that 64 lives were lost, as do some other sources.

e2a: the London Transport Museum claim 111 died.

 

[HackneyE9]

Bizarre synchronicity - I've just come back from Balham station ( a place I must have visited all of three times in 17 years in London), noticed the plaque, and, quiet sweetly, someone had put three lapel-sized poppies on the plaque.

RIP.

 

[Mitre10]

I somehow always assume a person 'under' a train implies a fatality. Whether it's a LU term or not I am not sure... but survival under a running train seems highly unlikely to me..

Its not like a normal trainline though, a lot of tube stations have the "pits" on the platforms so quite a few might fall into those and just get away with (probably very serious) injuries and still survive.

 

[Bungle73]

Its not like a normal trainline though, a lot of tube stations have the "pits" on the platforms so quite a few might fall into those and just get away with (probably very serious) injuries and still survive.

Yes, I believe they're called "suicide pits". People do survive being run over by National Rail trains. I used to be on a course run by someone who threw themselves under a train at Rochester. He survived but had to have his legs amputated.

Another film featuring horror on the London Underground is "Creep".

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

Another film featuring horror on the London Underground is "Creep".

*shivers*
I've seen that film and it scared the shit out of me. I should know better by now than to watch stupid films late at night by myself. It's not a great film but it really freaked me out.

 

[i386]

*shivers*
I've seen that film and it scared the shit out of me. I should know better by now than to watch stupid films late at night by myself. It's not a great film but it really freaked me out.

Was the film played around 0.30am, someday in 2007 on Channel 4? I also watched it. It was indeed freakish ... especially you recognised that was where you walked past every normal day