A Brief History of: The Moorgate Tube Train Crash 1975 (Documentary)

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  @PlainlyDifficult · 5 years ago · pinned

  I hope you enjoy the video!!<br>Want to see more Railway Disasters let me know in the comments!!

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  @cilcipher · 5 years ago (edited)

  honestly the most disturbing and morbid part for me is hearing the 3 foot cab got crushed to 6 inches, i cant even imagine seeing that

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  @ExperimentIV · 5 years ago

  this makes me so sad. i really think the driver was developing absence seizures, considering he had almost done this two times before but came to again quickly enough to stop. he probably didn’t even know he had had an absence seizure those two times, because if he had, he might have taken time off. i just don’t think it could be suicide from all we know about him, nor microsleeps. he didn’t protect his face before the impact, which humans do instinctively, even during a suicide. i just feel so bad that he likely had a medical issue that could be so easily missed. he and everyone on that train deserved better.

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  @Turbopotato3000 · 5 years ago

  literally just saw wonder&apos;s documentary on this yesterday.<br>and gotta say, without all the overdramatization, your video comes off a lot more informative in half the time

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  @carmattvidz4426 · 3 years ago (edited)

  As a train driver myself, i feel this may be from a microsleep or just falling asleep all together. Back then we really did not test for sleep apona so this could have been the cause. Daydreaming would be my other pick as it something you can easily drift into. Daydreaming/autopiloting can be very dangerous as you can easily slip into it without knowing. You need to train your mind to snap out of it the moment you start falling into it. The reason why is you can easily drive pass a signal at caution in plain view and not see it. &nbsp;Some people find it hard to understand why this happens to train drivers given our level of responsibility. After a while the act of driving a train loaded with people becomes normalized. It feels no different than driving my kids to school in the car. Train driving can also be boring so your mind can wander and this autopilot state occurs. This autopilot state is really dangerous because you will miss obvious things like the fact you are running out of track.

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  @thejudgmentalcat · 5 years ago

  Not sure how they could determine anything from the conductor&apos;s body considering he became a human pancake, but judging from his driving up to that point, he was either really distracted by a personal matter or was having a series of mini strokes. My judgy opinion of course. Either way, we know it wasn&apos;t radiation!☢

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  @acesigma06 · 5 years ago

  According to the &nbsp;report, he still had his hands on &nbsp;the controls, so wouldn’t have raised his hands on impact, therefore making the reason even more confusing that on impact he was still in the driving position

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  @simonmay1671 · 5 years ago

  Had a lecture about this accident at med school, unfortunately the last man to be rescued had been trapped for so long (they couldn&apos;t get him out before the girl next to him was amputated out) that he eventually died about a month after the accident from Crush syndrome.

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  @nigel2093 · 4 years ago

  I used to work with a retired fireman who&apos;d been stationed in the Liverpool Street &nbsp;/ Farringdon &nbsp;/ Old Street area of London during the 60&apos;s, 70&apos;s and early 80&apos;s. &nbsp;He was a tough guy, and would talk about his time in the brigade all day, and the stories were truly great and very interesting. He attended Moorgate on the day of the disaster and in the days afterwards, he rarely talked about it and never in any detail other than to say how hot it was and how unpleasant the work was. His personality changed on the very rare occasions he recalled it. I think it&apos;s fair to say he was scarred by Moorgate above and beyond any other job he attended, &nbsp; Very sad for each and every person involved.

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  @MrNonDescript01 · 5 years ago

  @<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-50EnLMJaXM&amp;t=905">15:05</a> When mentioned that the front cab went from three feet down to six inches, I actually winced.

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  @daviddavidson2357 · 5 years ago

  I&apos;ve heard about this before and always figured absent seizure.<br>No idea if they can be triggered by light but the few times I&apos;ve been on the underground you always have a bunch of fluorescent lights leading up to a platform that would cause a strobe effect on approach.

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  @nibblesmcgurk · 5 years ago

  &quot;Transfers all the train&apos;s momentum to the occupants&quot; No, it transfers it to the thing it hit ... the passengers have their own momentum, which they keep, until they can brake (eg friction on the floor) or they hit something themselves (like the front of the carriage)

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