A wooden escalator built a hundred years ago covered with a hundred years of Grease dirt and grime and God knows what kind of garbage underneath - and they thought nothing was wrong ?
London Underground was at that time going through a phase where it was doing everything in its power to run on the governments budget and that meant trying to run the system as cheaply as possible and in the end safety seemed to slip through pretty much every single crack that was available. So many escalators on the network had caught fire in simliar circumstances before Kings Cross occured and the recommendations made after those fires such as fitting escalators and their machine rooms with smoke and heat detection equipment was simply ignored and not followed up which in my opinion is just pure neglegence. I guess the only positive thing about this terrible tragedy was that lessons were learned and the tube is now alot safer than it used to be.
Maybe so, but they didn't understand what the trench effect was. The trach was the enclosed U shape of the escalator from the surface you stand on to the hand rails on either side. It does not mean the void underneath the steps.
A wooden escalator built a hundred years ago covered with a hundred years of Grease dirt and grime and God knows what kind of garbage underneath - and they thought nothing was wrong ?
London Underground was at that time going through a phase where it was doing everything in its power to run on the governments budget and that meant trying to run the system as cheaply as possible and in the end safety seemed to slip through pretty much every single crack that was available. So many escalators on the network had caught fire in simliar circumstances before Kings Cross occured and the recommendations made after those fires such as fitting escalators and their machine rooms with smoke and heat detection equipment was simply ignored and not followed up which in my opinion is just pure neglegence. I guess the only positive thing about this terrible tragedy was that lessons were learned and the tube is now alot safer than it used to be.
This tragedy did indeed change London Underground for ever - and for the better. LU changed forever yet again after 7/7, some 18 years later.
The 1987 fire at King's Cross Station in London reminds a history buff like myself of the 2019 fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
You seem to have forgotten something
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Seems like the British haven't learned anything in 30 years
They don’t compare, people died at King’s Cross, the Notre Dame was just a building
Thames News was proper, factual news with crews at real life events. Now it's just gossip or emotive, heart strings filler.
Maybe so, but they didn't understand what the trench effect was. The trach was the enclosed U shape of the escalator from the surface you stand on to the hand rails on either side. It does not mean the void underneath the steps.
wooden escalator = match
don't make a wooden escalator