King's Cross fire in the London Underground November 18, 1987 : a report

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King's Cross fire in the London Underground November 18, 1987 : a report

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The King's Cross tube station is one of the busiest and most complex in the London Underground network. In 1987, an average of 250,000 passengers were carried every weekday, with 100,000 in each of the peak periods 07:30 - 10:00 and 16:00 - 18:30. Up until 18 November 1987, fire had only killed one person in London's Underground since the Second World War. However, a serious fire in the Oxford Circus station in November 1984 prompted an independent report to criticise lax fire precautions. Th...

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Report

Date created

1992

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McNulty, Deane / Rielly, Philip

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http://hdl.handle.net/10092/8463

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Engineering / Civil Engineering / Civil Engineering not elsewhere classified

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