Tube Trouble

A tube train was derailed in a tunnel on Saturday afternoon. There were no fatalities but about 30 of the 800 passengers were treated for various levels of injury.

Current theory seems to be that a motor fell off the underside of one of the rear carriages. All of the rolling stock on that line has been taken out of stock whilst it is checked out (and, presumably, bolts are tightened). There was a lot of talk on the news about how it was over fifteen years since Kings Cross and over twenty-five years since Moorgate, but I can’t help thinking that there’s a major disaster just around the corner on the tube. It’s been horribly underfunded for decades.

The tube station where it happened is right outside where I’m currently working. They are saying that it’ll be closed for weeks. I’ll have a twenty minute walk from the nearest open station.

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