Thames News - Kilburn tube crash

This is very interesting. It is a very different style of reporting from that which you might see today on either national or regional news. Simple reporting of facts with an interview with someone who knows what he is talking about! No suggestion that the interviewer is trying to put words into the interviewee's mouth. A lost age!

Arun

It is indeed - most of the video is about Kilburn (a 1972 stock train also appears in the footage, but I think was on an adjacent track and not directly involved) but there is also mention of a collision in similar circumstances at Leyton, hence the shot of 1962 stock at the end.

This one is linked on to the end. A 1989 report promising a new fleet, ATO, driverless trains, TBTC etc and predicting a timescale of 1994 for the fleet.
Interesting that the number of passengers per day, according to the TfL website's figure of 1.3 billion passengers per year, is just under 3.6 million per day, versus the 0.8 million quoted as the predicted figure for 1994. That's 4.5 times as many.

Sadly Holly McCormick who was featured died a few years later - far too young for such a bright lady.

Ironic that it took almost humiliating the government to get them to sign off the PFI for the trains and then the signalling and control upgrade had to wait another 20 years to be completed. LU got there in the end but circumstances and demand had overwhelmed the line by then which is why we face 7 years of work at Bank and still face another stage of upgrades. The Northern Line's not unique in that. Just about every line has had the same challenges.