TV tonight: Kings Cross Fire

From what I can remember (& this is from pure memory - so please correct me if I'm inaccurate), a discarded match/cigarette started a small fire below an escalator, fulled initially by grease (probably petroleum based) and paper started the fire, which then was fanned by a wind vortex created by trains entering the station via the tunnels below. This in turn resulted in an inferno on the escalator which erupted into the ticket hall above. I think 30+ people perished, one of whom was only identified in recent years.

I can remember that night all too well. I was living in a boarding house at the time and was talking to one of the 6th formers in his room listening on LBC to regular updates.

One result was that the old wooden escalators were replaced along with smoking being banned throughout the network - no bad thing.

I remember this too, I was only 6 at the time. I remember the TVAM news with Gordon Honeycombe and remember how I found the tv pictures really scary. As 92 says, it is a vivid memory.