A memorial has been erected to honour those killed and injured in Britain’s worst Tube train crash, nearly 40 years after the disaster.
Forty-three people died and 73 were injured in the crash at Moorgate station on February 28, 1975. The memorial, in Finsbury Square, will be unveiled in a ceremony on July 28.
Campaigners raised £1,500 and Islington council made up the balance of the £6,000 cost.
Television comedy writer Laurence Marks, whose 68-year-old father Bernard was among the victims, said: “People need to know that one morning during rush hour something went terribly wrong and people died and many more were injured.”
Historian Richard Jones appealed to raise money for the memorial through advertisements in his local newspaper. His fundraising began after he was contacted by a woman whose grandfather had died at Moorgate and he subsequently found other relatives of victims.
The crash happened at 8.46am on the Highbury branch of the Northern City Line, which was part of the London Underground network at the time. A southbound train failed to stop at Moorgate and crashed into the wall at the end of the tunnel. No fault was found with the train equipment and a government report found that the driver had failed to slow the train, but there was insufficient evidence to determine the exact cause.
The 4ft by 3ft memorial is on the City Road side of the square, to the north of Moorgate station.
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