Clive D. W. Feather wrote:
In article , Paul Weaver
writes
If the stairs or escalators were crowded then people are unlikely
to be killed when falling - too many people in the way!
Wasn't there an incident in the East End in WWII?

Bethnal Green.

One person tripped on the stairs, and around 150 were killed in the
resulting crush.

173 actually. Details at
http://tube.tfl.gov.uk/content/metro/03/0303/04/

(Ignore the photo captioned "The worst civilian disaster of the second
world war" which shows an unrelated incident, possibly the bombing of Bank
station.)

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Richard J.
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