I seem to remember an incident in the early 90's (1992?) where a tube
train had runaway due to the driver leaving his cab to see to a door
interlock problem. I was young at the time and this is all I can
remember, can anybody shed any light on the incident?

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I seem to remember an incident in the early 90's (1992?) where a tube
train had runaway due to the driver leaving his cab to see to a door
interlock problem. I was young at the time and this is all I can
remember, can anybody shed any light on the incident?

1990 Victoria Line:
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/9.81.html#subj2
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David Biddulph

"David Biddulph" groups [at] biddulph.org.uk wrote in message
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I seem to remember an incident in the early 90's (1992?) where a tube
train had runaway due to the driver leaving his cab to see to a door
interlock problem. I was young at the time and this is all I can
remember, can anybody shed any light on the incident?

1990 Victoria Line:
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/9.81.html#subj2
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David Biddulph

There was a simliar incident around the same time on the Piccadilly Line at
Kings Cross, where a driver done the same thing.
As the Piccadilly is not automatic, the train moved off because the now
sacked driver put a heavy bag on the dead mans handle to keep the brakes
off!!
The train got to Holloway Rd before it was stopped by a red signal.

On 1 Jan, 19:19, "Minger" wrote:
"David Biddulph" groups [at] biddulph.org.uk wrote in ...
There was a simliar incident around the same time on the Piccadilly Line at
Kings Cross, where a driver done the same thing.
As the Piccadilly is not automatic, the train moved off because the now
sacked driver put a heavy bag on the dead mans handle to keep the brakes
off!!
The train got to Holloway Rd before it was stopped by a red signal.

That's right!
I was absolutely sure that it was the piccadilly line although I
couldn't find anything about it.

Thanks for your responses.

Do you know if there's any other information about the incident?

In message , Minger writes

There was a simliar incident around the same time on the Piccadilly Line at
Kings Cross, where a driver done the same thing.
As the Piccadilly is not automatic, the train moved off because the now
sacked driver put a heavy bag on the dead mans handle to keep the brakes
off!!
The train got to Holloway Rd before it was stopped by a red signal.

Better than that, the driver in question was not only sacked but
subsequently jailed for putting his passengers at danger (or some
similar offence).
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