At the time I was working for BP and therefore I remember this ghastly disaster. Early in the morning we were all in shock by hearing this terrible news. I worked on the 9th floor (exploration) and Medical was on the 7th. Medical asked us all to donate blood, so we rushed down. It happened to be that they had already enough donors. So many people from BP were already down there to donate blood. Maybe we were needed at a later stage we were told.

BP ordered us to phone home to tell them that we were alive, because many of us were used to take that tube. When I phoned to Holland my mother hadn't heard of it yet.

Quite often during lunch hour I went outside the building and went for a stroll or took the tube at Moorgate Station. Although it is so many years ago I very much remember many details. Still I see people running up and down. And up till now I still can hear the voices of the men or women who were selling their papers with the latest news about the disaster. And everytime we were told of another dead person. It was very very ghastly. But what I remember mostly is that terrible noise of the sirens from the ambulances. The whole week it went on. It took a year or more to get that noise out of my head. And even now I start to shiver by thinking of that terrible week. And I wasn't even sitting in the train. So you imagine what it must have been for those people who were in the tube themselves. Also the police woman whose foot had been amputated I remember very well. How much I would like to know how she is doing. I am living in Holland again but this disaster I will never forget as long as I live.



Tine Dorothy Kooiman (Texel, the Netherlands)

remember watching it on tv live, when arrived home from work-aged 27 then.

I can just remember this happening. Look at the footage now, it all seems so antiquated. It must have been horrendous down there for those poor people

As it still seems to be a mystery as to why the driver didn't stop the train, the possibility of the tragedy being a deliberate action doesn't seem to have been ruled out. In fact, an author whose father was killed in the tragedy seems to think it WAS suicide. The key question into the tragedy is why the driver didn't stop the train. It was apparently confirmed that there was nothing wrong with the train and nothing wrong with the signalling. The driver even managed to stop the train by the platform so many times before - including that morning. Why, I ask? Why didn't the driver stop the train? By letting go of the so-called "dead man's handle" he would therefore have automatically stopped the train.



If it wasn't suicide, what could it have been? Well, it's been suggested, but not proven, that the driver had a momentary brain spasm that made him freeze. After all, I do believe he had £300 and was going to buy his daughter a car that afternoon. I wonder it he was going to buy her a brand new Mini? Back in 1975, wasn't £300 sufficient to buy such a car?



What about the teenage policewoman who had to have a foot amputated at the scene? I hope it would've been to necessary to amputate the foot anyway! I think this is quite possible because her foot was probably severely crushed by the wreckage.



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