Seconds from Disaster

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5:00 PM to 6:00 PM

Monday 6 January

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The 1987 fire at King's Cross tube station, in which 31 people were killed when a match was discarded on a wooden escalator - despite a smoking ban two years previously. Initially small and containable, it became a fatal flashover and ranked as the worst blaze in the history of the London Underground