RAILWAYS

Detailed account of this major Railway accident on the London Underground in 1975 which killed 42 people. 208pp, illustrated.

(Encased in protective covering.)

“Sally Holloway was a BBC journalist who first started working for the corporation around the time of the Second World War. To have been employed as a woman in those days underlines just how talented she was as a writer because otherwise she wouldn’t have got a look in. One day she attended a lecture about the Moorgate disaster and this book came as a result of that day. The book is an extraordinary account of an unbelievable event in London’s history. Holloway combines forensic analysis of the disaster and recovery whilst maintaining a personal focus on the lives of those who were passengers and first responders. That balance is so difficult to achieve and yet Holloway achieved it flawlessly. It is a book of staggering quality and anyone with an interest in non-fictional writing, women’s writing, in London, in social history, in the work of the emergency services and in what happened that day on Platform 19 at Moorgate is absolutely encouraged to read this book.”