"Troy Steadman" wrote in message
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"Mark Brader" wrote in message


Which disaster that took place in what is now (and maybe was then,
I won't be specific) a part of the London Underground system is
mentioned in the Oxford English Dictionary?

Google suggests the London Underground has been mercifully spared too
many disasters - not sure where "accident" finishes and "disaster"
starts mind you...

The crush at Bethnal Green and the wartime bombing of the other "B"
stations...

Moorgate, Kings Cross...

Are there others? I would have expected some diastrous tunnel fires
under steam traction.

The way the question is posed indicates that it is not a London Underground
disaster, as the OP says he does not know whether it was part of the
Underground at that time, but it is now. Besides, I don't have an OED to
check.

Marcus

Mark Brader:
Which disaster that took place in what is now (and maybe was then,
I won't be specific) a part of the London Underground system is
mentioned in the Oxford English Dictionary?

Marcus Fox:
The way the question is posed indicates that it is not a London
Underground disaster, as the OP says he does not know whether it
was part of the Underground at that time ...

I didn't say I didn't know; I said I wasn't saying.
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Toronto | about are either safe or dangerous or useless,
| depending on their prejudices." -- Tim Freeman