Another Kings Cross blaze?
NZPA I London The Kings Cross underground station may be set on fire again — to help investigators decide the cause of) the blaze which killed 31 London commuters five months ago. The 'disaster inquiry was told yesterday an inquiry team wanted to find out ! whether special paint used oh the escalator shaft was a main cause of the )) “flashover” experienced last November.
The only way to; do that would be to test a site very similar to that of the blaze, Queens Counsel for London ! Underground, Lionel Read, said. "There is plainly one — which is still there — the Piccadilly Line escalator at Kings Cross,” Mr Read said. ■
The tests would involve startingl a fire under the wooden) escalators where smouldering rubbish and grease began burning last November. I
The ! escalators are charred 1 , but still intact.
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Press, 13 April 1988, Page 11
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