King’s Cross – 25 Years

It really doesn’t seem possible that it’s now 25 years since the fire at King’s Cross station in London which killed 31 people.

It’s not (for me at least) one of those events where you always remember where you were when you heard about it, but it was still a major event, and brought about so many changes with train stations, including replacing all the wooden escalators with metal ones, banning smoking in stations (it had already been banned on the trains, but was OK in stations) and secondary influences and improvements for things like fire-fighting services and so on.

But knowing it’s 25 years ago is a real surprise – time flies, and all that jazz.