The London tube's system first ever fatalities

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The first ever fatalities on London's deep level tube system occurred very soon after the City & South London Railway had opened.

The first instance saw a passenger killed by a lift and the second an enthusiast given an opportunity to see the CSLR Mather & Platt engine at work in fact fell under the carriages the locomotive was hauling.

This article is however more about the lift incident as that was undoubtedly the tube's very first ever fatality.

The tube’s first ever fatalities.

The first ever fatality on the tube occurred one hundred and thirty one years ago this month and this occurred in the very early months of the then new City and South London Railway, which as many know, is now part of London’s Northern Line

That wasn’t an accident on the tracks or the platform but rather at its lifts. Thus Oval station has both a distinction of having been the tube’s first ever fatal accident and the first involving a lift.