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The incident would have not been so bad had the train been in a tube-sized tunnel, as the other carriages would not have been able to rise above the first and land on top of it. Nor would this have been quite so bad had the platforms been those of the average tube station, for similar reasons. However, the train was a tube train, but the platform tunnels were designed for mainline trains which are much larger.
The crash had two results. Firstly, the southern end of the Northern City Line platforms (where the crash happened) was extensively rebuilt. Secondly, automatic systems for stopping trains at dead-ends, such as at these platforms, were introduced into all dead-ends on the Underground. These systems are known as
As for the incident itself, the cause was never determined.
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