The 'lucky' runaway train incident on Friday 13th

Last Friday (the 13th, no less), I broke the terrifying story about a runaway train on the Tube.

Yesterday, I managed to get hold of a video that was taken inside a control room, which sheds further light on what actually happened.

You can see this footage in my video report below.

It seems that the runaway engineering train was a lot closer to a passenger train than we had originally thought.

Sources close to the ongoing investigation say the closest the trains got was just 600m.

Last Friday London Underground had said they were 1km apart.

But there are insiders who, having seen this footage of the signalling display from inside the control room, think it could be much closer.

Although we won't know exactly until the results of the investigation are published, one source told me he thought it looked very much like they were just a platform length apart.

I've also seen leaked documents that say the driver of the engineering train jumped clear at Highgate Tube, while a platform at Camden Town station was evacuated.

Furthermore, the engineering train had no brakes.

Needless to say, the consequences of this incident could have been much, much worse.

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