In Memory of the 31 People Who Lost Their Lives And To the Hundreds of Others Who Suffered Because of the Fire King's Cross 18th November 2025 Some General Thoughts in the Context of The King’s Cross Fire (38 Years On) It strikes me that officers of the British Transport Police, and its ancestor forces, have probably attended more major incidents than any other police force of a similar size. It is therefore sad that we lack a comprehensive set of personal accounts from officers who attended these dreadful events. From the many train crashes, terrorist outrages and wars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through to the continued terrorist attacks and the pandemic of the 21 st century I have seen but a handful of recollections written by the officers who were actually involved in these massive events in our history. These big events result in the production of vast amounts of formal paperwork which is very useful to the historian and to those whose job it...