Stratford Tube Train Crash -- No Central Line trains are operating today between Leytonstone and Liverpool Street due to the crash and special buses are operating. This photograph shows a section of the queue for the buses at Leytonstone today. Disaster occurred on London's central line last night, when at 7 p.m. in the rush hour, a packed tube train crashed into the back of another at Stratford. Rescue workers have been toiling all night amidst the wreckage to bring out the dead and injured passengers. April 9, 1953. (Photo by Fox Photos).