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	Clapham Junction railway station - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Clapham Junction is a railway station located in Battersea in the London Borough of Wandsworth.
		Clapham Junction has long laid claim to being the busiest railway station in the United Kingdom, and on 17 June 2005 changed its signage and claim to be the busiest in Europe.
		Clapham, a mile to the east of the site, was a longer-established and entirely more fashionable village and so the railway companies - which sought to attract a middle and upper class clientele - decided to adopt the grander of the two names.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Clapham_Junction_railway_station (1418 words)

	Clapham Junction - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Clapham Junction is a railway station located on St. John's Hill in the south-west of Battersea in London, England; the area around the station is by now commonly known as Clapham Junction, reflecting the influence of the station upon its locality.
		Clapham Junction is in the UK used as a simile to describe a very busy place - like Clapham Junction.
		Short History of Clapham Junction (http://www.wandsworth.gov.uk/NR/Wandsworth/localpdf/planning/plothconclapjunc.pdf) prepared by Wandsworth Council, and from which much of the information in the history section of this entry is sourced.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Clapham_Junction_railway_station (1312 words)

	The Ultimate Clapham Junction rail crash - American History Information Guide and Reference
		As required the driver stopped his train at the next signal post telephone to report that his train had passed a red signal to the signalman at Clapham Junction 'A' signal box.
		Subsequent crashes such as at Southall in 1997 and Ladbroke Grove in 1999 led to further recommendations for the introduction of ATP, and although it has been installed on some lines, it has not to date been specified for the entire network.
		In the statement on the Ladbroke Grove crash, the Department for Transport sought to make the point that "no workable system was available in Britain" at the time.
	www.historymania.com /american_history/Clapham_Junction_rail_crash (694 words)

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		Rail regulators are concerned with the degree and form of regulatory control needed to ensure the protection of people in particular, and also property, from incidents involving the railway system.
		The second issue is that rail users may be considered to not have control over factors that affect the safety of their trip, and hence may seek greater assurance about the level of safety.
		However, to use this as the criterion against which rail regulators set standards to be met by track managers and train service operators would, given current knowledge and resources, result in regulators failing to meet their charter or require them to close railways because of the rail industry’s inability to perform to this standard.
	www.ntc.gov.au /filemedia/Reports/NTCRailRiskTolerabilityJan05.doc (12473 words)

	Ladbroke Grove rail crash - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Ladbroke Grove rail crash (also known as the Paddington train crash) was an English rail accident which occurred on 5 October 1999 in which thirty-one people died.
		This was the second major accident on the Great Western Main Line in just over two years, the other being the Southall rail crash of September 1997, just a few miles further west, and this severely damaged public confidence in the safety of Britain's privatised railway system.
		Ladbroke Grove rail crash, Cause, The disaster site, List of fatalities, Dramatisation, External links, References, History of London, Railway accidents in the United Kingdom, 1999 in England, Rail accidents in London, Disasters in England, Public inquiries, Kensington andamp; Chelsea and 1990s in rail transport.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Ladbroke_Grove_rail_crash (946 words)

	RMT Bristol Rail Branch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Clapham rail crash was the worst train accident of recent times.
		In 1998 after the Paddington rail crash Deputy PM John Prescott said "money was no object" in upgrading railway safety systems.
		An inquiry led by Lord Cullen into fatal crashes at Southall in 1997 and at Ladbroke Grove in 1999 once again called for ATP to be installed by 2010 on the railways.
	www.rmtbristolrail.org.uk /archives/00001177.shtml (488 words)

	Britain's Paddington rail crash claims 26 lives
		It is the highest death toll in a UK rail accident since the Clapham disaster in December 1988, when 35 people lost their lives.
		The crash occurred on the same stretch of line as the Southall rail crash in 1997, which killed seven people and injured 150.
		Following the Paddington crash Railtrack stated: "The railway industry accepts full responsibility for the dreadful incident." Labour's Transport Secretary John Prescott said there would be a public inquiry into the crash, but a department official later declined to set a date for the hearing.
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/oct1999/rail-o06.shtml (1046 words)

	Clapham Junction rail crash
		The Clapham Junction rail crash was a serious railway accident involving two collisions between three commuter trains at 08:10 on the morning of 12 December 1988.
		The collisions occurred 800 m (half a mile) south west of Clapham Junction railway station in south west London.
		However, Mark 1 based multiple units similar to those involved in the Clapham accident were still operating on South London commuter lines as late as 2005, some 17 years later.
	www.libraryoflibrary.com /E_n_c_p_d_Clapham_Junction_rail_crash.html (854 words)

	Clapham Junction Resource Center - clapham junction accident (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The station's main entrance is from St. John's Hill, into a foot tunnel some 15 ft (4.6 m) wide running transversely beneath the eastern end of the 17 platforms, and on to a northern exit, which has restricted opening hours.
		The coach road from London to yoga clapham junction Guildford passed slightly to the south of the location of the station, passing a public house called clapham junction station The Foulcan at a crossroads in the valley between St. John's and Lavender Hill.
		At the time of the construction of the station, mish mash in clapham junction Battersea was mostly associated with industry and poor working people.
	www.taxgloss.com /Tax-Department_Stores_A_-_C-/Clapham_Junction.html (1207 words)

	Clapham Junction rail crash custom signs Clapham Junction rail crash
		The Hidden Inquiry into the Clapham rail crash found that a supervisor had noticed some loose wiring during an inspection but had not told anyone about it because he did not want to "rock the boat".
		The supervisor's reluctance to raise the issue was characteristic of a form of self-censorship which organisations such as Public Concern at Work (PCaW), founded in 1993, have sought to overcome.
		It is not apparent, therefore, that ATP on the lines out of Waterloo would have prevented this accident, since the ATP could have also been bypassed by the false feed wrong side failure.
	www.find-ask.com /C/Encyclopedia/Clapham_Junction_rail_crash/Clapham_Junction_rail_crash.html (949 words)

	Clapham Junction rail crash - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Image:Clapham Junction Railway Accident - Hidden Report cover - HMSO.jpg Clapham Junction in southwest London – or a point a half-mile (800 m) to the southwest of the station – was the scene of a serious railway accident involving two collisions between three commuter trains at 08:10 on the morning of December 12 1988.
		Thirty-five people died and more than a hundred were injured, making the crash one of the worst in the UK in recent times.
		A fourth train approaching also under false signals at the time managed to stop about 70 yd (60 m) clear of the rear of the Poole train.
	www.tvwiki.tv /wiki/Clapham_Junction_rail_crash (742 words)

	CNN.com - British travellers face rail chaos - October 28, 2000
		Twenty-five miles of track are being replaced after engineers found 1,850 rails with hairline cracks similar to those which caused the Hatfield crash that killed four people.
		Clapham Junction in south London, one of the busiest railway interchanges in Europe, will be partially shut to allow track inspections to take place.
		Rail chiefs have announced a series of plans to improve safety and pledged to put into place measures to fix faulty tracks around the country within two weeks amid warnings of more delays and growing lack of public confidence in the rail industry.
	edition.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/europe/UK/10/28/rail.delays.reut/index.html (436 words)

	Death toll could be as high as 100 in London rail crash
		The accident could yet be the worst, in terms of deaths, since a crash at Harrow and Wealdstone in West London in October 1953, when 112 were killed and 340 injured, after two express trains collided and a third ran into the wreckage.
		Since 1988 there have been six fatal crashes on Britain's railways, including that at Southall in 1997 when seven people died and around 150 were injured as an InterCity train from South Wales ploughed into a freight train in almost exactly the same spot as Tuesday's Paddington crash.
		Investigations into the Paddington crash are to concentrate on the behaviour of the Thames turbo train "following reports that it passed a signal at danger", it was announced Wednesday.
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/oct1999/rail-o07.shtml (1171 words)

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	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Purley station rail crash was a train accident on the British railway system that occurred just to the north of Purley railway station in the London Borough of Croydon on Saturday 4 March 1989, leaving six dead and 94 injured.
		Media pressure was intense following the previous year's accident at Clapham Junction.
		This accident illustrates the limitations of the British Rail Automatic Warning System which can be overridden by the driver as a matter of habit.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Purley_Station_rail_crash (372 words)

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	Double switching at AllExperts
		Double switching is the practice in railway signalling in particular of cutting the power to a relay in both the positive and negative sides, so that a single false feed of current to that relay is unlikely to cause a wrong side failure.
		The Clapham Junction rail crash of 1988 was caused in part by the lack of double switching (known as "double cutting" in the British Railway industry).
		In the dark, it was not possible to tell the true horizon in any way other than the attitude indicator, and so the plane crashed into the sea.
	en.allexperts.com /e/d/do/double_switching.htm (433 words)

	simoncox.com train times: Railnews Archives
		Chairman of Network Rail Ian McAllister has stated that they are 'raising the bar on train punctuality' - I ask why were they allowed to lower it in the first place.
		Cynical I may be but I have suffered, like all other rail commuters, years of neglect in the system and I will not now stand for the fake PR that's going to happen over the next couple of years on how they are improving the situation.
		Basically a researcher, Jonathon Houdmont, is suggesting that the rail companies market rail travel in the same way that cut price airlines market their flights.
	www.simoncox.com /trainblog/railnews (1932 words)

	CNN.com - Timeline: Tragedy on Britain's railways - May 10, 2002
		February 28, 2001 Ten people are killed after a Land Rover crashes down a motorway embankment onto a railway line near Selby, north Yorkshire, and is hit by a passenger train which is deflected into the path of an oncoming goods train.
		December 12, 1988 Three morning rush-hour trains are involved in a crash at Clapham Junction, south London, killing 35 people.
		The UK's worst train crash was on May 22, 1915, when a troop train collided with a passenger train at Gretna Green, killing 227 people.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/europe/UK/10/17/railcrash.history/index.html (289 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Hot Topics - Transport - Railways (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Railtrack now believes they may have fallen off because they were set less than four turns from the edge of their bolts after incorrect installation.
		Potters Bar was the latest in a catalogue of disasters, which mars the record of rail transport in Britain.
		Centrifugal force pushes the wheel against the rail on the outside of the curve, and the wheel flange exerts an enormous amount of pressure against the rail.
	www.bbc.co.uk /science/hottopics/transport/railways.shtml (750 words)

	Fodor's Travel Guides \| Forums Messages
		The "slam door" commuter trains were seen as unsafe because they are built largely of wood, so would disintegrate easily in a crash.
		Train crashes are, of course, extremely rare and even these carriages are statistically much safer than cars.
		Slam door trains were supposed to be withdrawn from service following the deaths of 35 people in the Clapham junction rail crash of 1988.
	www.fodors.com /forums/pgMessages.jsp?fid=2&start=0&tid=34631891 (998 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Essex \| Former Tory minister Channon dies
		He was minister of trade between 1983 and 1986, trade and industry secretary between 1986 and 1987 and transport secretary between 1987 and 1989.
		His time as transport secretary was marred by the Clapham Junction rail crash at Britain's busiest station and the Lockerbie disaster where Pan Am flight 103 was downed by a bomb planted by Libyan agents.
		Tory leader in the House of Lords, Lord Strathclyde, said: "He was a much valued and well-respected member of the Conservative Party, and a great servant of our country as a member of the Cabinet in the 1980s.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/essex/6311529.stm (228 words)

	PB Network \| Issue 51 \| Safety Risk Management
		It then becomes a goal of the organisation and all individuals within to reduce the number of incidents occurring each month by reducing levels of risk where possible.
		Some organisations, notably in the aviation, rail and chemical industries, collect incident and near-incident data that are published regularly as a performance figure.
		As a management system, an effective SMS should be integrated with all other management systems within an organisation to ensure that safety and risk are considered as parts of the strategy and planning of business goals.
	www.pbworld.com /news_events/publications/network/tools/print_article.asp?referrer=/news_events/publications/network/Issue_51/51_07_JohnsonP_SafetyRiskManage.asp (1663 words)

	insurance Clapham_Junction_rail_crash - insurance-notes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Earlier this year, state legislators passed a law that cut property insurance that had been skyrocketing ever since 2004 when hurricanes started making...
		Large repair bills can come from low-speed crashes, insurance...
		WASHINGTON — Those minor fender benders might cost more than you think, according to new crash tests released yesterday by the insurance industry.
	www.insurance-notes.com /Clapham_Junction_rail_crash (1044 words)

	IT in Manufacturing - Reaching the key IT decision makers
		Critically, the Working Time Regulations as originally laid out specifically exempted air, road, rail and sea transport from the need to comply — the notorious ‘derogations’, or exclusions, that were negotiated in order to get some European governments (notably the UK government) to sign up to the principle of controls of working hours.
		In itself, this exclusion was regarded as bizarre at the time, and seen as a nod to the power of certain employer groups.
		Accidents as diverse as the 1988 Clapham Junction rail crash, for example, or the more recent Selby crash show only too clearly the consequences of a lack of sleep.
	www.themanufacturer.com /uk/it_in_manufacturing/article.html?contents_id=5250 (1525 words)

	Ufton Nervet rail crash (simoncox.com train times)
		This weekends rail crash has brought a bit of sobriety back to this blog and I do appreciate that there are people in mourning over lost ones.
		The consequences on such a packed train would be horrendous.
		After the Clapham Junction rail crash I understood that the inquest advised that overcrowding must stop.
	www.simoncox.com /trainblog/2004/11/ufton_nervet_ra.php (257 words)

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