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	Taxpayers face unlimited fine for errors that led to Ladbroke Grove rail crash - Independent Online Edition > Transport
		Network Rail, the state-backed organisation which took over from the private sector Railtrack, yesterday admitted there had been a catalogue of errors that contributed to the Ladbroke Grove crash in 1999 in which 31 people died and 400 were injured.
		Sources close to the Network Rail argued that the primary cause of the accident was the failure of driver Michael Hodder to stop at a red light as he drove a Thames Trains commuter service out of Paddington station.
		The present rail infrastructure company is a "not for profit" organisation with no orthodox shareholders and so the fine will be paid out of funds supplied by the Exchequer and by passengers through rail fares.
	news.independent.co.uk /uk/transport/article1945767.ece (766 words)

	Ladbroke Grove rail crash: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The british rail class 165 "network turbo" diesel multiple units were built by brel at york works from 1990-92....
		Paddington station or london paddington is the name of a major national rail and london underground station complex in the paddington area of london....
		The southall rail crash occurred on september 19, 1997, on the great western railway line at southall, west london....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/la/ladbroke_grove_rail_crash.htm (2100 words)

	Network Rail accepts Ladbroke Grove blame - Telegraph
		Network Rail is facing a huge fine after today after pleading guilty to health and safety offences which led to the 1999 Ladbroke Grove train crash in which 31 people died and 400 were injured.
		The previous record fine in the rail industry were those imposed just over a year ago in the wake of the October 2000 Hatfield rail disaster in which four people died.
		Network Rail was fined £3.5 million for Railtrack’s part in the disaster and Balfour Beatty, the contractor in charge of maintaining the track was given a £10 million penalty, later reduced on appeal to £7.5 million.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=5JWJMZO5PNGCXQFIQMGCFGGAVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2006/10/31/urail7000.xml (463 words)

	1999 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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		July 8 - Charles Conrad, astronaut (motorcycle crash) (b.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1999 (4763 words)

	Deadly business - Hazards Magazine and WHIN
		Five rail executives charged over the Hatfield crash in which four people died and more than 100 were injured in October 2000 were this week cleared by an Old Bailey jury of breaking safety rules.
		However, Network Rail, the successor organisation to Railtrack, which was responsible for Britain's railway infrastructure at the time the King's Cross-Leeds train was derailed at 115mph, was convicted of safety breaches.
		Rail unions have reacted angrily to the acquittal of five rail managers on charges relating to the Hatfield rail crash, and say the rail executives responsible should be facing jail time.
	www.hazards.org /deadlybusiness/newsarchive2005.htm (10408 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| Ladbroke Grove inquiry at a glance
		The primary cause of the crash was the failure of the Thames Trains driver Michael Hodder to stop at a red signal as he left London.
		Mr Hodder, 31, was killed in the crash.
		Thames Trains' removal of all in-carriage emergency hammers before the crash "compromised the safety of passengers".
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/1396484.stm (418 words)

	Railway Privatisation - the role of Her Majesty's Railway Inspectorate (HMRI)......................
		Further evidence of SWT’s and the HMRI inaction after Ladbroke Grove is also seen in connection with my continuing campaign in connection with the review of the risk assessment of drivers' restructuring.
		It was recognised before rail privatisation in 1995 that the privatised TOC ’s could attempt to radically change driver’s hours of work, and that stringent risk assessments of these changes would be needed to ensure that the new working patterns were safe.
		Jane Binyon - an ex Rail Inspector writing about the ‘close relationship’ between the HMRI and the rail industry, writes that many inspectors come from the industry usually in mid career and are therefore reluctant to police their ex colleagues in the industry and want to avoid confrontation.
	workplacevictimisation.net /victimisedwhistleblower.html (6111 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| Ladbroke Grove crash report
		Mrs Cox, whose picture was plastered across many newspapers in the crash aftermath was involved in the arduous task of locating and freeing bodies from one of the trains.
		Three days after the crash lifting gear is brought in to move the train from the tracks.
		The Health and Safety Executive said the immediate cause of the crash appeared to be a commuter train jumping a red light, but it said the root causes were likely to be complex.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/1396613.stm (361 words)

	Danger Ahead! - Historic Railway Accidents
		Selective reporting by the media of the Cullen inquiry serves to obscure what should be the true focus of attention in seeking the truth of the Ladbroke Grove tragedy.
		The accidents in Norway on 4 January, 2000 and at Paddington on 5 October 1999 have produced a new fear, especially to accident watchers in Britain and on the Continent, which is the emergence of FIRE.
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	danger-ahead.railfan.net (378 words)

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