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	Ladbroke Grove rail crash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		The immediate cause of the disaster was identified as Driver Hodder passing signal SN109 when it was showing a red aspect (technically known as a Signal Passed At Danger or SPAD), 563 metres before the impact point.
		On 20 September 2005, Derailed, a 90-minute documentary-drama programme based on the events at Ladbroke Grove, was aired on BBC1.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ladbroke_Grove_rail_disaster (892 words)

	List of rail accidents - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		January 8, 1962 – Harmelen, The Netherlands: The Harmelen train disaster, the worst railway accident in the history of The Netherlands, occurs when one passenger train driver misses a warning signal in fog and passes a red signal to collide nearly head-on with another passenger train.
		July 6, 1967 – Langenweddingen rail crash, Langenweddingen, East Germany near Magdeburg: Because of an overstretched cable preventing the proper operation of a level crossing's barriers, a local train collides with lorry carrying 15,000 litres of light petrol and ignites.
		November 5, 1967 – Hither Green rail crash, England: 49 people are killed and 78 people injured as an express train from Hastings to Charing Cross derails at Hither Green, due to a broken rail at a rail joint.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_rail_accidents (4958 words)

	Feature: The Cullen Inquiry Reports
		At the inquiry into the disaster - in which 31 people died and hundreds were injured - Chris Goodall described the moment when the high-speed train he was on collided with the Thames Trains turbo service at Ladbroke Grove just before 8am on 5 October last year.
		A woman on the Thames Turbo train involved in the Paddington rail crash spent almost five hours trapped in an air pocket lying beneath a dead man before she was rescued, the inquiry into the disaster heard today.
		Pamela Warren, whose horrific burns from the Paddington rail crash stunned the country when she was pictured in her medical face mask at the public inquiry, told today of the agonising moments which so dramatically altered her life.
	danger-ahead.railfan.net /features/paddington/inquiry_reports_01.html (2158 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Ladbroke Grove train company pleads guilty
		Thames Trains, the company at the centre of the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster, could face an unlimited fine after pleading guilty yesterday to two breaches of safety law in the crash which left 31 people dead and hundreds injured.
		The Ladbroke Grove crash happened when the driver of a Thames Train, Michael Hodder, went through a red light outside London Paddington and had a head-on collision at 130mph with a Great Western inter-city train.
		An official report into the Ladbroke Grove crash by Lord Cullen said Thames Trains' safety culture in relation to training was "slack and less than adequate".
	www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,3604,1104189,00.html (485 words)

	Feature: The Cullen Inquiry
		The Public Inquiry into the accident at Ladbroke Grove opened on the 10th May. Already the press is reporting selective details and statements which produce a shadow play of facts and circumstances and lead the public into believing the causes are obvious and simple.
		A safety scheme that might have prevented the Paddington disaster is being considered by Railtrack five years after it rejected the proposal, the public inquiry into the crash was told yesterday.
		A railway signaller on duty at the time of the Paddington rail crash wept as he told the inquiry into the disaster how he delayed reacting by up to 25 seconds after seeing a train go through a red signal.
	danger-ahead.railfan.net /features/paddington/inquiry_reports.html (1433 words)

	Rail tragedy: safety's been contracted out\|21Feb04\|Socialist Worker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Rail workers told Socialist Worker they have been warning for months about the continued use of subcontractors and unsafe working practices.
		That is music to the ears of the rail companies, which have been lobbying hard to reduce safety standards and make the independent rail inspectorate even closer to the bosses.
		It is bringing the nightmare of rail privatisation and the fiasco of outfits such as the Child Support Agency into every area of the public sector.
	www.socialistworker.co.uk /article.php4?article_id=670 (1391 words)

	New comms network to reduce train delays (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Network Rail is spending €130m (£88.4m) on telecoms to replace its radio systems and implement recommendations made by the Cullen inquiry into the 1999 Ladbroke Grove rail disaster.
		The rail operator is replacing its decades-old analogue network with a digital communication system called GSM-R to provide a national system of secure driver-to-signaller communication for the first time.
		Rail passengers should also see a reduction in track delay minutes," said Madelene Klaasen-Bos, communications manager for the telecoms programme at Network Rail.
	www.vnunet.com /articles/print/2121775 (401 words)

	Printer Friendly Format - News Shopper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		RAIL passengers face misery after union members voted to strike after a dispute over the safety role of train guards.
		Executive members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) Union met yesterday to decide on the exact dates for strikes which could start as early as March 18.
		RMT members say train companies are breaking an agreement made in 2001 to restore guards' safety role after the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster in 1999.
	www.newsshopper.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=278327 (194 words)

	Thames Trains
		At privatisation in September 1996 a franchise to operate its trains until 31 March 2004 was granted to the Go-Ahead group.
		The Strategic Rail Authority have indicated that a two-year franchise from 1 April 2004 will be granted to First Group, who also have the First Great Western franchise which runs long-distance services from Paddington station.
		Thames Trains operated the train which was the proximate cause of the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster in 1999.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/t/th/thames_trains.html (147 words)

	Rail inquiry opens with admission over crashes
		Bereaved relatives and survivors of the Southall rail crash were today attending a memorial service on the third anniversary of the disaster in which Swindon College principal Clive Brain, 57, was killed.
		A shortened session of the Westminster-based joint inquiry into the Southall crash, and last year's Ladbroke Grove rail disaster in which 31 people were killed, was scheduled for today so that interested parties could attend both.
		Referring to research into crashes in the UK since 1967 Mr Burnett disclosed that the frequency of SPAD-related crashes in the form that sparked disaster at Ladbroke Grove and Southall are increasing annually.
	archive.thisiswiltshire.co.uk /2000/9/19/235353.html (284 words)

	Ladbroke Grove rail collision: sentencing of Thames Trains -...
		Ladbroke Grove rail collision: sentencing of Thames Trains - Statement by the Health and Safety Executive
		The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation into the collision at Ladbroke Grove was led by Steve Walker, Assistant Chief Inspector of Railways.
		This was a major disaster that led to a public inquiry, held by Lord Cullen, into safety on the nation's railways.
	www.hse.gov.uk /press/2004/e04045.htm (788 words)

	Britain: Damning report on 1999 Paddington rail crash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		It was at this time, in the run-up to rail privatisation, that the Conservative government changed the rules to allow continued use of the track before approval, “in order to avoid interruption to the operation of existing transport services”.
		Before the Ladbroke Grove crash there would be 67 SPADs in the Paddington area, with eight involving SN109, making it the 15th riskiest signal in Britain.
		Gerald Corbett, Railtrack CEO at the time of the Paddington disaster, told the Inquiry that when he took up his post in 1997, he had been struck by the “seemingly endemic culture of complacency and inaction in the Zone”.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2001/jun2001/pad-j25.shtml (1960 words)

	News - Yorkshire Post Today: News, Sport, Jobs, Property, Cars, Entertainments & More (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Network Rail was found guilty of offences under the Health and Safety at Work Act yesterday following a seven-month trial in which the prosecution claimed the derailment was "a disaster waiting to happen".
		The prosecution claimed there was a catalogue of safety lapses including a faulty rail at the crash site identified 21 months before which was left unrepaired, in spite of a replacement being left alongside it for six months.
		Government-backed Network Rail, responsible for track and signals, is expected to be given a fine of several million pounds next month â“ which passengers and taxpayers face having to meet because they ultimately pay its bills.
	www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk /ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=55&ArticleID=1137239 (842 words)

	Shropshirestar.com - Microwave masts shock for railways (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Dozens of giant microwave masts, each as tall as a 12-storey block of flats, are to be installed along every railway line in Shropshire over the next five years - with no need for planning permission, it was revealed today.
		Network Rail insists the masts are essential for boosting safety following the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster in London, which claimed 31 lives in 1999.
		Network Rail wants to erect 2,000 masts across the whole of the UK for its new GSM-R system enabling train drivers to speak to signallers.
	www.shropshirestar.com /cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=5&num=21094&printer=1 (240 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| 'Corporate killing' law urged
		The MP who represented several victims of the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster has called for a new offence of corporate killing.
		Thirty-one people lost their lives when a Thames Trains commuter service collided with a Great Western express at Ladbroke Grove near London's Paddington station on 5 October 1999.
		Corporate manslaughter charges are being considered against Railtrack and Thames Trains in the light of the scathing report into the disaster by Lord Cullen.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/1398179.stm (399 words)

	Workers Revolutionary Party - RAIL PASSENGERS RUNNING SAME RISK say Ladbroke Grove survivors — six years on
		Paddington Survivors Group spokeswoman Pam Warren said at the beginning of the week: ‘The purpose of the rail safety week is to bring back into the public arena the idea that a year on from what happened at Ladbroke Grove, nothing has changed.
		RMT rail union issued a statement on Tuesday also stressing ‘lessons have still not been learned from Ladbroke Grove disaster’.
		It read: ‘Six years after 31 lives were lost in the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster, Britain’s biggest rail union says that key rail-safety lessons are still being ignored — and that safety and profit do not mix.
	www.wrp.org.uk /news/429 (997 words)

	Printer Friendly Format - This Is Hertfordshire
		COMMUTERS face more rail misery after union members voted for strike action in a dispute over the safety role of train guards.
		Executive members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) Union met yesterday to decide on a date for industrial action, which could start as early as March 18.
		RMT members say companies are breaking an agreement made in 2001 to restore guards' safety role after the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster in 1999.
	www.thisishertfordshire.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=278435 (217 words)

	Transport News: July 07 2001
		Rail company 'brutal' over Ladbroke Grove - From BBC -
		Survivors of the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster have accused a train company of "brutality" for charging passengers for their journey - after the crash.
		Rail company Silverlink has admitted it is "very concerned" about carrying the most unsatisfied customers in the country.
	www.infotransport.co.uk /news/pastnews/2001-07-07 (161 words)

	The New Worker
		ATP was recommended back in 1988 after the Clapham rail disaster, in which 35 people died, and before the privatisation of the railways.
		After the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster the then Transport Secretary John Prescott promised ATP would be fitted.
		Sir Alastair Morton, who chairs the Strategic Rail Authority, has called on the Government to pay up to £10 billion more into the rail network in addition to the £29 billion already promised as the public share of the costs of the overall 1O-year improvement plan.
	www.newworker.org /nw31801.htm (3363 words)

	About Family Assistance Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Her research has clearly shown the importance of employee response from the organization believed to be responsible or primarily involved in the disaster.
		Duncan was one of the co-ordinators of Family Liaison in the aftermath of the Ladbroke Grove Rail Disaster in London in October 1999 where 31 people died.
		She has served on over 25 national disasters, numerous local disasters, and is an Achieve Global Leadership instructor.
	www.fafonline.org /about_the_foundation.shtml (1488 words)

	Stowarzyszenie TechnikÃ³w Polskich w Wielkiej Brytanii
		One of the causes dearest to the UK population's heart at the moment is the delay in the introduction of automatic train protection (ATP) on the network.
		Since Ladbroke Grove, the political will has changed and the original cost benefit analysis conclusions have been overturned.
		The UK is also now using a more sophisticated cost benefit analysis where the value of preventing a fatality (VPF) is currently L1.24 million per equivalent fatality for single fatalities but L3.46 for multiple fatalities (Ref. 4) or where the risk are close to intolerable.
	www.stpuk.org /publikacje/menu02-03-02-03.htm (897 words)

	Health & Safety: No prosecution over Ladbroke Grove rail crash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The UK's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) will not charge anyone in relation to the Ladbroke Grove rail crash in October 1999.
		Chris Newell, CPS principal legal adviser, said he knew the decision would be a bitter disappointment to those affected by the collision, but there was insufficient evidence to proceed on charges of either manslaughter or endangering the safety of passengers.
		The Transport and General Workers Union (TandG) said the failure to prosecute rail executives over the disaster reinforced the need for a new corporate manslaughter bill.
	www.manifest.co.uk /manifest_i/2006/0601Jan/060109healthsafetyLadbroke.htm (156 words)

	How far will new law go? \|24May03\|Socialist Worker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		But the government is only responding now after pressure from families of those killed in such tragedies as the 1999 Ladbroke Grove rail crash.
		BRITISH TRANSPORT Police have reopened their investigation into the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster in which 31 people died.
		Survivors of Ladbroke Grove and other disasters say they do not want junior employees or inspectors scapegoated, but want top management held responsible.
	www.socialistworker.co.uk /article.php4?article_id=3733 (510 words)

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