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	Death toll could be as high as 100 in London rail crash
		In August 1990, a driver died and 35 passengers were injured in a two-train crash at Safford station.
		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_prn.shtml

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		The rail depicted, allowing for a degree of artistic licence to use its cross-section for a sketch-map of the proposed routes, is clearly flat-bottomed.
		The Pendleton Station area has frequent bus services, Salford Crescent station is half a mile away and anyway the walk would be beneficial to the health of those who sit down all day at work and who sit on a bus or train when travelling thereto and -from as well.
		The return journey by coach to the station reveals that, with it being positioned to the east of the dual carriageway, it is necessary to head by road back to the main line itself, pass over it, negotiate a roundabout and recross the line in order to return south to Heathrow Junction.
	www.staff.ncl.ac.uk /m.h.ellison/bls/bln98gb.txt

	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.
		LONDON, England (CNN) -- The train crash at Potters Bar, north of London, is the latest tragedy to hit Britain's railways, despite considerable investment in track improvements over the last 18 months.
		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.
	edition.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/europe/UK/10/17/railcrash.history

	BBC ON THIS DAY 4 1989: Six die in Purley rail crash
		The Hidden inquiry into the Clapham rail crash published in September 1989 recommended ATP should be installed across the rail network, but the cost proved prohibitive.
		The crash prompted a red alert at the Mayday hospital in Croydon.
		Some local residents were working in their gardens when the train came crashing down the bank.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/4/newsid_2515000/2515219.stm

	ERA Online Swindler Transit News
		As the full implications of the cause of the Hatfield crash sank in — cracking in the rails, which led to a massive programme of rail replacement across Britain — the senior business figures at Railtrack were publicly pilloried for the failure to maintain the tracks.
		As it emerged that the loose nuts were the cause of the accident, the inquiry into the train crash May 12 began to focus on the possibility that the rail networks were poorly maintained.
		Rail has around 5% of the transport market by mileage, so if it had the same death rate as motoring, there would have been 1,800 deaths, rather than 67, in the past 10 years.
	www.electricrailroaders.org /swindler/2002_0511-0517.php

	Travel Guide - Online Reservation - Warsaw Accommodation
		March 4, 1989 â“ Purley Station rail crash, London, England : As one train crosses over from one track to another, a second train runs a red signal and collides with the first train; the accident leaves six people dead and 94 injured.
		May 22, 1915 â“ In the Quintinshill rail crash, four trains including a troop train collide causing 227 fatalities and injuring 246 people at Quintinshill, Gretna Green, Scotland ; the accident is found to be the result of non-standard operating practices during a shift change at a busy junction.
		October 8, 1952 â“ Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash, United Kingdom : Three trains are involved in a crash that kills 112 and injures 340.
	www.warsaw-hotel.info /poland-guide/Derailment

	Guardian Unlimited Special reports Britain's rail disaster history
		January 31 1995: One person was killed and another was seriously injured when a passenger train crashed into the rear of another train which had been derailed by a landslide in a remote valley in northern England.
		The crash, the worst train accident in Britain in recent times, was blamed on slack safety measures.
		December 12 1988: Thirty-five people were killed in a crash involving three trains at Clapham Junction in London.
	www.guardian.co.uk /traincrash/Story/0,2763,201550,00.html

	Croydon Borough Police News
		On 2 nd November 1952 there was the infamous fatal shooting of Pc Miles involving Derek Bentley and on the 4 th Match 1989 there was the tragic Purley rail crash where sadly 6 lives were lost.
		The present station was built in 1979 and replaced the previous station.
		South Norwood Police station was originally in the High Street until the new station was built in Oliver Grove in 1988.
	www.met.police.uk /croydon/newsitems/sep04_news.htm

	BBC NEWS UK Chronology of rail crashes
		After that, four people died and 22 were injured in a head-on crash at Newton station near Glasgow.
		A broken rail was found to be the "substantial" cause of the accident.
		But the £750m price tag was considered too high by British Rail and the government, immediately prior to privatisation in 1993, and implementation of the safety system was ruled out.
	212.58.226.30 /1/hi/uk/465475.stm

	BBC - Science & Nature - Hot Topics - Transport - Railways
		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.
		Potters Bar was the latest in a catalogue of disasters, which mars the record of rail transport in Britain.
		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.
	www.bbc.co.uk /science/hottopics/transport/railways.shtml

	Printer Friendly Format - Waltham Forest Guardian
		Five people died and 88 people were injured when six carriages crashed down the embankment to the north of Purley station, ending up in the back gardens of homes in Glenn Avenue.
		The train driver jailed after the Purley rail disaster nine years ago has the backing of rail union Aslef in the fight to clear his name.
		Robert Morgan pleaded guilty to manslaughter after the crash which killed five people on March 4, 1989 and was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment.
	www.walthamforestguardian.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=61898

	HSE Railways Annual Report
		On 1 November, Alan Osborne took up post as HSE’s Director of Railway Safety, a new post created in response to a recommendation made by Lord Cullen in his report on the Ladbroke Grove rail crash.
		On 5 July a station employee died following a train fire at Purley station.
		On 14 March, Jarvis Facilities Limited, trading as Jarvis Rail, was fined a total of £25 000 by Stratford-upon-Avon magistrates after pleading guilty to two charges of improper use of a flatbed trailer to propel workers and materials on 14 June 2002, near Kenilworth South Junction Loop points.
	www.hse.gov.uk /railways/annualreport0203/yearinbrief.htm

	simoncox.com train times: Journey to work Archives
		I arrived at the station in time for the 08:30 this morning and was actually the first into the coach, which was over crowded as usual.
		Arrived at the station nice and early this morning to discover that my place on the platform was already taken by some woman.
		It seems that the train may not have been in the station properly or that not all the platform was available.
	www.simoncox.com /trainblog/journey_to_work/index.php

	Using Reality In RPGs
		A member of royalty is killed in a car crash in Paris, escaping paparazzi.
		A train crash in Southall kills and injures passengers.
		Repeated winter storms, the worst for a decade, destroy power lines in Scotland and Wales, leaving small communities isolated and freezing.
	www.tragsnart.co.uk /rpghub/stagefight/reality.htm

	Printer Friendly Format - This Is Hertfordshire
		October 1994: Five killed and 12 injured in a head-on crash near Cowden in Kent.
		February 28, 2001: A GNER York to London King's Cross today crashed at Great Heck, North Yorkshire, on the East Coast main line.
		February 1975: Train hits the end of a cul-de-sac tunnel at Moorgate Underground station in central London killing 43 people.
	www.thisishertfordshire.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=304297

	1989. Everything you wanted to know about 1989 but had no clue how to find it.. Learn about 1989 here!
		Purley rail crash - 5 dead, 94 injured
		The show began a year earlier on a small UHF station in Minneapolis, MN.
		February 16 - Pan Am flight 103 : Investigators announce that the cause of the crash was a bomb hidden inside a radio-cassette player
	encyclopedia.lockergnome.com /s/b/1989

	Free Congress Foundation Online ---
		The rail station is in an underpass below the transitway reached by ramps from the bus.
		The corridor has excellent downtown stations and connections to rapid transit and commuter rail in both cities.
		To reach the O-Train, I rode the transitway #95 bus from the"Train" Station thru the CBD to the "Bayview" station west of downtown.
	www.trolleycar.org /observations/geissenheimer/geissenheimer020516.htm

	Remembering Victims Of The Purley Rail Disaster (from This Is Local London)
		Survivors and bereaved families gathered at Purley rail station on Thursday for a short service of remembrance in honour of those who were lost in the crash.
		"There are many people who are still grieving and there is a feeling that the Purley rail crash has been overshadowed by the Clapham crash.
		Remembering Victims Of The Purley Rail Disaster (from This Is Local London)
	www.thisislocallondon.co.uk /archive/display.var.90016.0.remembering_victims_of_the_purley_rail_disaster.php

	Day Purley at Local.co.uk
		Six people die and 80 are injured, some of them seriously, in a train crash at Purley in Surrey.
		Ken Body tells On This Day why he still finds it difficult to cope with the aftermath of the Purley train crash.
		Purley Chase is becoming one of the most popular venues for your wedding and is the ideal setting for your special day.
	www.local.co.uk /Purley/Day

	History 3
		Rail crash at Stoats Nest station killing seven people
		The front part stayed on the rails, and the rear half de-railed and crashed into the platform
		The Purley and Coulsdon Troop of Boy Scouts were nearby and rendered service to the injured
	www.oldcoulsdon.co.uk /history_3.htm

	Britain's worst train crashes since 1988. 11/5/2002. ABC News Online
		March 4: Five people were killed and more than 90 were injured when two trains collided outside Purley station in south London.
		October 17: Four people die and 35 are injured when a high-speed train derails near Hatfield, north of London, as a result of a broken rail.
		February 28: A vehicle slid down an embankment into the path of a passenger express train which derailed and collided with a freight train near the northern English town of Selby.
	www.abc.net.au /news/indepth/featureitems/s553463.htm

	BBC ON THIS DAY 4 1989: Rail crash trauma
		Ken Boddy has never fully recovered from the Purley train crash.
		I went into a little café opposite the station entrance and ordered a coffee and sat down and could not stop myself from crying.
		I was not physically hurt and with a number of others was escorted down the track back to Purley.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/witness/march/4/newsid_4309000/4309223.stm

	Disasters
		It was a lack of restorative work on the Campanile that ultimately brought it crashing down to the ground after 500 years.
		46 people are killed when a BMI Boeing 737 crashes shortly after take off from East Midland airport
		Air India 707 crashes in to Mont Blanc
	www.yonks.co.uk /disasters.asp?type=11

	Guardian Unlimited Special reports Rail accidents chronology
		What happened: A Newcastle-London express crashed into a Land Rover on the tracks, derailed, and was hit by an oncoming freight train
		The worst train crashes in Britain in recent history
		What happened: Two trains collided outside London Bridge station.
	www.guardian.co.uk /selby/story/0,7369,444233,00.html

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	London Borough of Croydon List of Part B Installations/Processes
		Harwoods Ltd Unit A Coulsdon North Industrial Estate Station Road
		BP Oil UK Ltd Green Lane Service Station,
	www.croydon.gov.uk /environment/docsrep/polldocs/Partb/PartB?a=5441

	Parish News - The Southwark Bridge - April 1999
		The service included a minute's silence following the laying of flowers and wreaths, at 1.39pm, exactly ten years later to the minute that the crash occurred at Purley Railway Station The minute's silence was movingly ended by an express station thundering through the station, just feet from the gathered crowd.
		The bereaved, injured and others involved in the Purley rail crash, ten years ago, were invited by the Rev. Charles Trefusis to join in a simple service and act of remembrance at Christ Church,Purley, on Thursday 4 March.
		Relatives and those involved travelled from the south coast (from where many of the injured had travelled), and one woman who was injured by the accident even travelled from New York to attend the service.
	www.dswark.org /bridge/9904/page08.htm

	List of rail accidents - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		March 4 1989 – Purley Station rail crash, London, England: As one train crosses over from one track to another, a second train runs a red signal and collides with the first train; the accident leaves six people dead and 94 injured.
		May 22 1915 – In the Quintinshill rail crash, four trains including a troop train collide causing 227 fatalities and injuring 246 people at Quintinshill, Gretna Green, Scotland; the accident is found to be the result of non-standard operating practices during a shift change at a busy junction.
		October 17 2000 – Hatfield rail crash, United Kingdom: Part of a rail shatters as a passenger train passes over it; four people are killed, 70 are injured.
	www.peekskill.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/List_of_rail_accidents

	Articles - List of rail accidents
		March 4, 1989 â“ Purley Station rail crash, London, England : As one train crosses over from one track to another, a second train runs a red signal and collides with the first train; the accident leaves six people dead and 94 injured.
		May 22, 1915 â“ In the Quintinshill rail crash, four trains including a troop train collide causing 227 fatalities and injuring 246 people at Quintinshill, Gretna Green, Scotland ; the accident is found to be the result of non-standard operating practices during a shift change at a busy junction.
		October 8, 1952 â“ Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash, United Kingdom : Three trains are involved in a crash that kills 112 and injures 340.
	www.cateringa.com /articles/List_of_rail_accidents

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