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	GlobalGuide.Org -0S -0W
		Southall is a London suburb in the London Borough of Ealing.
		Southall was also the home of one of the earliest British film studios, Southall Film Studios which played a historic role in film-making from its creation in 1924 to its closure in 1959.
		Southall is also the location of the Glassy Junction, which serves several Indian draught beers and was the first pub in the UK to accept payment in Indian rupees.
	www.globalguide.org /index.html?title=Southall (814 words)

	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 on October 5, 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 signal (technically known as a Signal Passed At Danger or SPAD), 563 metres before the impact point.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ladbroke_Grove_rail_crash (820 words)

	Southall rail crash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Southall rail crash occurred on September 19, 1997, on the Great Western Railway line at Southall, west London.
		The crash occurred after the 1032 Great Western Intercity passenger train from Swansea to London Paddington, operating with a defective Automatic Warning System indicator, went through a red signal (SPAD) and collided with a freight train leaving its depot shortly before 13:20 local time.
		Following this accident and the Ladbroke Grove rail crash, the train operating company Great Western now requires all its HST trains to have ATP switched on (if the equipment is faulty the train is taken out of service).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Southall_rail_crash (469 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, Disasters in London, Railway accidents in the United Kingdom, 1999 in England, Rail accidents in London, Public inquiries, Transport in Kensington andamp; Chelsea, 1990s in rail transport and 20th century in London.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Ladbroke_Grove_rail_crash (973 words)

	Southall rail crash at AllExperts
		The Southall rail crash occurred on September 19, 1997, on the Great Western Railway line at Southall, west London.
		The crash occurred after the 1032 Great Western Intercity passenger train from Swansea to London Paddington, operating with a defective Automatic Warning System indicator, went through a red signal (SPAD) and collided with a freight train leaving its depot shortly before 13:20 local time.
		Following this accident and the Ladbroke Grove rail crash, the train operating company Great Western now requires all its HST trains to have ATP switched on (if the equipment is faulty the train is taken out of service).
	en.allexperts.com /e/s/so/southall_rail_crash.htm (498 words)

	List Of Rail Accidents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The crash also destroys a support column of a railway bridge, causing parts of the bridge to collapse onto the wreck.
		Operator Network Rail is found guilty in one of the longest rail-related trials in UK legal history, but manslaughter charges against company managers are not sustained.
		This main rail line was closed for two weeks while removing the chlorine and the rail cars.
	www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/List_of_rail_accidents (7741 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Is rail travel becoming less safe?
		The issue of rail safety was going to have been firmly on the agenda even before the rail crash near Paddington in London.
		Probably the biggest threat to the safety of rail passengers, according to statistics collated by the BBC's analysis and research unit, is Signal Passed at Danger (Spad) incidents, one of which resulted in the Southall disaster.
		Serious accidents on the rail network remain rare, and in general terms, before today's incident, the annual rate of deaths on the railways has dropped back to the level of the early 1980s, before a spate of accidents which included the 1988 Clapham rail disaster in which 35 people died.
	news2.thdo.bbc.co.uk /1/low/uk/465594.stm (707 words)

	70 confirmed dead and 100 still unaccounted for in London train crash
		Rail inspectors believe that the Thames train reached this junction at almost the same split-second as the express.
		Initial attempts to attribute the crash to "driver error" fell flat once it emerged that Signal 109, the one that the Thames train is said to have passed at danger, had already been identified by Railtrack as posing a clear safety risk more than 18 months ago.
		The inquiry into Southall, when a Great Western train from Swansea to Paddington crashed into an empty freight train on September 19, 1997, officially opened in February 1998, but was almost immediately adjourned.
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/oct1999/rail-o08_prn.shtml (1250 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Archive Search
		In the earlier Southall rail crash, the £1.5m fine imposed on First Great Western was peanuts compared to their profits.
		There Mr Calvert-Smith, advised by the same QC who advised on Southall, simply decided not to prosecute at all because, he said, there was no case against the manager identified as responsible for the safety system which led to Simon's death.
		But bereaved Southall relatives were told it was impossible to prosecute a director of Great Western Trains responsible for safety because he personally had not authorised that particular train setting off with a safety system not working.
	www.guardianunlimited.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,4018148,00.html (820 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Ladbroke Grove rail crash
		This was the second major accident on the Great Western Main Line in less than eighteen months, the other being the Southall rail crash of May 1998, just a few miles further west, and this severely damaged public confidence in the safety of Britain's privatised railway system.
		The Ladbroke Grove rail crash was a British rail accident on October 5, 1999 in which thirty-one people died.
		Such an incident was determined as the main cause of the Ladbroke Grove rail crash at a time when TPWS was not in operation.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ladbroke-Grove-rail-crash (2188 words)

	Southall rail crash: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Southall is a london suburb in the london borough of ealing....
		Inter-city rail services are train services which cover larger distances than commuter trains....
		Paddington station or london paddington is the name of a major national rail and london underground station complex in the paddington area of london....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/so/southall_rail_crash.htm (682 words)

	Crash survivors demand safer trains
		Carole Bell, a victim of the Southall rail crash, said financial loss should never be put before the loss of peoples' lives.
		Robin Kellow, father of a victim of the Paddington crash, said it was up to the public to stop the government from adopting TPWS.
		Marion Carmichael, whose daughter Jenny died in the Paddington crash, said the only way to make sure the ATP system was adopted was to make company directors responsible for their actions.
	www.fire.org.uk /BBC_News/news/bbc180900b.htm (527 words)

	Clapham Junction rail crash at AllExperts
		The Clapham Junction rail crash was a serious railway accident involving two collisions between three commuter trains at 0810 on the morning of December 12 1988.
		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.
	en.allexperts.com /e/c/cl/clapham_junction_rail_crash.htm (838 words)

	Britain's Paddington rail crash claims 26 lives
		The crash occurred on the same stretch of line as the Southall rail crash in 1997, which killed seven people and injured 150.
		The inquiry into the Southall crash, which happened when a Great Western train from Swansea to Paddington crashed into an empty freight train on September 19, 1997, officially opened in February 1998, but was almost immediately adjourned.
		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)

	Corpus Christi Caller Times Caller.com - Britain to investigate railway company
		Rail unions expressed disgust when they learned that some of the train cars involved in Tuesday's deadly crash had been salvaged from another crash two years ago.
		Great Western Trains, which operated one of the trains, admitted that four of the coaches in Tuesday's accident had been involved in the 1997 Southall rail crash, in which seven people were killed and 150 injured.
		As the nation tried to come to terms with the scale of the crash - the deadliest since 1975 - the safety of Britain's rail network was called into question.
	www.caller2.com /1999/october/10/today/national/1317.html (499 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Public inquiry
		Typical events for a public inquiry are those that cause multiple deaths, such as public transport crashes or mass murders.
		Ladbroke Grove Rail Inquiry - an investigation into the rail crash outside Paddington in October 1999.
		Joint inquiry into Ladbroke Grove and Southall crashes began September 2000, reported December 2000.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Public-inquiry (1268 words)

	Socialist Appeal - Rail industry in crisis - A fighting programme for Rail Workers in Britain
		The rail bosses are currently attempting to further undermine the role and responsibility of the guard, with a view to eliminating this grade altogether.
		Not just the track, but the operation of all rail services, maintenance and the entire rail network needs to be brought back into public ownership immediately, and in the interests of safety and efficiency the railways should be run democratically by the workforce and passengers.
		When rail was first nationalised, Boards were appointed made up of ex-captains of private enterprise whose sole mandate was to run the industry within the confines of capitalism, and according to the laws of capitalist profitability.
	www.socialist.net /content/view/850/30 (10507 words)

	Southall rail disaster due to privatisation and cost cutting
		The Southall rail crash, which left seven dead and 176 injured, is the tragic result of the blatant disregard of safety by the private rail operators.
		The crash occurred on Friday, September 19, when a packed train from Cardiff to Paddington travelling at 110 mph crashed into the side of an empty freight train shunting at slow speed across a high speed track.
		The rail unions initially made no public defence of the express driver because they are equally culpable in the disaster.
	www.socialequality.org.uk /iw/240/3a240.shtml (1129 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Comment \| Leader: Cold and old
		There was understandable public outrage in 1997 over lax public service safety procedures that led to the Southall rail crash which killed seven people.
		Similar protests were prompted by the Paddington rail crash in 1999 (31 killed) and Hatfield in 2000 (four killed).
		Yet, had it not been for a coroner's court hearing this week on the death of an elderly couple whose gas supply had been cut off from their home, little would have been heard of the threat which this week's cold poses for elderly people.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,9115,1112513,00.html (636 words)

	Rail crash widows visit 'wonderful' memorial - This Is The North East archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A MEMORIAL garden dedicated to victims of the Southall rail crash was opened yesterday on the sixth anniversary of the tragedy.
		A minute's silence was held at 1.15pm, to coincide with the time of the crash, and all trains in the vicinity were requested to slow down as a mark of respect.
		The garden, next to Southall station, is the first memorial dedicated to victims of the crash.
	archive.thisisthenortheast.co.uk /2003/09/20/76267.html (333 words)

	Southall on Find-a-Needle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Southall is a vibrant and exciting place, which offers a rich multicultural...
		Originally Southall was a small hamlet in the larger parish of Norwood, but the parish of Southall came into being in 1864...
		Focus on Southall crash findingsBBC transport correspondent Tim Hirsch examines the main points of the Southall train crash inquiry.
	uk.find-a-needle.com /southall.htm (725 words)

	Automatic Track Warning Systems (ATWS)
		The driver in the Southall rail crash, where seven people died, would normally have had two warnings that he was approaching a red signal, but in that case the AWS was not working.
		The situation in the case of the Paddington crash is not entirely clear, but it is thought that a faulty track could have triggered the wrong noise in the cabin of the driver of the Thames train leading him to believe he had been given a green signal instead of a red one.
		Many of the survivors of the Southall and Paddington disasters are concerned that the government and rail companies are pre-empting the Paddington inquiry and the joint inquiry into train safety by pushing ahead with implementing TPWS.
	www.railwaypeople.com /rail-projects/automatic-track-warning-systems-atws-23.html (1203 words)

	Rail industry in crisis - A fighting programme for Rail Workers in Britain
		The rail bosses are currently attempting to further undermine the role and responsibility of the guard, with a view to eliminating this grade altogether.
		Not just the track, but the operation of all rail services, maintenance and the entire rail network needs to be brought back into public ownership immediately, and in the interests of safety and efficiency the railways should be run democratically by the workforce and passengers.
		When rail was first nationalised, Boards were appointed made up of ex-captains of private enterprise whose sole mandate was to run the industry within the confines of capitalism, and according to the laws of capitalist profitability.
	www.marxist.com /britain-rail-crisis250300.htm (10544 words)

	Rail bosses use law to stop safety strike\|30Oct99\|Socialist Worker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Rail bosses want to change the guards' duties so they are no longer responsible for train safety.
		TPWS would not have prevented the 1997 Southall rail crash because one of the trains was travelling at 125 miles per hour.
		Rail employees are to be allowed to report safety concerns to a "whistleblower's hotline" without fear of losing their jobs.
	www.socialistworker.co.uk /article.php?article_id=1178 (567 words)

	News
		The Clapham rail crash on 12 December 1988 which caused 35 deaths and nearly 500 injuries.
		British Rail were criticised for allowing working practices which were "positively dangerous" and the responsibility in the organisation went much wider and higher than those who were working that day.
		The Southall rail crash on 19 September 1997 which resulted in 7 deaths and 151 injuries.
	www.feta.org.uk /News/Archive/news_involmans.htm (822 words)

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