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Great Western Trains Railtrack Health & Safety Executive Metropolitan Police
Track Layout at Ladbroke Grove Opens in new window UK rail companies must do more to stop SPADs 03 Sep 99 UK Railways to get New Safety System 10 Aug 99 Missed danger signal said to have caused Virgin Trains crash 24 Jun 99
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Paddington Rail Tragedy - Railtrack's problem signals: Saturday, October 09, 1999Following Tuesday's (5 October) collision between two rush hour trains in which more than 40 people lost their lives Railtrack has announced that a total of 22 signals, throughout the system have a poor record of SPADs (Signal Passed At Danger). Signal sn109 which was passed by the Thames Trains driver at Ladbroke Grove had had 8 such occurrences. However, ten other signals have an even worse record. The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) has ordered Railtrack, the company responsible for the rail infrastructue to stop using the signal until sighting proplems are corrected.
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This file last updated: Saturday, 09-Oct-1999 17:16:38 EDT