31 October 2006

Network Rail Admits Ladbroke Grove Guilt

The first day that I spent in England was the day of Ladbroke Grove. I was coming in from Dover to Charing Cross, and the tannoys kept announcing that there had been a major incident just outside of Paddington. It wasn't just a head-on collision between commuter trains, or a head-on collision that led to a fire gutting entire carriages, but it was due to a Signal Passed At Danger, something so common that they had an acronymn for it, SPAD.

Network Rail has finally admitted that it was guilty of "health and safety violations" on the day, and it faces a stiff fine. Well, whoop-dee-doo. A fine won't bring 31 people back to life.

It's incomprehensible that, in the wake of Ladbroke Grove, Hatfield and Potters Bar, Labour has not brought in stronger corporate manslaughter charges, or rail renationalisation.

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