Paddington crash signal 'was partially obscured'.(News)

From: The Birmingham Post (England) | Date: October 30, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

A key signal at the centre of the Paddington rail disaster may have been partly hidden.

A test train trip made eight days after the October 5 crash showed signal 109 was "initially partly obscured by overhead line equipment", said a second interim report from the Health and Safety Executive.

But nothing was observed during this test that provided evidence about what the Thames train driver, Michael Hodder, would actually have seen on the morning of the crash, the ...

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