Letter: Rail privatisation has cost too much

From: The Independent - London | Date: October 17, 1999| Author: Robert Bracegirdle Leicester | Copyright information

AS FAR AS I understand the Ladbroke Grove train accident, the Thames train passed a red light at danger and proceeded on to the "up" line, colliding with the Great Western. If the Great Western train had a green light then presumably the crossover pointwork could not have been set for the Thames train to proceed on its planned route as shown in your diagram (Focus, 10 October), so it must have taken the unidirectional ("up" relief connection) line in the wrong direction before striking the Gr...

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