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5 unusual facts about Ladbroke Grove rail crash


Adam and Eve and Pinch Me

After he supposedly dies in the Paddington train crash, they realise his deception and find themselves in serious debt.

Charlotte Hawkins

She was one of the first journalists at the fatal Paddington rail crash and provided live reports from the scene.

Ladbroke Grove rail crash

On 19 September 2011, National Geographic Channel aired an episode of Seconds From Disaster exploring the chain of events that had led up to the collision.

On 31 October 2006, Network Rail (the successor body to Railtrack, formed in the wake of a subsequent train crash at Hatfield) pleaded guilty to charges under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 in relation to the accident.

The recommendations of the Cullen inquiry led to the creation in 2003 of the Rail Safety and Standards Board and in 2005 of the Rail Accident Investigation Branch in addition to the Railway Inspectorate.


London Fire Brigade

:Also known as the Ladbroke Grove rail crash, two trains collided a short distance outside of Paddington station on 5 October 1999, killing 31 people.

Rail Accident Investigation Branch

The Cullen Report into the Ladbroke Grove rail crash in 1999 recommended the establishment of an accident investigation body within the Department for Transport along the same lines as the Marine Accident Investigation Branch and the Air Accident Investigation Branch, bodies that have distinguished themselves by their professionalism and objectivity.

The Permanent Way

Incidents covered in the play include the passing of the Railways Act 1993 setting out the structure of rail privatization and the survival and bereavement stories resulting from the rail crashes of Southall, Ladbroke Grove, Hatfield, and Potters Bar.


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