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3 unusual facts about The Permanent Way


The Permanent Way

In 1991 the British government decided to privatise the country's railways.

The play first opened in York in November 2003, directed by Max Stafford-Clark.

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.


Nina Bawden

Her testimony about the crash, and the management and maintenance mistakes that caused it, became a major part of David Hare's play The Permanent Way.


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Don Cockell

By 1975 he was working as a craftsman blacksmith in the permanent way machine shops at the British Rail Lillie Bridge Depot in London.