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A safer railway… so we never have another Ladbroke Grove

Dickon Ross Editor

Welcome ON October 5, it will be the 25th anniversary of the Ladbroke Grove disaster, which claimed 31 lives and injured hundreds more. It led to an inquiry that instigated important changes in safety governance, including new regulatory bodies that are still in existence today. Our feature (pages 34-37) looks at the results of those changes after Ladbroke Grove. They made a real difference, saving lives in the years since. Rail remains one of the safest ways to travel. It is certainly safer than car travel. There are so many deaths on the roads each year that the rail industry might feel with some justification that its accidents are given more publicity than they deserve. But that public concern is inevitable when driving is handed over to someone else -…

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