Wiltshire. In 1996 the collision was one of the events cited by the Law Commission as reason for new law on manslaughter, resulting in the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007. One of those attending today was 71-year-old chartered accountant George Gillon, from London.
Alan Stewart, 28, an accountant from Auckland in New Zealand. The signalling technician who had done the work had not cut back, insulated, nor tied back the loose wire and his work had not been supervised, nor inspected by an independent person as was required. However, approval was given in 1984 after a report of three wrong-side signal failures. Muthulingam Thayaparan, 26, of Tooting, south-west London. He had lived with his girlfriend for 10 years.
Married caretaker Robert Cotton, 41, of Rednock School, Dursley, Gloucestershire, who also worked as a local councillor. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------. Rescue was hampered because the railway was in a cutting, with metal fence at the top and a wall at the bottom of a wooded slope. Hampshire. However he had no control over automatic signals, and was not able to stop the fourth train. The driver of a fourth train, coasting with no traction current, saw the other trains and managed to come to a stop behind the other two and the signal that should have protected them, which was showing a yellow "proceed with caution" aspect instead of a red "danger" aspect. [19], Critical of the health and safety culture within British Rail at the time,[19] Hidden recommended that unused signal wires needed to be cut back and insulated, and that a testing plan be in place, with the inspection and testing being done by an independent person. Due to the sheer scale of this comment community, we are not able to give each post the same level of attention, but we have preserved this area in the interests of open debate. learnt from [the Clapham Junction] accident are fading from the railway industry’s collective memory". [32] A year later, a report into a collision at London Waterloo highlighted similar circumstances, saying that "some of the lessons Linda Ship, 47, and her sister Diana O'Carroll, 44, travelled from Hampshire to remember their father Arthur Creek, 48, who was killed on the train. His family described him as "a real gentleman, a kind and loving family man". British Rail was fined £250,000 for violations of health and safety law in connection with the accident.
Ola Bratlie, a 26-year-old telecommunications engineer. He was travelling to London for a national executive meeting of trade union Unison. Please be respectful when making a comment and adhere to our Community Guidelines.
John Northcott, 24, a graduate working in the IT industry, of Leyton, east London. On 12 December 1988 the 07:18 from Basingstoke to London Waterloo, a crowded 12 car train made up of four-car 4VEP electric multiple units 3033, 3119 and 3005, was approaching Clapham Junction when the driver saw the signal ahead of him change from green ("proceed") to red ("danger"). Railway historian Adrian Vaughan suggests this may not be the best way of handling faulty signals. Matthew Macaulay, 26, an information technician from New Zealand living in Clapham, south London, identified by a tattoo on his back. "Once again, we send our condolences and sympathy to those friends and family who will have particularly difficult memories on this occasion.". A third empty train later ran into the wreckage killing some passengers who had survived the first crash. [31], In 2017, a Rail Accident Investigation Branch report into a serious irregularity at Cardiff Central on 29 December 2016 revealed that some of the lessons from the Clapham Junction accident appeared to have been forgotten.
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