Re: English Railway Accident

["Daniel Bowen" <dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au>]

"David Bennetts" <davibenn@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> A real shame - there has been a crisis of confidence in Britain's railways
> over the past couple of years - the accident near Paddington early 1999.
> then last year everything was slowed down after Railtrack imposed severe
> restrictions throughout the network after the Hatfield crash and there was
> turmoil everywhere as timetables fell to pieces and journey times were
> extended, resulting in many passengers abandoning trains.   Just recently
> things were improving for the better, most temporary speed restrictions
had
> been lifted and ridership was improving.

I'm told that only last week the speed restriction was lifted on this
section of line, and a GNER spokesman commented that it may have been quite
a different outcome if they had been travelling at the lower speed of last
week.


Daniel
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