A Brief History of_ The Ladbroke Grove Train Disaster 1999

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A Brief History of_ The Ladbroke Grove Train Disaster 1999 (Documentary)
‘A body drifted past the window’: surviving the Ladbroke Grove train crash
On 5 October 1999, two trains collided at speed in west London, killing both drivers and 29 passengers. Barrister Greg Treverton-Jones, who survived the crash and worked on the harrowing inquiry, pieced together what went wrong... The Ladbroke Grove rail crash (also known as the Paddington rail crash) was a rail accident which occurred on 5 October 1999 at Ladbroke Grove in London, England, when two passenger trains collided almost head-on after one of them had passed a signal at danger. With 31 people killed and 417 injured, it was one of the worst rail accidents in 20th-century British history.

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