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Zoiks Scoob! I was on that line on Saturday! <8-[....]
In future I want to get the bus into London, since this would seem to imply that since the LAST accident on these lines safety hasn't been improved one iota....
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The First One
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The death toll is now 26, with more bodies maybe stuck in a burned-out carriage and left overnight. Heads are gonna roll for this one. . .
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Death toll is now 28, with 42 people missing. Apparently you could hear mobile phones ringing in the wreckage, long into the night. . .
A bit of history is needed here to explain the significance of all this. Back at the end of 1988 a train crash in Clapham killed 35 people. Almost ten yeasr to the day ago, the Inquiry into the disaster came up with several recommendations. Then the Conservative government of the time privatised the railways and such safety measures were judged too expensive. Now, twice as many people have died in the UMPTEENTH instance of a train going through a red light.
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That same stretch of railway is where ANOTHER accident occured two years ago. The same stretch. 7 people dead.
If it is approaching the terminal, SLOW DOWN. Toronto's Union Station has the same track layout as the Paddington Station in London (Someone told me it was the same). The big difference is that the trains go SLOWER when they approach the terminal.
But that's what you get when you have a government who only cares about what's in their pockets rather than what needs to be done to help the people. That's Right-Wing Activism for you. Blame Conservative politics for the accident.
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the phrase "heads are gonna roll" is really a bit unfortunate for more than one reason :/ I mean, it's not just the people responsible who must resign, the whole railway track should be improved. Seeing heads roll is not a priority issue of course.
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Bit of a slip there, I admit. But the fact is, 120 people are now feared dead and for many the only way of identification will be missing persons lists or unclaimed cars in Reading station car park! And all the time the people responsible, the Conservative Party, have been living the high life at their annual conference in Blackpool, daring to claim they speak for the British people.
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Woo, three people concerned about me. That's nice. I'll send you all a card.
Apparently, in the past 2 years, 7 trains have gone through that signal while it was red. As Lee said, an accident waiting to happen.
Apparently the temperature in one car went up to 1000 degrees. The people would have been fried instantly. That's why it's taking so long to determine who died.
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