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People literally died before it became Network Rail due to badly maintained infrastructure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railtrack https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
by badcppdev 3y ago
People literally died before it became Network Rail due to badly maintained infrastructure
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railtrack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railtrack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Rail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Rail
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southall_rail_crash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southall_rail_crash
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladbroke_Grove_rail_crash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladbroke_Grove_rail_crash
Edit: To be 100% clear the badly maintained infrastructure was the responsibility of a for profit private company at the point where people died.
- veltas 3y agoSouthall: > The passenger train operating company had failed to inform Railtrack and the signaller that the automatic warning system (AWS), which warns drivers of adverse signals, had been turned off in the cab of the HST. But Ladbroke Grove was Railtrack's fault entirely (within the first few years of its creation). Meanwhile it's been 20 years since National Rail was created, when do we get to blame current governments and National Rail for bad infrastructure?