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The Rule Book was changed to avoid this situation. Now if a train is to be signalled into an occupied section and that train is not booked to call at that location, the driver must be first advised. Also before a train can be signalled behind another, the signal ahead of the stationary train must be
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The driver of the empty train, who was the only fatality, was considered not to have kept a good lookout. This was possibly compounded by excessive working hours and by the
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at danger until the second train has come to a stand, to avoid potential 'over-reading' of the signal by the second driver.
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indicates railway accidents and incidents resulting in at least 20 fatalities
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ran into the rear of the 10:18 pm express passenger train from
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indicates the deadliest railway accident in British history
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Official accident report, courtesy of The Railways Archive
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Index

Stafford rail crash (1990)
1996 Stafford rail crash
Stafford
Stoke-on-Trent
Birmingham
Soho TMD
Manchester Piccadilly
Penzance
Stafford station
alcohol
List of British rail accidents
ISSN
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"Railway accident at Stafford"
Official accident report, courtesy of The Railways Archive
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Railway accidents and incidents
1990 (1990)
Sukkur rail disaster, Pakistan
Rüsselsheim train disaster, West Germany
Philadelphia subway accident, United States
Cowan rail accident, Australia
Stafford rail crash, United Kingdom
Ursus rail crash, Poland
Back Bay train collision, United States
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