It was one of the worst rail crashes of the last century killing 31 people.
Twenty five years ago two passenger trains collided at Ladbroke Grove, two miles west of London's Paddington station.
Several years after the crash, Thames Trains was fined £2m after admitting breaches of health and safety legislation. Network Rail, the successor organisation to infrastructure owner Railtrack, was eventually fined £4m in 2007.Alan Macro, from Theale in Berkshire, survived the crash."The railway has become a lot safer since the crash," he said.
This remains in widespread use. A pair of electronic loops in the track, looking like a grid or electric toaster, automatically cause a train to brake if it approaches a danger signal too fast. "Some of those gains have come by technology, some come from a better understanding of risk and some come from a structure that better looks at accidents and learns from them.
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