Increasing concern for rail safety

Title

Increasing concern for rail safety

Genre

News report; Parliamentary debate

TX Date

7 Mar 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:04:06

Description

Des Fahy reports for AM programme on the announcement by Transport Secretary Paul Channon in the Commons of a possible broadening of the Clapham rail disaster inquiry to investigate rail safety in general following 3 serious crashes in 3 months (speech heard). Labour’s John Prescott sets out the casualty statistics of the last 5 years; Scottish Nationalist Jim Sillars calls for a comprehensive review of British Rail safety.

Contributors

John Prescott; Jim Sillars; Paul Channon

Keywords

Politics; London; British Rail; Rail safety; Trains; Public expenditure; Public inquiries; Glasgow; Railway accidents; Clapham Junction railway accident (1988); AM (radio programme); Purley

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