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3.1 Various accidents
3.1.1 Train collision at Ladbroke Grove Junction
On the morning of October 5, 1999, at Ladbroke Grove railway junction in West London, near Paddington station, a Thames Train turbo commuter train and a First Great Western high-speed train collided head-on. The accident, aggravated by a fire caused by a fuel leak from the turbo train, left 31 people dead, including the locomotive engineers of both trains, and 400 injured. The toll could have been higher had it not been for the rapid and effective...
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