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    Dec 31, 2018 3 minutes

    Nail-biting wait after Clapham crash

    YOUR editorial in the December issue of The RM reminded me of the events of 30 years ago.

    A little after seven o’clock, on our third wedding anniversary, my wife set off on her daily commute from Haslemere to Waterloo. A newscast an hour or so later alerted me to the collision at Clapham.

    It didn’t take me long to realise her train would have been somewhere near at the time of the crash, travelling on the same track.

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