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    The Clapham Train Accident: Causes, Context and the Corporate Memory Challenge
    The Clapham Train Accident: Causes, Context and the Corporate Memory Challenge
    The Clapham Train Accident: Causes, Context and the Corporate Memory Challenge
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    The Clapham Train Accident: Causes, Context and the Corporate Memory Challenge

    By Greg Morse

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    Clapham was a pivotal point in British railway history. Much technology had been invented and applied to accident prevention by 1988; much more was to come. The Clapham Train Accident considers Clapham in its wider context, using official reports and expert interviews to describe both the causes and the terrible effects. It looks beyond the railway to the external factors acting not only on British Rail, but also the government of the time, and considers the safety improvements that came about as a result.

    Finally, the book brings the story up to date and looks at why the lessons learned over thirty years ago still need to be retained in an industry where the baton of safety is all-too-easily dropped during re-organisation, re-branding and after the departure of those who lived through darker days to make ours shine more brightly.

    The concatenation of events, the errors, the reorganisations, the financial constraints, that led to Clapham could happen to any business in any industry. On the morning of 12 December 1988, they happened to the railway.

    The Clapham Train Accident will act as a cautionary tale for safety practitioners old and new, not just in rail, but also other safety critical industries. It will help readers think actions through to all consequences, helping them too to make safer decisions, particularly when changing a system, technology or method of working
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPen and Sword
    Release dateDec 30, 2023
    ISBN9781399073035
    The Clapham Train Accident: Causes, Context and the Corporate Memory Challenge
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    Greg Morse

    Greg Morse has worked in railway safety since 2005 and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Railway Operators. He has written extensively about the importance of remembering the past when making decisions about the future, and has spoken on that subject at many safety conferences and events. A rail historian, he grew up in Swindon, where he witnessed the end of the town’s railway factory and the birth of the Inter-City 125s.

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