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Rail crash firm is fined £2m

THE COMPANY responsible for a train crash that claimed the lives of 31 people, including a Dursley school caretaker, has this week been hit with a record-breaking fine.

Thames Trains was fined £2 million for the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster in which Rednock School caretaker Bob Cotton lost his life.

Mr Cotton had been travelling on a Paddington-bound First Great Western express travelling from Cheltenham Spa on October 5, 1999, when it collided with a Thames Train bound for Bedwyn in Wiltshire.

An inquiry into the accident concluded an inexperienced Thames Train driver, missing a red light close to Paddington station, caused the accident.