LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Inquest into the Clapham rail disaster

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

14 Feb 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:04:14

Description

Margaret Shiels reports on the inquest into the deaths of 35 people in the Clapham rail disaster and British Rail’s awarding of compensation. Includes interview with Ian Walker, lawyer, on the plans keep distress to the relatives to a minimum-learning from the mistakes of the Kings Cross fire inquest and public inquiry; the scope of the inquest and public inquiry to follow; help it can give for those grieving; possibility for criminal charges to be brought afterwards.

Contributors

Ian Walker; Margaret Shiels

Keywords

Deaths; British Rail; Compensation; Inquests; Public inquiries; Railway accidents; Clapham Junction railway accident (1988); Coroners; Kings Cross Underground fires (1987); Paul Knapman

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