Channel: Plainly Difficult

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Description: #Disaster #Railway #History Learn while you're at home with Plainly Difficult! In the morning rush our of the 12 December 1988, a crowded passenger train crashed into the rear of another train outside Clapham Junction railway station in London, and subsequently sideswiped an empty train travelling in the opposite direction. The disaster claimed 35 lives, with 484 injured. The collision was caused by a signal failure due to wiring fault. New wiring had been installed, but the old wiring had been left still connected on one end and not adequately isolated on the other. The horror of the disaster is fascinating, as the event was completely avoidable and rewrote health and safety law in the UK. Want to become a channel member?youtube.com/channel/UCb0MyY46T9ZYOzDHkYnIoXg/join Paypal Donate Link: paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=KC293ZJVG2VZG&source=url Help the Channel Grow Like, Comment & Subscribe! Subscribe Here: youtube.com/channel/UCb0M... Equipment used in this video: Rode NTG3, Audient ID4, MacBook Pro 16, Hitfilm, Garage Band Check out My Twitter: twitter.com/Plainly_D Check out these other great channels: youtube.com/user/dominotitanic20/community youtube.com/user/CynicalC... youtube.com/user/JabzyJoe youtube.com/channel/UCGHDQtN_vzFYJaq_Fx1eikg Sources: railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/DoT_Hidden001.pdf youtu.be/4U5oLy_VuyU vimeo.com/317659206 By Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21935909 By mattbuck (category) - Photo by mattbuck., CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7517149