Steam driver and bosses in court over Wootton Bassett SPAD

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RAIB interim report

Dangerous occurrence at Wootton Bassett junction - web site update and supplementary information

I can't recall whether we have linked to this report already; apologies if this is a duplicate post.
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How it has been reported by the UK gutter press, in this case the Daily Mail. To be fair, the reporting in the text itself is not too bad, although they seem to rely heavily on quoting another newspaper, the Herald Scotland, as well as the RAIB report.

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