Ladbroke Grove happened 25 years ago today: the long and short of it is, an inexperienced driver passed a red signal at a notorious section of track not far from Paddington, putting his train into the path of an intercity train travelling at top speed. Thirty-one people were killed in the resulting crash because of inadequate privatisation-era driver training, and Railtrack's failure to grasp the scope or scale of the issue with the signal.