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Sentence today

THAMES Trains is today being sentenced after admitting two offences under the Health and Safety at Work Act over the October 1999 Paddington rail crash.

A Thames Trains Turbo train crashed virtually head-on with a First Great Western express train about two miles west of Paddington station in west London on the morning of October 5, 1999. The train had earlier passed through Swindon

The Thames driver Michael Hodder, the Great Western driver Brian Cooper and 29 passengers were killed in the crash.