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Asked about it so i got scolded for mentioning it on the radio and he wrote the railroad culture is to avoid admitting operating irregularities on the recorded radio channel. amtrak declined to comment on the postings. from my vantage, 40 years in the railway industry and dealing with safety the railroad industry takes safety very, very seriously. that was cnn s brian todd reporting. an automatic braking system wasn t installed on the stretch of rail where this incident occurred. the technology is supposed to be in place by the end of 2015, but uk rails are already operating a lower tech version of the automatic brakes. phil black explains how it works. reporter: west london, september 1997. passenger train and a freight train collide killing seven, injuring more than 100. two years later another collision involving a passenger train in london kills 31 people. ....

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