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This paper discusses wider engineering lessons that may be drawn from the investigation of a train derailment that occurred on the Northern Line of London Underground on 19 October 2003 at Camden Town. It summarises the accident investigation process followed and the main findings and discusses: the management of “legacy” systems; maintaining the links between design intent and maintenance practice; the concept of insidious criticality; and the use of standards to control interactions.
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Payne, K. (2005). Learning from a Train Derailment. In: Redmill, F., Anderson, T. (eds) Constituents of Modern System-safety Thinking. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-84628-130-X_6
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