Getting Away With Murder
Cathy Nugent reviews Derailed, BBC1, Tuesday 20 September This drama-documentary of the Paddington rail disaster didn’t really tell us anything new about that appalling event — most of the facts came out at the public enquiry and were documented in the Cullen Report of the enquiry. It did however demonstrate in devastating detail exactly who was to blame for the disaster — a culture of corporate disregard for safety and drive for profit among the train operating companies and Railtrack; layers of incompetent and disorganised bureaucracy; individuals who spend their lives enriching shareholders...