Rail safety

UK Aslef rail union boss Mick Whelan: ‘I'm not a great fan of glorious defeats’
After months of strikes causing transport chaos across the south-east, Mick Whelan is fast becoming Britain’s most-hated union leader. But the stakes are so high he won’t be backing down, he says
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jan/14/mick-whelan-aslef-train...

UK Railway terror alert reignites train drivers' union ASLEF row over safety staff
Train drivers' union ASLEF say the view from the cab is blurry and dark - vastly different from claims made by rail firms
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/railway-terror-alert-reignites-trai...
BYMARK ELLIS
• 18:05, 4 JAN 2017

Southern Railway train (Photo: PA)

Railroad Workers Harding and Labrie Defense Committee And Solidarity Campaign
https://actionnetwork.org/groups/harding-and-labrie-defense-committee

Railroads show little progress on key safety technology as Congress lets rail bosses and billionaires off the hook
Railroads show little progress on key safety technology
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-railroads-key-safety-technology.html
August 17, 2016 by Joan Lowy

"Blame the railroad industry and lobbyists, not the Amtrak engineer"
http://scienceblogs.com/thepumphandle/2016/05/19/blame-the-railroad-indu...
I heard the headline from CBS News on my car radio:

“NTSB to cite operator error in deadly Amtrak derailment.”