the next signal after the faulty signal, in accordance with the rule book. Railway historian Adrian Vaughan suggests this may not be the best way of handling faulty signals. If the Basingstoke train had carried on to the signal following the next signal, the crash would not have happened because the Bournemouth train would have stopped at the signal where the crash occurred. As of 1999, the rule book had not been changed. In 2017, a Rail Accident Investigation Branch report into a serious irregularity at on 29 December 2016 revealed that some of the lessons from the Clapham Junction accident appeared to have been forgotten. In that incident, a pair of redundant points had been left in an unsafe condition and undetectable by the signalling system. The alertness of a driver prevented a serious accident. Excessive working hours, cancellation of route-proving trains and lack of detailed planning were identified as contributory factors to the incident. A year later, a report into a collision at London Waterloo highlighted similar circumstances, saying that "some of the lessons from the 1988 Clapham Junction accident are fading from the railway industry's collective memory". References Notes Bibliography Further reading External links BBC News story on the crash Image of crash scene on danger-ahead.railfan.net Railway accidents in 1988 Railway accidents and incidents in London 1988 disasters in the United Kingdom 1988 in London History of the London Borough of Wandsworth Transport in the London Borough of Wandsworth Accidents and incidents involving Network SouthEast December 1988 events in the United Kingdom Train collisions in England