Managing Director of Thames trains Michael Hodson leaves Bow Street
magistrates court in London, December 10, 2003. Rail firm Thames Trains
pleaded guilty on Wednesday to breaching safety laws in a 1999 London
train crash that killed 31 people when a Thames Trains commuter train
ran through a red light and collided with a Great Western train at
Paddington station. REUTERS/Michael Crabtree

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