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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Nicholas Cecil

London trains crash horror: Driver sped up after going past red signal and hit brake 10 seconds before disaster

A train driver killed in a rail crash north of London continued to speed up after going through a red signal, say investigators.

Shaun Burton, 60, died when the East Midlands Railway (EMR) train he was driving went into the back of a stationary train run by the same operator near Elstow in Bedfordshire on June 19.

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