The last serious train crash in Britain was in Southall, west London, in 1997 when seven people died.
Great Western Trains was fined a record £1.5 million in July after an inquiry.
The following is a chronology of some of the worst train crashes in Britain in recent years.
June 23rd, 1999: A Glasgow-bound inter-city train crashed into a stationary commuter service outside Winsford in Cheshire, injuring about 30 people.
January 8th, 1999: Seven passengers, including a pregnant woman, were rescued by crane after two trains collided outside London Bridge station.
September 19th, 1997: Seven people were killed and 150 injured when an express train from Swansea smashed into a freight train at Southall, west London.
August 8th, 1996: One woman was killed and 66 people were injured when a commuter train crashed into an empty train travelling in the opposite direction in the town of Watford to the northwest of London.
March 9th, 1996: One person was killed and 24 were injured when a mail train collided with a cargo train near Stafford.
January 31st, 1995: One person was killed and another was seriously injured when a passenger train crashed into the rear of another train which had been derailed by a landslide in a remote valley in northern England.
July 22nd, 1991: Four people were killed and more than 20 injured when two suburban trains collided head-on in Scotland.
January 8th, 1991: One person was killed and 248 were injured when a train hit the buffers at London's Cannon Street station.
April 20th, 1989: An engine-driver was killed when his locomotive crashed into a freight train in southern England.
March 6th, 1989: Two people were killed and 44 were injured when two trains collided head-on near Glasgow.
March 4th, 1989: Six people were killed and at least 50 injured when two passenger trains smashed into each other in Purley on the southern outskirts of London.
December 12th, 1988: Thirty-five people were killed in a crash involving three trains at Clapham Junction in London.