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felooboolooombayesterday at 9:43 PM3 repliesview on HN

There was also a very peculiar train crash in the UK just a few days ago. A train hit a stationary train. That shouldn't really happen in this day and age. Sabotage was the first thing that came to my mind.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gy60gg6k5o


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beejiuyesterday at 10:01 PM

Yes, and just yesterday a passenger train was routed into the path of a freight train due to some points failure. It does make you wonder. https://www.railmagazine.com/news/points-failure-results-in-...

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OJFordyesterday at 9:45 PM

Maybe. OP isn't saying it's necessarily malicious interference though.

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gib444yesterday at 10:08 PM

There was a GSM-R outage in the UK last month ago too [0]

[0] https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/nationwide-gsmr-outage-...