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Nina Bawden's Carrie’s War heads for the stage

Nina Bawden From The Times By Valerie Grove

Published 24 June 2009

The “disgraceful and disappointing” news last week that there will be no public inquiry into the Potters Bar rail crash of 2002 confirms Nina Bawden’s scepticism about the bureaucratic chain of command. The novelist has done with campaigning about it. Network Rail took over rail maintenance from Railtrack, victims’ families were eventually compensated — but it was a long struggle and Bawden, despite being badly injured herself in the accident, was a doughty figurehead in…