A rail worker who falsified records linked to railway level
crossing inspections has been sacked.
It followed a "comprehensive internal investigation" by Network
Rail into claims crossings in the Anglia area were not inspected as
ordered.
Network Rail is believed to have investigated allegations that
nine inspections had not been done despite the paperwork claiming
they had.
A Network Rail spokesman said: "Network Rail has taken action
against the individual concerned and put in place a robust plan
which has seen more than two-thirds of the crossings on the Anglia
route inspected in the last nine months, finding no cause for
concern at any crossing.
"The fact that these discrepancies were picked up so quickly -
and that swift action was taken against the individual concerned -
demonstrates clearly that the procedures we have in place are fit
for purpose and do the job they are there to do, which is to keep
the public safe."
There are more than 1,000 level crossings on the Anglia route,
and more than 700 have been inspected in the last nine months.
None of the allegations involve the level crossing at Sudbury in
Suffolk at the centre of one Britain's more recent
rail disasters, after a train was derailed earlier this month
when it hit a sewage tanker, injuring 22 people.
The 38-year-old tanker driver has been charged with endangering
safety on the railway.