The signalmen in the box spoke to railway control at Waterloo, but due to confusion about the location of the trains, police in East Sussex were first contacted.
[9] The line is equipped with four aspect colour light signalling[note 1] and British Rail's Automatic Warning System (AWS).
[12] The report recommended that an automatic train protection system should be introduced without delay, and in the interim a repeater for the signal that had been passed be installed.
[14] Morgan's sentence was later cut on appeal to four months, and on 12 December 2007 his conviction for manslaughter was overturned by the Court of Appeal, ruling the conviction unsafe as "something about the infrastructure of this particular junction was causing mistakes to be made" as new evidence showed that there had been four previous signals passed at danger at the same location in the five years before the crash.
[15] He died in March 2009, aged 66, as a result of drowning whilst sailing in the River Medina on the Isle of Wight.