Statements have been taken from 2,100 people who have worked on the stretch of line recently.A BTP spokesman, Simon Lubin, said that sabotage was still not being ruled out, but was unlikely. “It’s not a likely scenario that five people in high- visibility jackets were out to sabotage a piece of line,” he said.Appealing to the workers to come forward, he added: “We would like to hear from them because it’s important we speak to everybody who was there or thereabouts.”Railtrack officials said they were co-operating fully with the BTP investigation into the crash. They said in a statement: “Railtrack continues to assist the British Transport Police and the Health and Safety Executive and we have been working with them to try to identify people on the track that day. It is right and proper for Railtrack to provide information to the inquiry and wrong to speculate further.”One survivor, the author Nina Bowden, whose husband, Austen Kark, died in the accident, also dismissed the sabotage claims. Instead she blamed “poor maintenance, poor standards, cutting corners, all the sorts of things people do when they have no real feeling for the industry they are working in”.So far in the investigation, as well as speaking to more than 2,100 people, police have taken about 350 statements and tagged more than 800 exhibits.. QPM

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