Train services to and from Paddington Station will resume tomorrow morning, more than two weeks after the train crash which claimed 30 lives, it was announced last night.
Railtrack said the west London station would reopen at one minute to midnight today and services would resume tomorrow.
The announcement came as the British Deputy Prime Minister, Mr John Prescott, pledged in the Commons to establish "a more open, more responsive, more rigorous culture of safety" across the entire rail industry as a legacy of the inquiries into rail safety following the Paddington crash.
The tough stance came after the Health and Safety Executive accepted safety proposals put forward by the rail operator, Railtrack, to enable Paddington station to reopen.
The HSE imposed a 50 m.p.h. speed limit around Paddington, a decision that came in the light of a report by safety experts into rail signals in the area that recommended 19 should be taken out of use and eight simplified.
The controversial Signal 109, which was passed at danger shortly before the Paddington crash, has been taken out of use.
In a Commons statement on the crash, Mr Prescott told MPs yesterday that he had summoned the managing directors of all passenger and freight operators, the shadow Strategic Rail Authority, the Rail Regulator, Railtrack and the rail unions in an attempt to "thrash out" any immediate and additional steps needed to improve rail safety.
The meeting, which will take place next Monday, will focus on the Health and Safety Executive's report on Signals Passed At Danger (SPADs) or trains passing red signals and Railtrack's safety and standards directorate.
In the seven days following the Paddington crash, Mr Prescott said there were 16 SPADs. The number of SPADs had also increased to 643, after falling from about 1,000 in 1991 to under 600 in 1997.
Confirming the latest casualty figures from the Paddington crash which stood at 30 dead and 245 injured, Mr Prescott told the Commons the crash must be "a watershed for railway safety.
Turning to Monday evening's rail incident when a passenger train crashed into an empty train at Lewes in East Sussex after passing through a red light, Mr Prescott said the "likeliest explanation" for the crash was a number of errors by platform staff and the train crew. No one was seriously injured in the crash.
Mr Prescott said he was determined to ensure that the rail industry greatly reduced the number of SPADs.