[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by Nicky91

not everyone can work from home though





someone responsible here i suggest take a look at maintenance records of this specific train, maintenance crew for those train-rails too, or look at weather stats like if the track was damaged due to a recent storm what occured before this incident

They know why it happened Nicky - landslides into the track, caused by torrential rainfall in the crazy lightning storms on the East Coast of Scotland the night before.

From reports so far it seems that they are carrying out a safety review of parts of the rail network that are at risk of the same thing happening. Part of the problem is that the rail network across the whole UK has some very old routes, being one of the earliest countries to have a rail network, and so there are stretches of track where if you were building one in modern times, you just wouldn't even build there.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...just awful...3 people leave their homes and families that day for what would seem a ‘normal day’ and they never return...it’s heartbreaking, I can’t imagine the worlds of their families right now....just so, so tragic.....

Yes The Driver reversed
as he could see a landslip ahead
but then another landslip just started.


Getting a Rail crane in there, to help.



[6.38am: Despite heavy rain overnight in the area,
the train left Aberdeen station as normal, bound for Glasgow Queen Street.

6.53am: The train calls at Stonehaven station as normal,
before departing and heading south.

Between 6.53am and 9.40am: After leaving Stonehaven,
the train continued south, before encountering a landslip, caused by torrential rain.

It began to return north to Stonehaven, initially remaining on the
southbound line before crossing at Carmont onto the northbound line.
It then hit a second landslip and derailed while returning to Stonehaven.]