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Alycidon wrote:ChrisWoods wrote:Getting back on topic (and away from personal slanging matches), wasn't there an accident at Clarkson (or is that the Newton one?)
Not a railway accident, but a very nasty gas explosion in 1971 that smashed the shops beside the line to rubble, killing 22 & injuring many others in the process
Simba wrote:lynnski wrote:Don't remember much about it, and can't really find anything on Google. Wasn't part of Largs train station demolished by a runaway train??
Yeah, it went through the buffers. 1994 or 1995 I think.
MadMac wrote:MacotheIsles wrote:The Invergowrie crash was due to a communication error - 'Lunan Bay' was confused with 'Letham Grange', or vice versa.
Different incident. Invergowrie was a signal passed at Danger, then the train ran into the back of a failed one. Lunan Bay was several years earlier. Reports for both on "Railways Archive" (see above for link).
james73 wrote:Simba wrote:lynnski wrote:Don't remember much about it, and can't really find anything on Google. Wasn't part of Largs train station demolished by a runaway train??
Yeah, it went through the buffers. 1994 or 1995 I think.
Summer 1995 it was.
James H
MacotheIsles wrote:Re. the Pendolino crash. In all the photos I've seen it shows trailing points which I wouldn't think could account for the deflection that took place. Was there a set of facing points just behind the trailing ones?
dave2 wrote:Which plays into Richard Branson's hands. He wants an extra 2 carriages per train (no 10 & 11) to meet a projected increase un demand over the next 5-10 years. The business case for this was looking shaky as RBS subsidiary Angel Trains weren't keen to invest when the Government were threatening to report them (and other rolling stock companies) to the Office of Fair Trading, which could lead to a decrease in the leasing costs of these new carriages, and them not making back their investment. However if Virgin now need to buy not 106 carriages, but 115 plus a new driving carriage, then the business case is strengthened, since without it Virgin will have to run Voyagers on some services.
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