Landslips will hit rail lines again, official report into Stonehaven disaster warns

A Network Rail report into the Stonehaven train crash disaster found that landslips caused by heavy rainfall will continue to affect Britain’s railway lines because it is not ‘economically viable’ to strengthen them. Network Rail’s interim report confirmed that the ScotRail train ‘struck a pile of washed-out stone covering the line’ causing it to derail in the … Read more

Investigators will probe how Stonehaven rail crash went unnoticed due to poor phone signal

Investigators will probe how Britain’s worst rail tragedy for a decade went unnoticed for a ‘significant’ period of time due to poor mobile phone signal. Passenger Chris Stuchbury, 62, train driver Brett McCullough, 45, and conductor Donald Dinnie, 58, were killed after a ScotRail 6.38am service from Aberdeen to Glasgow derailed and slid down an … Read more