Just seen this flag up on my feed this morning, thoughts to all those involved. For reference, it was 390117, 04:28am departure from GLC to Euston. https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/...ely-escorted-train-following-crash-near-shap/
All cleared up but looking at how the train came to rest, lucky nothing coming in the opposite direction otherwise we would have had another Heck situation.
Does anyone know why the front nose came off? Was it removed after the crash or was it removed by the crash and where did the nose go?
Looking at all the clarts all over the front, my guess is it was bonked off by the mud hitting it at that speed.
According to NR, it wasn't large enough to trip the landslide detection systems but was large enough to derail the TPE train. Having seen the pics of the landslide area, it is a relatively small slide. There was a train heading northbound but it was stopped when the big red emergency button was pressed on the GSM-R by the affected train's driver.
Yikes. Seems self-evident that those two things should have overlap, not a gap. That's a pretty huge fail.
There was a TPE train about 5 minutes in the other direction, thankfully the crash was just early enough for the TPE to be alerted and stopped.
