Major emergency response after train derails near Stonehaven https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-53751678
Looks like the train has caught fire and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has tweeted it’s an extremely serious incident.
BBC News is reporting 2x Locomotives at the front and 4x Passenger Carriages. Also reporting the 2x Locomotives and 3x Passenger Carriages have derailed.
No, it's not... "It is understood that the front locomotive and three passenger carriages have left the track and are now sitting on an embankment."
That’s not what they said on the BBC News channel. It was definitely said 2x locomotives at the front. EDIT: The reporter may have misspoke though given the breaking news nature of the incident.
Taken from the BBC news report (the one with the broken link in the OP) The train was made up of two locomotives - at the front and back - and four carriages. It is understood that the front locomotive and three passenger carriages have left the track and are now sitting on an embankment. To me this means that a HST with four coaches has derailed, and everything bar the last coach and rear loco is off the rails It's likely the report on the telly was wrong
It does sound like a HST has been involved. Yep, I agree, the article on the BBC News app says 2 locomotives front and back and four passenger cars. The reporter on the TV channel either misspoke or wrote the details down wrong. He was referring to his note pad.
Yes, it's an HST: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...uries-after-train-derails-scotland-stonehaven
Very sorry to hear this news... my heart goes out to all of the people (and the families behind them) affected by this tragedy.
This is awful of course and I wouldn't pretend otherwise but I'm always a little dismayed by the amount of media attention and particularly the histrionics that train crashes attract. Inevitably they're likely to be very public incidents and mercifully uncommon both of which make them newsworthy but can anyone imagine the First Minister getting involved if three people died in a car crash? Or even being informed about it through channels?
I think it’s more because they’re a public service and so people are putting their lives in other people’s hands. The train can’t have been going that fast when it derailed, but it was obviously a severe enough crash to wreck the lives of three people and their friends and families lives too. Such a shame.
The BBC has shown aerial footage of the train wreck now. It looks a right mess. Fortunately, not that many people onboard or it could have been a much worse tragedy. I can’t make out where the lead locomotive has gone - which suggests it is outside of the area shown in the footage.
It’s obviously too early to say what has happened, but the seriousness of the wreck looks like the train was going reasonably quickly. I’m probably completely wrong. There was only 12 people onboard. 6 passengers and 6 crew.
Does look that way, but i know nothing about that stretch of the line. RIP to all who died and i can't imagine what the survivors went through. Being a passenger, for example in a car when it goes wrong is bad enough as you aren't in control, dread to think of what it was like on that train.