Derailment track 'just worked on' [BBC News]
Date: 11/05/2004
Maintenance work had taken place on a tube line the night before a train derailed, it is revealed. A set of points at the centre of an investigation into Tuesday^s Tube derailment had been the scene of maintenance work the night before.
Metronet, which maintains the track, said they would be looking into their work after the incident near White City station, west London, at 1227 BST.
Some 150 passengers were led to safety after the seventh car of the eight-car train derailed on the Central Line.
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Maintenance work had taken place on a tube line the night before a train derailed, it is revealed.
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