Date: 18/11/2014

A freight train has crashed off the tracks in Northumberland.
The wagons, which were carrying coal from Blyth to Cottam power station, left the rails at West Sleekburn near Bedlington on Monday night.
Incredibly, nobody was injured in the crash. But the derailed DB Schenker train remained strewn across the line on Tuesday morning.

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Dramatic picture shows derailed train strewn across tracks in Bedlington

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The freight train, operated by DB Schenker, came off the rails at West Sleekburn in Northumberland but nobody was injured, the company said

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Scene at West Sleekburn Junction in the 1960s with 62067 approaching with empty hoppers off the North Blyth branch heading for Bedlington Furnace Way sidings. There the locomotive would run round its train before proceeding to one of the north main line collieries, most likely Widdrington opencast. (This journey involved running round six times in all, hence the brake van at each end of the train.) The road on the left is Bomarsund colliery metals and the sub signal on the facing road with the indicators is for Winning Colliery. The signal box in the background is the new West Sleekburn box, its predecessor having been destroyed by fire.
Location: West Sleekburn Junction
Company: Warkworth Extension (Blyth and Tyne Railway)
// Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney)

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