Travel chaos as Heathrow Express hits metal trolley left by Network Rail engineers [Telegraph]





Date: 28/12/2014

Network Rail has been blamed for putting 200 passengers' lives at risk when a high-speed Heathrow Express train crashed into engineering equipment left on the tracks by its employees. The morning service from Heathrow to Paddington slammed into a heavy metal trolley close to Stockley junction shortly after 10am yesterday. Network Rail workers took nearly three hours to restore the service after the “mangled” trolley was stuck under the front of the train.


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Travel chaos as Heathrow Express hits metal trolley left by Network Rail engineers

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Heathrow Express trains were cancelled for nearly three hours after a high-speed train hit a metal trolley which had been left on the track by Network Rail engineers

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