A concerned local reported the tree lying across the tracks before a train drove into it.
(Permalink) Broughty Ferry HST Inter7City Intercity 125 ScotRail Storm Gerrit Tree on line

A train driver should have been alerted to a fallen tree and campaigners call for funding to prevent floods.
(Permalink) Broughty Ferry HST Inter7City Intercity 125 ScotRail Storm Gerrit Tree on line

The train drivers' union Aslef said the type of train involved in the incident during Storm Gerrit was 'outdated'.
(Permalink) ASLEF HST Inter7City Intercity 125 ScotRail Storm Gerrit

The Intercity 125 trains still used by ScotRail are more than 40 years old and have been called museum pieces.
(Permalink) HST Inter7City Intercity 125 ScotRail

The crash occurred at Broughty Ferry on Wednesday as Storm Gerrit swept across the country.
(Permalink) Broughty Ferry HST HST Inter7City Intercity 125 Storm Gerrit Tree on line

The National Railway Museum in York is proud of its InterCity 125 train. And it should be, for the Sir Kenneth Grange, named after its designer, was built in 1975, making it as old as the museum itself. 'As well as being the first InterCity 125 produced, Sir Kenneth Grange was the last 125 to operate a passenger service before this type of locomotive was retired from the railways', its website says.
(Permalink) HST Inter7City InterCity 125 NRM Stonehaven derailment

HST125 returned into service on a trial run for tours.
(Permalink) 43150 43163 HST InterCity 125 Strathspey Railway