When two passenger trains collided in Salisbury in October last year, a major incident was declared by the emergency services and 15 people, including one of the drivers, were taken to hospital. Preliminary findings by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) attributed the incident to the South Western Railway train involved in the crash passing ...
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Collision between passenger trains at Salisbury Tunnel Junction, 31 October 2021.
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Accident inspectors found many areas around site had a medium or heavy level of contamination. Engineering work delayed the cleaning of rails in Salisbury last October, less than two hours before a passenger train skidded on leaves stuck to the line and crashed, injuring 14, investigators have found.The routine autumn cleaning work had been rescheduled from 5pm to 11pm the same evening but at 6.43pm a South Western Railway train was unable to stop on the slippery tracks and collided with a Great Western Railway service outside a tunnel near Salisbury, Wiltshire.
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Investigation into a collision between passenger trains at Salisbury Tunnel Junction, Wiltshire, 31 October 2021.
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In response to today's (2 November) statement from the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) regarding the Salisbury collision, Martin Frobisher, Network Rail's safety and engineering director, said: 'Sunday's accident was incredibly frightening for everyone involved and our thoughts are with everyone injured or affected in any way.

'Initial findings suggest that low adhesion played a key part in causing the collision. It's an issue that affects railways across the world and is something that we, and our train operator colleagues, work hard to combat so that we can run trains safely and reliably throughout autumn, and why incidents such as the one in Salisbury at the weekend are incredibly rare.

'We will continue to work closely with investigators to understand what happened and what more we can do to help prevent this happening again.'
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Rail accident inspectors have said it is too early to release indications of what caused the collision between two trains at Salisbury on Sunday evening. But by now CCTV and data logs from signals and trains are likely to have given them a strong idea of what led the Great Western and South Western Railway services to crash into each other. That might prove to be a fault with the signal; or that a train passed a red light; that the brakes failed; or even that the brakes worked but the wheels slid, in the season when leaves on the line can make the rails treacherous.
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Investigators trying to establish cause of collision between two trains that left 13 people needing treatment. Rail investigators are urgently trying to establish the cause of a collision between two trains that led to at least 13 people needing hospital treatment. Firefighters and other emergency workers evacuated 100 people from the trains in Salisbury, Wiltshire, after the accident on Sunday night. One of the train drivers had to be cut free from his cab.
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It is thought about 12 people have been injured and a train driver is believed to be trapped.
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