News - Stonehaven derailment
News related to the fatal derailment of a ScotRail Inter7City HST a mile north of Carmont at Carron Water Bridge [West Carmont] on 12/08/2020. Referred to as the Stonehaven or Carmont derailment.
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The Stonehaven train crash claimed the lives of three people in Aberdeenshire.
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All public bodies and companies responsible for public infrastructure must ensure it is able to cope with our changing climate
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The rail body is being prosecuted at the High Court in Aberdeen over its failures in the decade before the tragedy, which killed three people in 2020.
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The driver of the ScotRail train who was among three people killed after it crashed into debris washed onto the tracks had just been told by a Network Rail signaller that 'everything's fine' moments before the derailment, the High Court in Aberdeen has heard. The revelation came as the UK Government-run infrastructure body admitted health and safety failings over the derailment at Carmont, south of Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire, on August 12, 2020.
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Network Rail is suspected to be fined after the train derailment but individuals should be held responsible, says Record View.
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The railway operator admitted it didn't warn driver it was unsafe for train to run on section of track before derailment near Stonehaven.
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Survivor of train that derailed near Stonehaven in 2020 recounts her experience for the first time.
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The indictment alleges he was not told the track was unsafe before the fatal 2020 derailment.
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Railway safety will come under scrutiny with Network Rail, the UK's railway infrastructure company, set to face charges in relation to the 2020 Stonehaven rail crash.
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Three people died when a train hit a landslide after heavy rain near Stonehaven in 2020. Network Rail is due to face criminal action at the High Court in Aberdeen on 7 September.
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Scotland's railways are at the centre of safety concerns as it emerged 18 out of 20 official recommendations for action in the wake of the Stonehaven rail disaster have still not been completed after a year amidst concerns over swingeing cuts.
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Network Rail will reportedly be prosecuted for its failings over the Stonehaven railway crash in which three people were killed.
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A police investigation into the Stonehaven rail crash has now been passed on to the Crown Office.
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Trade union Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA) has called on ScotRail to ditch its high-speed rail train fleet two years on from the fatal Stonehaven crash. The organisation says the trains are a risk to passengers being able to survive derailments.
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Stonehaven rail crash investigators are being urged to finish their probe soon to 'heal the pain' of the families whose loved ones died two years ago today.
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On the two year anniversary of the Carmont rail tragedy, Network Rail is dragging its feet dangerously on key safety recommendations, the countrys largest rail union RMT has warned today.
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A former rail company director has raised concerns over the continued use of the model of train involved in the Stonehaven crash, calling for speed limits to be introduced for the trains until they are removed from service.
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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.
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Daily Record exclusive: Train drivers trade union ASLEF now claims lives could have been saved if its warning had been heeded. Rail safety watchdogs repeatedly ignored drivers concerns about the model of train at the centre of the deadly Stonehaven crash, the Daily Record can reveal. The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) rejected calls by train drivers trade union ASLEF for a probe into the decades-old HST fleet two years before the tragedy.
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Derailment of a passenger train at Carmont, Aberdeenshire, 12 August 2020.
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Commenting on the publication of the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) Carmont report, Andrew Haines, Network Rail chief executive, said: 'This report makes clear that there are fundamental lessons to be learnt by Network Rail and the wider industry. As well as expressing our deep sorrow and regret at the loss of the lives of Christopher Stuchbury, Donald Dinnie and Brett McCullough, its important that we acknowledge it should not have taken this tragic accident to highlight those lessons. We must do better and we are utterly committed to that.
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Three people died when the train hit a landslide in heavy rain in Aberdeenshire in 2020.
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Commenting on the publication of the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) independent report into the accident at Carmont on 12 August 2020, Ian McConnell, ScotRail Chief Operating Officer, said: 'This report is a terrible reminder of the awful events of 12 August 2020. Nobody in ScotRail or the wider industry will ever forget what happened.'
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HM Chief Inspector of Railways, Ian Prosser CBE said: Our thoughts remain with the families of Donald Dinnie, Brett McCullough and Christopher Stuchbury at this time. We welcome RAIBs recommendations today and will work with industry to ensure these are addressed quickly and effectively. Our own joint investigation with Police Scotland and British Transport Police is making good progress and we anticipate handing over the final report to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service in the coming months.
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The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) doesn't often hold media briefings in Scotland - I haven't been to one in my two decades covering transport. But when they do, they have something important to say. That became quickly apparent in Aberdeen on Wednesday when four expert officials from the UK Government body set out the key points of their 296-page final report into the fatal Carmont rail crash, in which three people died in 2020.
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RMT calls for urgent safety summit and halt to job cuts to prevent more rail tragedies.
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Rail control room staff failed to limit the speed of a train that then crashed - despite knowing about hazards nearby, a new report has said.
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Loved ones of those who died in the Stonehaven rail crash have reacted with disbelief and anger to the final investigation report, accusing officials of a catalogue of errors.
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The new Rail Accident Investigation Branch sheds light on what went wrong before the crash which led to the deaths of Brett McCullough, Donald Dinnie and Christopher Stuchbury.
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The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) has made 20 recommendations in its highly critical report into the incident at Stonehaven on August 12 2020.
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A man is facing court accused of injuring firefighters who were responding to the Stonehaven train derailment by leaving the handbrake off his vehicle, causing it to roll down a hill and crash into them.
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Board minutes from July, but just made public, reveal that Network Rail senior executives are eager to allocate more funding to drainage works in light of the Carmont tragedy which saw three people killed and a further six injured after a train derailed in Aberdeenshire in August 2020.
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The managing director of Scotland's Railway, the partnership between Abellio ScotRail and Network Rail Scotland, has called on the transport sector to decarbonise in memory of the Stonehaven rail crash victims.
Alex Hynes claimed Scotland was reminded of the 'devastating impact of climate change' when three people were 'tragically killed on our rail network'. (Permalink) Alex Hynes Carron Water Bridge [West Carmont] Derailment Electrification Green Landslide ScotRail Stonehaven derailment |
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A final report into the Stonehaven rail crash last year that killed three people will not be ready until 2022.
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The familiar thrum of activity at Aberdeen station was broken for a minute this morning, as passengers and crews paid tribute to the three men killed in the Stonehaven rail crash a year ago today.
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Railway staff will remember the victims of the Stonehaven rail crash one year on from the tragedy with enormous sadness.
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A plaque honouring the victims of the Stonehaven rail crash is to be unveiled tomorrow - a year on from the tragedy.
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Network Rail has a helicopter and engineers 'ready to respond' as Scotland prepares for major rainfall this week, almost a year on after a landslip resulted in a fatal derailment near Stonehaven after a period of extreme weather.
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The Office of Rail and Roads annual assessment of Network Rail Scotland's performance in 2020-21 highlights a difficult year for the region. The derailment of a ScotRail service at Carmont, near Stonehaven, in which three people died, tragically demonstrates the need for Network Rail to make sure that railway assets are resilient to the impacts of extreme weather and climate change
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Although RAIB's final report into last year's tragic derailment at Stonehaven is still awaited, we know now that a significant contributing factor was heavy rainfall washing material onto the track. The accident resulted in the first earthwork-related fatality since the death of a guard at Ais Gill on the Settle-Carlisle line in January 1995.
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Although the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) has yet to produce its final report on the fatal train crash at Carmont on 12 August 2020, there are now clear lessons about earthworks and weather management from this tragic event. Network Rails earthworks assets comprise 70,000 soil cuttings, 20,000 rock cuttings and 100,000 embankments.
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The type of ScotRail train involved in the fatal Stonehaven derailment should be withdrawn from service because of their lack of crashworthiness, a rail engineer has urged.
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A rail engineer has called for the type of train involved in the tragic Stonehaven derailment to be scrapped amid safety concerns.
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The publication yesterday of the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) Interim Report on the derailment of a passenger train at Carmont, Aberdeenshire, last August offers more questions than answers, writes Lisa Gregory. Despite the huge advances we have seen in road safety, workplace safety, and health and safety law generally, we accept that accidents still happen and that some accidents ...
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A union has urged Network Rail to examine 'every mile' of Scottish track to ensure the Stonehaven train crash which killed three people.
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Derailment of a passenger train at Carmont, Aberdeenshire, 12 August 2020.
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A report says a signaller was not aware of any obstruction on the line where a train crashed, killing three people.
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The family of an Aberdeen man, killed when a train derailed near Stonehaven last summer, say their grief is still 'very raw' - as they speak publicly about their loss for the first time.
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Three people died when a ScotRail train hit stones washed onto the track in Aberdeenshire on August 12 last year.
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Contractors at the scene of the Stonehaven rail disaster ran after hearing a 'loud rumbling noise,' a new report has said.
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The ScotRail train which derailed near Stonehaven leaving three people dead and six other injured came off the tracks after striking stones and debris, an official report has ruled.
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A relative of one of the Stonehaven derailment victims has commissioned her own report into the tragedy.
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A report has been published into the fatal accident that occurred near Carmont on the national rail network in Scotland on 12 August 2020.
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A report following the Stonehaven train crash recommends greater use of aerial safety checks.
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An interim report into the Stonehaven rail crash has been received by the procurator fiscal, six months on from the tragedy.
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The sister of a man who died in the Stonehaven rail crash has accused rail authorities of 'structural failures' after a third safety incident came to light.
(Permalink) Carmont Carron Water Bridge [East Croft of Carmont] Carron Water Bridge [West Carmont] Stonehaven derailment Carron Water Bridge [West Carmont]: The huge Ainscough crane being used at the Carmont crash site to lift the rear power car out on 10th September 2020.
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Investigation into trains exceeding an emergency speed restriction between Laurencekirk and Portlethen, Aberdeenshire, 4 December 2020.
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An investigation has been launched into trains speeding through the site of the Stonehaven rail crash despite emergency restrictions being in place over landslip fears.
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It is understood survivors of the accident near Stonehaven in which three people died are involved in legal action.
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In the aftermath of the Stonehaven crash, our readers asked exactly what happened, how it happened, and why. We spoke to a panel of some of the UK's leading rail experts, and leaders of rail unions, to find out more about the derailment.
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It has been a challenging year for Network Rail.
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A fund for the families of three men killed in the Stonehaven train derailment raises more than £142,000.
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The line between Aberdeen and Dundee closed after the crash in August which left three people dead.
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An expert has called for rail bosses to 'react quickly' to restore consumer confidence as the line between Aberdeen and Dundee finally reopens following the fatal derailment at Stonehaven this summer.
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The line between Aberdeen and Dundee will reopen on Tuesday, November 3, after the completion of work to repair the railway following Augusts tragic derailment.
(Permalink) Carmont Derailment Landslide Stonehaven derailment Carron Water Bridge [West Carmont]: The huge Ainscough crane being used at the Carmont crash site to lift the rear power car out on 10th September 2020.
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ScotRail is to restart through trains between Aberdeen and Dundee after the completion of major track repairs following a fatal derailment in August.
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Four emergency workers needed medical attention after the Network Rail manager allegedly forgot to activate the handbrake in the powerful SUV.
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The latest stage in extensive recovery and reinstatement works has begun following the Stonehaven derailment on August 12.
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The Stonehaven rail crash and stormy weather led to NHS Grampian cancelling dozens of operations in the summer, it has emerged.
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The work of rescuers at last month's fatal north-east train crash has been praised as police handed control of the site back to Network Rail.
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Transport Secretary Grant Shapps makes the comparison about the Stonehaven crash in the House of Commons.
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The first carriage to be removed from the site of the fatal derailment near Stonehaven has been mounted to the back of a lorry and transported south.
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The operation to remove all four of the carriages and two power cars is expected to take several days, depending on weather conditions.
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Government publishes Network Rails interim report on 12 Augusts tragic derailment of a passenger train at Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire.
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A Glasgow-bound train which was derailed near Stonehaven is being recovered from the site of the crash.
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Lifting begins to remove carriages from the track near Stonehaven.
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A report into the fatal derailment near Stonehaven says the industry must improve its response to extreme weather.
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It is not worth the money to strengthen all 'substandard infrastructure' on the rail network, train chiefs have acknowledged.
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Emergency instructions have been issued over train controls after the fatal crash near Stonehaven, a report revealed today.
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Network Rail's work to reopen the railway at Stonehaven will begin this week as it works to carefully recover the carriages involved in the tragic accident.
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The track where three men died in a train derailment in Aberdeenshire is expected to remain closed until at least October as investigators work to overcome difficulties accessing the crash site.
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A Network Rail report, ordered by the UK's Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, has been submitted.
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ScotRail has introduced a shuttle service between Aberdeen and Stonehaven to keep customers in the north east moving.
The new shuttle service, which was introduced today (Monday, 31 August), calls at Aberdeen, Portlethen, and Stonehaven, with some services extended to start or terminate at Inverurie or Dyce. A replacement bus service remains in place between Dundee and Stonehaven. (Permalink) Aberdeen Carmont Carron Water Bridge [West Carmont] Derailment Portlethen Shuttle Shuttle service Stonehaven derailment |
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Work is under way to build a temporary road across the Aberdeenshire farmland to allow recovery of the train involved in this month's fatal derailment.
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Transport Secretary Michael Matheson has confirmed that investigations at the scene of the Stonehaven train derailment will come to an end this wek.
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The investigation into the crash which claimed three lives is said to be making 'good progress'.
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An Aberdeenshire community came to a standstill as the funeral cortege of tragic rail conductor Donald Dinnie passed through the town.
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A new road is being built to allow for the recovery of the train carriages destroyed in the tragic derailment near Stonehaven.
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The tragic events, actions of brave responder and the community response to the Stonehaven rail derailment have been marked in the Scottish Parliament.
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Network Rail has asked experts to improve its response to severe weather and management of land near rail lines.
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A union chief has raised concerns over the circumstances leading up to the fatal derailment of a passenger train near Stonehaven.
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Heartbroken wife says train driver husband was not at fault for derailment.
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Investigators say the train which derailed near Stonehaven was travelling close to the maximum speed for the line. [Railscot note - Network Rail's sectional appendix shows that for HSTs the limit is 75mph between 219 miles 39 chains (Carmont Level Crossing) and 224 miles 23 chains (near Stonehaven). For other trains the limit is 65mph.]
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Investigation into a passenger train derailment near Carmont, Aberdeenshire, 12 August 2020.
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An online book of condolences has been set up so that people can pay tribute to those lost in last week's Stonehaven train derailment.
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Railway stations across the UK fell silent at 09:43 - exactly a week after the Aberdeenshire crash was reported.
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North-east residents have banded together to nominate a heroic conductor for a prestigious award.
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One person remains in hospital after the devastating Stonehaven train crash last Wednesday that killed three people.
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Scotland's finance secretary has said it was important for the government to act as 'quickly as possible' in the wake of Wednesday's flooding and tragic train crash.
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Nearly £20,000 has been raised to support the families of those killed in the Stonehaven train derailment.
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Calls have been made for further funding for the north-east's transport links in the wake of Stonehaven's train disaster.
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Railway stations across Scotland will fall silent at 09:43 on Wednesday - exactly a week after the crash was reported.
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The sister of the train driver killed in the Stonehaven crash last week has blamed ScotRail bosses for his death.
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The train that derailed in Aberdeenshire on Wednesday, killing three people, may have been travelling at up to 50mph on a bend when it struck a landslip, it has emerged. However, there is no suggestion that the driver was exceeding the areas speed limit, which was 65mph. Nor is there any suggestion he breached safety rules. Informed sources say he would have been in close contact with Network Rail and ScotRail control room staff. [Railscot note - Network Rail's sectional appendix shows that for HSTs the limit is 75mph between 219 miles 39 chains (Carmont Level Crossing) and 224 miles 23 chains. For other trains the limit is 65mph.]
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The Scottish Environment Agency (Sepa) has taken steps to investigate whether the train crash has impacted the local water supply.
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The UK's chief inspector of rail accidents said the Stonehaven derailment would have been 'much worse had the train been more heavily loaded'.
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The north-east community has been urged to 'shine a light' by joining together in solidarity for the victims of the Stonehaven train crash.
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The RAIB is investigating a fatal accident that occurred near Carmont on the national rail network in Scotland.
At around 09:40 hrs on Wednesday 12 August 2020, all six vehicles of a passenger train derailed after striking a landslip around 1.4 miles (2.25 km) north-east of Carmont, Aberdeenshire. There were nine people on the train at the time of the accident; three train crew (the driver, conductor and a second conductor travelling as a passenger on this train) and six passengers. Tragically, the driver of the train, the trains conductor and one passenger suffered fatal injuries in the accident. The remaining passengers and member of train crew were taken to hospital. (Permalink) Carmont Carron Water Bridge [West Carmont] Derailment Landslide RAIB Stonehaven derailment |
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Three people died and six were injured after the ScotRail train derailed and burst into flames following a night of torrential rain on Wednesday.
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A rail expert has revealed that the structure of the earth will form part of the investigations.
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One rail company has advised its customers not to travel on one of its routes.
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Scientists agree that today's climate is very different to when the railways were built by our Victorian ancestors.
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The ScotRail 6.38am service from Aberdeen to Glasgow Queen Street High Level derailed and slid down an embankment near Stonehaven between 6.53am and 9.40am on Wednesday.
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Nicola Whyte's family have praised the ScotRail worker who called for help following Wednesday's catastrophic derailment in Aberdeenshire, which killed three people.
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Firefighters who responded to the disaster at Stonehaven will be offered mental health support in the aftermath of the tragedy.
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The Duke of Rothesay is visiting the site of the Stonehaven train derailment today.
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Three people including the driver and conductor died after a train derailed in Aberdeenshire.
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Network Rail has been ordered to inspect high-risk trackside slopes across Britain following the Aberdeenshire crash which left three people dead.
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Network Rails chief executive Andrew Haines has vowed to understand the cause and put immediate additional safety measures in place following yesterdays derailment near Stonehaven in which three people died and six were injured.
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A member of the public also alerted emergency services after seeing smoke billowing from the valley.
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