One woman has been killed and several people seriously injured when an express train derailed in the Lake District and fell down an embankment.
One dead in Cumbria train crash | Uk News | News | Telegraph.
As an ex railwayman, I was saddened to hear of the derailment last night and the loss of life caused. When you buy a train ticket, you don’t plan to finish the journey feet first.
Given the nature of the incident, with the train finishing up down the embankment, we can be thankful that the loss was not much much worse.
Already people are predicting track – or more precisely, points – as the cause. Let’s await the outcome of the inquiry, shall we?