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Title: Staff Fatality at Tyseley Depot 15/12/2019 Post by: SandTEngineer on December 16, 2019, 10:57:13 Hadn't seen this very sad incident mentioned:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-50801443 Quote Train driver dies in 'serious incident' at Tyseley Depot 15 December 2019 The death at the Tyseley Depot is being investigated, West Midlands Trains said A train driver died in a "serious incident" at a Birmingham depot on Saturday. The man was injured at about 20:30 GMT at Tyseley Depot, with emergency services attending. The death will be investigated by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch, a West Midlands Trains spokesman said. He added that no members of the public were involved and there was no follow-on disruption to passengers. In a statement, West Midlands Trains said: "There was a serious incident at Tyseley Depot that sadly resulted in a fatality." Apparently occurred during a shunting movement. Title: Re: Staff Fatality at Tyseley Depot 15/12/2019 Post by: SandTEngineer on December 20, 2019, 10:56:53 Update from RAIB here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/fatal-accident-at-tyseley-depot?utm_source=8c31b078-d116-4b52-942d-a577d8ff17b9&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&utm_content=immediate
Title: Re: Staff Fatality at Tyseley Depot 15/12/2019 Post by: Phantom on December 20, 2019, 14:00:32 Hadn't seen this very sad incident mentioned: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-50801443 Quote Train driver dies in 'serious incident' at Tyseley Depot 15 December 2019 The death at the Tyseley Depot is being investigated, West Midlands Trains said A train driver died in a "serious incident" at a Birmingham depot on Saturday. The man was injured at about 20:30 GMT at Tyseley Depot, with emergency services attending. The death will be investigated by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch, a West Midlands Trains spokesman said. He added that no members of the public were involved and there was no follow-on disruption to passengers. In a statement, West Midlands Trains said: "There was a serious incident at Tyseley Depot that sadly resulted in a fatality." Apparently occurred during a shunting movement. Very sad to read I didn't see anything in any news either, the first I knew was the same email this morning RIP This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |