Derailment yesterday evening 11.5.2024 at Corfe Castle

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Derailment yesterday evening 11.5.2024 at Corfe Castle

« on: May 12, 2024, 17:07:49 »

Various reports on the news feeds of a class 50 on the rear of a train at Corfe Castle derailing yesterday evening - clearly a very serious immediate concern, but happy to report that a two-train service with trains passing at Haman's Cross has been running today, so it would appear that there is sufficient known about what went wrong for running trains today to be considered safe

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An investigation has been launched after a restored diesel locomotive partially derailed from a heritage railway line during a festival in Dorset.

Evening diesel gala and beer festival train services on the Swanage Railway heritage line were suspended on Saturday after the diesel locomotive partially derailed at Corfe Castle station.

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