Pretty horrific train crash in Scotland, 3 dead

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https://news.sky.com/story/train-derails-in-aberdeenshire-emergency-services-at-the-scene-12047701

Surprised nobodies talking about this, 2020 just keeps on giving the only fortunate turn of events in this crash is that Aberdeen was in lockdown so very people on the train, but from the aerial footage it looks like it came off on the bridge and the rear of the train is the car we see still on the tracks.

Sad that 3 people died thought but why were they running trains after such torrential rain last night ?
 
Jokester said:
They're saying the train stopped after finding it's path blocked by flooding/landslide on a portion of double track. They backed the train up to the previous set of points and then continued again South on the other tracks. From the original video (shows the blocked track under a bridge) and subsequent photos of the crash it doesn't look like it was the same point, but it's hard to say because the derailed train looks to have continued a reasonable distance before coming down the embankment.
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Seems like it came off at an angle on the bridge from the damage to the guard rails and brickwork but the rails look fine on the bridge so presume it's just out of shot to bottom of this image where the track issue was

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The engine still on the tracks is the rear of the train, I'm guessing here that the carriage off the embankment was at the front just behind the engine which is just below it in the trees and the others just piled up, must have had some energy behind it for the rear engine to keep going that far over the bridge with pile up infront
 
Jokester said:
Yup, but spin that round 180degrees and it pretty much looks the same. The only deciding thing is the direction of the river flow in the background (Carron Water goes North), in the BBC video it's flowing the direction of the train travel.
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If you spin it 180 the curve of the stream/river doesn't match
 
Jokester said:
Nah, it was definitely heading North, the shadows in the BBC video would be on the east side of the train at that time of day which indicates it was turned around again.
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I guess I misunderstood what you said about flipping the image 180, what I said about the river was meaning that it could only be travelling North back to Stonehaven because if you flipped the image, the curve of the river would never be able to align with the river on maps
 
Looks like there was a landslide just before the bridge

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It's interesting how the rear engine has managed to stay on tracks considering all others have come off and it would have gone over the same bit of landslide as everything else. I wonder how fast it was going and why the driver didn't spot it on his way South unless it just sadly happened seconds before he reached it on his way back North
 
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Sounds like it was an unavoidable tragedy then, especially if it's found the landslide happened moments before the driver reached it or he couldn't see it until it was too late due to the bend of the track

There's some new info detailing most of what we already know but also which carriage is which, the one that is crushed is actually the 1st and the 3rd is the one down the embankment near the engine

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/passenger-train-derailment-near-carmont-aberdeenshire
 
Sounds like it was an unavoidable tragedy then, especially if it's found the landslide happened moments before the driver reached it or he couldn't see it until it was too late due to the bend of the track

There's some new info detailing most of what we already know but also which carriage is which, the one that is crushed is actually the 1st and the 3rd is the one down the embankment near the engine

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/passenger-train-derailment-near-carmont-aberdeenshire
 
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