THE GUARDIAN: Crash in Powys occurred on single-track section near passing loop, with one train apparently unable to stop
A rail passenger died and 15 people were being treated for injuries in hospital after two trains collided on a rural line in mid-Wales on Monday evening.
Witnesses described how people were thrown to the floor of a train and pictures of the scene showed part of one of the carriages crumpled in the impact.
Investigators were at the scene near the village of Llanbrynmair in Powys on Tuesday morning to try to establish why the trains had collided on the line, a single-track section.
The incident took place close to a passing loop on the largely single-track Cambrian line, where one train should stop and the other proceeds at low speed on a small loop of track. It appears that the train that should have stopped was unable to do so, but the collision was slow enough that neither train derailed. » | Steven Morris, Gwyn Topham, Jamie Grierson and Nadeem Badshah | Tuesday, October 22, 2024
