One year after the disaster, we will observe a minute of silence for the victims of the Stonehaven railway accident.
Train Drivers Union Aslev Said that the ScotRail derailment that claimed 3 lives on August 12 last year will be silently reported by workers on Thursday morning.
The 45-year-old driver Brett McCullough, the 58-year-old conductor Donald Dinnie, and the 62-year-old passenger Christopher Stuchbury died at 6:38 in the morning. Hong Kong guy The train heading to Glasgow’s Queen Street landslides on the track near Stonehaven. Aberdeenshire After the heavy rain.
Aslef said that six other people were injured on the train. The train broke off the track at 9:37 am. If it weren’t for the pandemic, the train would have been busier.
Network Rail’s interim report on the accident found that the train “ran into a pile of washed-out rocks and gravel before derailing.”
This Railway Accident Investigation Division It has been said that between 5.50 am and 9 am on the day of the crash, “almost continuous heavy rain” in the area caused “serious flooding.”
The rainfall during this period was 51.5 mm, which was almost 75% of the average rainfall in August in Aberdeenshire.
But when the 9.37 derailed, the weather was “dry and sunny.”
At the time of the accident, the service from Aberdeen to Glasgow was returning to Aberdeen at 6.38 am because the railway was blocked.
It was traveling at approximately 73 mph—below the maximum allowable speed of 75 mph for that section of track—and when it hit debris and derailed to the left, it destroyed a bridge barrier.
