All the way The staff will remember the victims of the Stonehaven railway accident with “great sorrow” one year after the tragedy.
Train Drivers Union Aslev Say Scottish Railway The train derailment that killed 3 people on August 12 last year will be reported by workers on Thursday.
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.
The accident cast a long shadow on the entire railway industry, not only in Scotland, but throughout the United Kingdom.
Network Rail’s interim report on the accident found that the train “ran into a pile of washed-out rocks and gravel before derailing.”
Kevin Lindsay, Aslef’s Scottish organizer, said: “We remember this event with great grief, and it is still fresh and original in all of us.
“The accident cast a long shadow on the entire railway industry, not only in Scotland, but throughout the United Kingdom.
“We will never forget Brett and Donald at work, and Christopher in business, but we will redouble our efforts to ensure that the railway is safe for passengers and staff so that such accidents will not happen again. happened.”
Aslef General Secretary Mick Whelan added: “We will also consider what measures need to be taken to ensure that the infrastructure of British Railways is not neglected so that such accidents do not happen again.”
Manuel Cortez, secretary general of the Transportation Salaried Employees Association, said, “Our railway family has felt these deaths, and we are with their families today.”
He said: “The sad fact is that unless we take action now, we will see more of these tragedies caused by climate change.
“As we have seen this week, with climate change, extreme rainfall events and their consequences are becoming more common-unless we take urgent action now to stop its progress, these changes will become permanent and impossible. Reversal.”
In April, accident investigators focused on the “lack of an effective drainage inspection system”.
The Railway Accident Investigation Office stated that there was “no evidence” that the drainage system involved in the fatal accident had been fully inspected since its construction in 2012.
According to the report, 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.
The power car of the train and one of the four carriages fell off the embankment.
