Landslips will hit rail lines again, official report into Stonehaven disaster warns

A Network Rail report into the Stonehaven train crash disaster found that landslips caused by heavy rainfall will continue to affect Britain’s railway lines because it is not ‘economically viable’ to strengthen them. Network Rail’s interim report confirmed that the ScotRail train ‘struck a pile of washed-out stone covering the line’ causing it to derail in the … Read more