Investigators identify failings by Network Rail and collapsed outsourcing giant Carillion
The train smashed into the side of a bridge, causing its power car and one of its four carriages to fall down an embankment.RAIB deputy chief inspector, Andrew Hall, told the PA news agency: “The sad irony of the accident is that a fairly modern drain that was put there to reduce the risk of a landslip on a cutting slope was in fact the thing that brought the risk to the railway.”
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