Reading up on that, it was brake failure and the driver not applying another set of emergency brakes. Operators did not intend for them to crash head on. This crash is a bit different in that two trains appeared to crash on the same line (out of 6 or more)
Even more precisely I’m struggling to remember the last time the accident was two trains colliding.
RAIB just delivered the report on a fatal collision in Powys in 2024.
Reading up on that, it was brake failure and the driver not applying another set of emergency brakes. Operators did not intend for them to crash head on. This crash is a bit different in that two trains appeared to crash on the same line (out of 6 or more)