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Another runaway train

BBC NEWS | Scotland | Rail workers flee runaway train

Railway workers had to run for their lives when a runaway train hurtled down the line towards them.

The locomotive travelled for two miles after setting off from Edinburgh's Waverley Station before coming to a halt, it has been revealed.

The driverless engine only ended its unscheduled journey when it was switched into a siding in the east of the city.

Sounds like a repeat of the accident a few years back at the very same location when a driverless class 37 locomotive ran away down the grade at Edinburgh Waverley after being uncoupled from it's train. That time it ran head-on into an approaching passenger train, causing quite a few injuries as well as writing-off the poor class 37

Typically the BBC have got the photo wrong - it shows a class 66 diesel rather than the class 90 electric that actually ran away.

Posted by TimHall at November 20, 2002 04:38 PM | TrackBack
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