Upton Nervet Crash Update

Sadly, the train driver was among the dead. First Great Western have made the following statement:

Our thoughts are with our customers and staff who were involved in tonight's incident at Ufton Nervet in Berkshire.

We have been informed by the emergency services that our driver died in the incident and there were further fatalities and customers who have been injured.

We would like to express condolences to the families of those customers and our driver. The family of the driver have been informed and we would ask that media respect their privacy at this difficult time.

The service involved was the 1735 from London Paddington to Plymouth which collided with a vehicle on a level crossing between Reading and Newbury. Four of our staff were on-board � two Train Managers, a Customer Host who was serving in the buffet and the driver.

We are working with the emergency services to do all that we can to help deal with this situation and assist our customers and staff.

We will be co-operating fully with the investigation