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Network Rail has confirmed guilty of negligence in Aberdeen court today,

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-66731023

eople in a train derailment near Stonehaven in 2020.

The company pleaded guilty to criminal charges at the High Court in Aberdeen.

Three people died and six were injured when a train struck a landslide at Carmont after heavy rain.

Network Rail admitted failing to impose a speed restriction, warn the driver that part of the track was unsafe, or ask him to reduce his speed.

It also admitted a number of failures over the maintenance and inspection of drainage in the area, and in adverse and extreme weather planning.

Driver Brett McCullough, 45, conductor Donald Dinnie, 58, and passenger Christopher Stuchbury, 62, died when the train derailed on 12 August 2020.

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1 hour ago, MEADOWXI said:

Network Rail has confirmed guilty of negligence in Aberdeen court today,

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-66731023

eople in a train derailment near Stonehaven in 2020.

The company pleaded guilty to criminal charges at the High Court in Aberdeen.

Three people died and six were injured when a train struck a landslide at Carmont after heavy rain.

Network Rail admitted failing to impose a speed restriction, warn the driver that part of the track was unsafe, or ask him to reduce his speed.

It also admitted a number of failures over the maintenance and inspection of drainage in the area, and in adverse and extreme weather planning.

Driver Brett McCullough, 45, conductor Donald Dinnie, 58, and passenger Christopher Stuchbury, 62, died when the train derailed on 12 August 2020.

Astonishing levels of negligence 

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