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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Neil Lancefield

HISTORICAL FACTS: Engineers move derailed avanti west coast train - The Untold Story

A train which derailed when it struck a landslide at 80mph has been removed from the scene.

Network Rail said engineers worked through the night to move the 11-carriage Avanti West Coast train, which came off the tracks on the West Coast Main Line (WCML) near Shap, Cumbria, at about 6.15am on Monday.

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