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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Anna Loren and Jane Dalton

FOUND: Track defect found in area where lewes train derailed - What They Never Told You

A defect in a railway track has been discovered where a train derailed last week near Lewes, East Sussex, investigators say – and it had been there before the accident.

Thirty people were injured, two seriously, when the rear three carriages left the tracks and tipped over onto the embankment.

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