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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Steven Morris, Gwyn Topham and Jamie Grierson

Train involved in fatal crash in Wales ‘entered wheel slide when braking’

The scene of the train collision between Talerddig and Llanbrynmair.
The crash happened in a wooded area on the Cambrian line in Powys. Photograph: Ian Cooper/PA

Rail investigators believe a train involved in the first head-on collision in the UK this century, which killed a passenger in his 60s, “may have entered into a wheel slide when braking”.

A further 15 people were treated in hospital after the collision between the Welsh villages of Talerddig and Llanbrynmair on the largely single-track Cambrian line.

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