Network Rail fined £3.75m for health and safety breaches that led to death of track workers

Gareth Delbridge and Michael ‘Spike’ Lewis died after being hit by the Swansea to London train near Margam, Port Talbot, on 3 July 2019. Photograph: Handout

Network Rail has been fined £3.75m for health and safety breaches that led to the death of two track workers in south Wales in 2019.

The workers were killed when struck by a train after starting an “unnecessary maintenance activity” on the south Wales mainline while it was still being used, with no lookouts posted to warn them.