Probe into two train derailments to ‘look at all possible causes and factors’

Rail workers and police officers investigate at the scene where a Greater Anglia train derailed, south of Wickford railway station in Essex (Lucy North/PA) - (PA Wire)

Investigations into two train derailments in two days “will look at all possible causes and factors”, a Network Rail boss said, adding the hot weather had “presented exceptional challenges to the railway”.

It comes after a second train derailed less than 24 hours after two passengers were seriously injured when a Southern Rail service came off the tracks in East Sussex.