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Nick Forbes

Signaller ‘compliant’ with rules in instructions to train crash driver, FAI told

Three people died when the train left the tracks near Stonehaven in August 2020 (RAIB/PA) - (PA Archive)

A signaller who instructed a train driver to go at normal speed just minutes before it crashed into a landslip was “entirely compliant” with the rules in place at the time, an inquiry has heard.

Train 1T08 derailed at Carmont near Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire on August 12, 2020 after it hit a pile of gravel washed on to the track by heavy rain, before striking a bridge parapet.

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