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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent

Wrongly built drainage system led to Stonehaven train crash, investigators find

The train crash site at Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire
Three people were killed at Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire on 12 August 2020 when a drain washed debris on to the track. Photograph: RAIB/PA

A drainage system wrongly built by Carillion and unchecked by Network Rail led to the Stonehaven train crash, investigators have found, when a Scotrail train hit debris washed by rain on to the railway track.

Three people died on 12 August 2020 in the worst fatal event on the UK railways in 18 years, when the passenger train from Aberdeen to Glasgow derailed at Carmont, near Stonehaven, after heavy rainfall.

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