Train crash in UK (virigin trains) - happened tonight.

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A passenger is reported to have died and dozens have been injured after a train derailed and slid down an embankment in Cumbria.

Ambulance crews said three were in a critical condition in hospital.

Nine carriages were left on their side after the crash at Grayrigg near Kendal, with passengers saying some were left "stuck up in the air".

The Virgin train, the 1715 from London Euston due to arrive at Glasgow Central at 2154 GMT, crashed at 2015 GMT.

Neither Virgin nor Network Rail have yet been able to say what might have caused the crash.

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6391633.stm

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I was on a GNER train this evening coming from London... thank god i was only going to Darlington..phew!

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Jeez - Kendal is a pretty remote and exposed place (especially this time of year). Kendal is known for Kendal mint cake, a sugar bar intended as an energy booster / survival food for mountain climbers.

I wonder if it was broken tracks again. Last time there was a major crash like this (well a series of them) it was due to track maintenance being neglected by private contractors. Government ended up renationalising it, because Jarvis (and others) had done such a piss poor job. Rail network was down for weeks all over the country while they tried to fit 5 years of maintenance into the space of a month.

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Wow how tragic

I used to take the train from London to Durham all the time tho most of the time was on GNER and not Virgin.

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Wow how tragic

I used to take the train from London to Durham all the time tho most of the time was on GNER and not Virgin.

Hope you don't mind me saying Lisa, that's a really cute pic of you in your avatar...just don't let it go to your head.

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Wow how tragic

I used to take the train from London to Durham all the time tho most of the time was on GNER and not Virgin.

Hope you don't mind me saying Lisa, that's a really cute pic of you in your avatar...just don't let it go to your head.

suckup

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Hope you don't mind me saying Lisa, that's a really cute pic of you in your avatar...just don't let it go to your head.

Someone should sticky this topic as proof that Steven can be nice to a Republican

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Hope you don't mind me saying Lisa, that's a really cute pic of you in your avatar...just don't let it go to your head.

Someone should sticky this topic as proof that Steven can be nice to a Republican

he was high on mozzarella at the time

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Hope you don't mind me saying Lisa, that's a really cute pic of you in your avatar...just don't let it go to your head.

Someone should sticky this topic as proof that Steven can be nice to a Republican

he was high on mozzarella at the time

Oh my flippin' hell, I've just popped a rib... :lol:

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Hope you don't mind me saying Lisa, that's a really cute pic of you in your avatar...just don't let it go to your head.

Someone should sticky this topic as proof that Steven can be nice to a Republican

he was high on mozzarella at the time

I'm gonna by high for the next several daze.