Ben Glasgow
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Is 30 minutes not the time it took passengers to leave the train (by media reports) ?
Presumably as the next station is a few minutes away, the signaller would have been notified by the driver at this point, in addition to whatever errors the signalling system was showing.
If the driver was at the next station was it not a lack of someone suitable to take charge of the stranded train and release the doors that was the issue ? Presumably services in the opposite direction passed in that time.
It sounds like a very regrettable PR incident for Scotrail rather than one in which passengers were placed in real danger. RAIB will doubtless have something preliminary out relatively quickly.
Do RAIB publicise their findings? I’m not familiar with how information is handled surrounding incidents like this.