When do we expect the findings from RAIB as to the main reason of the derailment?
If the points were the cause, weren't they replaced in the WCML upgrade?
If not, have Freightliner supplied a locomotive with suspect wheelsets?
Did aliens come down and knock it off the tracks...? Surely you've over looked the most likely cause?
No need for the RAIB, as the Evening Standard already knows the answer! Not sure I believe anything in the article, however. How much does a Class 90 weigh?
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/stand...ight-train-derails-on-west-coast-main-line.do
Interesting that a "newspaper" can know the outcome of an investigation almost before the investigation has begun.
I very much dislike most non-specialist journalists, but I don't find it hard to believe that they could have found out the likely preliminary cause. The driver could have told whoever got there first (probably NR MOM) what had happened, everyone working on the scene will have subsequently have been told that/heard that and the station staff would have probably have been told too. All it takes is for one of those many people to say 15 or so words to someone posing as either a passenger or a journalist and the paper have got their story.
As someone else said, it may also have been put down on an NR log, in which case many more people would have access to that information. If it's anything like where I work though, for an incident like this, access to the log might be restricted to senior people and those who need to know. Still, a good number of people could know what has gone on, probably even people on this very site (I don't though :P ).
EDIT: Just gotta say, I hope the paper is wrong though, as I feel tremendously bad for the driver if they're right.
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