Derailment at Charlton 3/6/15

[MarkyT]

There was a passenger EMU (last year?) where one of the later cars derailed and rerailed on points leaving Liverpool Street. The driver was unaware until the guard informed them of some rough riding but didn't spot anything amiss when they eximined the train from a platform.
IIRC it was only when the people responsible for maintaining points took a second look (after their first failed to fix the signalling indication?) that it was realised what had happened.

There was a Birmingham - Southampton Freightliner at Reading that came off and re-railed itself in 2012. It left a trail of damaged track circuit cables across the lines to the west of the station, causing severe disruption, yet the driver remained completely unaware and wasn't stopped to examine his train until Worting Junction, west of Basingstoke, after S&T had been out to examine the failed track circuit and concluded there must have been a derailment. The offending wheels jumped back on at the next trailing point following the derailment site so the damage was confined to Reading West Junction. Bad loading of a container and a 'twist fault' in the track geometry at the junction was to blame.

https://www.gov.uk/raib-reports/freight-train-derailment-at-reading-west-junction

 

[GB]

There was a passenger EMU (last year?) where one of the later cars derailed and rerailed on points leaving Liverpool Street. The driver was unaware until the guard informed them of some rough riding but didn't spot anything amiss when they eximined the train from a platform.
IIRC it was only when the people responsible for maintaining points took a second look (after their first failed to fix the signalling indication?) that it was realised what had happened.

https://www.gov.uk/raib-reports/derailment-at-liverpool-street-station-london

SNIP> The train comprised nine coaches pushed by a locomotive, and had just left platform 13. A total of 17 wheelsets derailed on a tight curve and, as the train proceeded, all the wheelsets were guided back onto the correct rail within a distance of 40 metres.

The driver was unaware of any problem until the senior conductor told him that passengers had reported a rough ride and the signaller advised him that the signalling system had identified a problem at a set of points used by the train when leaving Liverpool Street. The driver then stopped and examined his train at Shenfield, but saw nothing unusual. No one appreciated that there had been a derailment until the train was examined by a specialist inspector when it arrived at Norwich and, at about the same time, a signal maintenance team found track damage close to Liverpool Street station.

 

[455driver]

There was a Birmingham - Southampton Freightliner at Reading that came off and re-railed itself in 2012. It left a trail of damaged track circuit cables across the lines to the west of the station, causing severe disruption, yet the driver remained completely unaware and wasn't stopped to examine his train until Worting Junction, west of Basingstoke, after S&T had been out to examine the failed track circuit and concluded there must have been a derailment. The offending wheels jumped back on at the next trailing point following the derailment site so the damage was confined to Reading West Junction. Bad loading of a container and a 'twist fault' in the track geometry at the junction was to blame.

https://www.gov.uk/raib-reports/freight-train-derailment-at-reading-west-junction

And S&T were not allowed to fix anything until the RAIB had been and had a look at everything, unfortunately after waiting 3 (I think it was) hours RAIB informed the that they would not be attending. S&T were less than impressed.