Freight Derailment at Whitacre Junction Coleshill and Nuneaton (12/09)

[Saint66]

A freight train has derailed at Whitacre junction between Coleshill and Nuneaton.

https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/n...n-derail-coventry-nuneaton-coleshill-15140066

British Transport Police have confirmed the time and location of the incident. A spokesperson said: “At 3.05pm today, officers from British Transport Police were called to the railway close to Whitacre Junction in the West Midlands following a report of a train derailment.”

 

[SPADTrap]

It's pretty well off the road!

 

[SPADTrap]

A photo

 

[E_Reeves]

Reported as 66727 in the incident

 

[GB]

Reported as 66727 in the incident

Train 4L22 Hams Hall-Felixstowe.

 

[westcoaster]

Looks to have gone two different ways.

 

[HLE]

And it’s also causing the 153 on the Nuneaton route to almost burst at the seams. Seems passengers for Birmingham and stations east of Nuneaton are being told to change at Coventry.

18 people wedged into No.1 end on a 153 vestibule may be the new record.

Let’s hope those in NR/XC use their brains and tell XC passengers to get on the replacement coaches rather than send them via Coventry sharpish.

 

[saxsux]

Cor blimey, that's a chunky derailment.

 

[HLE]

It's pretty well off the road!

Says low speed derailment. Think it’s a 15 PSR over that junction heading to Nuneaton but could be wrong.

Either way that’s stopped the job on that route for a good few days at least.

 

[Ianno87]

Says low speed derailment. Think it’s a 15 PSR over that junction heading to Nuneaton but could be wrong.

Either way that’s stopped the job on that route for a good few days at least.

Looks like it was coming off the Hams Hall departure road - the speed on exit is indeed something like 15.

(The Nuneaton route at Whitacre Jn itself is about 30 or so)

 

[XCTurbostar]

CrossCountry are saying that it will be open tomorrow.. don’t think so.

 

[HLE]

Looks like the points have moved under the train.

 

[Highlandspring]

Looks like the points have moved under the train.

Better email the RAIB the results of your initial examination, save them the bother of attending site...

 

[Elecman]

At least the PWay gang are local !

 

[MarkyT]

Looks like the points have moved under the train.

Or some axle was already off the road on departure and the train split through those facing points, or there was something hanging from a wagon that got caught in the point mechanism and pulled a switch across. Lets wait for further official announcements before further speculation. That the fully interlocked motor operated points somehow spontaneously moved is possibly the most unlikely explanation of all.

 

[voyagerdude220]

CrossCountry are saying that it will be open tomorrow.. don’t think so.

That's strange, as internally, they've stated that they expect the route to be closed all day tomorrow (at least).

 

[Class 170101]

That will screw Cross Country getting units back to Tyesley unless Drivers know the road between Trent Jns and Leicester via Loughborough.

 

[DarloRich]

gee whiz - that has gone well!

 

[londonmidland]

That will screw Cross Country getting units back to Tyesley unless Drivers know the road between Trent Jns and Leicester via Loughborough.

I think quite a few crew’s sign the diversionary route via Castle Donnington?

 

[TheEdge]

Yea, that's off.

 

[PHILIPE]

So the BTP attended. Something suspicious ?

 

[SPADTrap]

So the BTP attended. Something suspicious ?

The wagons involved were dangerous goods. Likely reason for an emergency services presence.

 

[Skymonster]

I think quite a few crew’s sign the diversionary route via Castle Donnington?

I'm sure most of them do sign that bit - after all, pretty much everything Cross Country to/from/through the East Midlands was going between Stenson and Sheet Stores during the first part of the Derby blockade. The question 170101 was raising was: how many sign Liecester to Trent / Sheet Stores, which XC don't use much...

 

[Stampy]

XC should be OK as they can "turn left" at Water Orton to go via Tamworth.. (Can't think of the junction)

It's the trains that do Birmingham to Leicester/Peterborough that are screwed

 

[Skymonster]

XC should be OK as they can "turn left" at Water Orton to go via Tamworth.. (Can't think of the junction)

It's the trains that do Birmingham to Leicester/Peterborough that are screwed

Err, Birmingham to Leicester/Peterborough IS Cross Country!

 

[GB]

CrossCountry are saying that it will be open tomorrow.. don’t think so.

Possession on until at least Saturday.

 

[trubla]

Birmingham to Stanstead and reverse are going via Tamworth already ,but rather late running

 

[edwin_m]

Or some axle was already off the road on departure and the train split through those facing points, or there was something hanging from a wagon that got caught in the point mechanism and pulled a switch across. Lets wait for further official announcements before further speculation. That the fully interlocked motor operated points somehow spontaneously moved is possibly the most unlikely explanation of all.

Wheel unloading due to suspension fault, wheel unloading due to uneven container loading, track twist...

 

[Aictos]

Possession on until at least Saturday.

I take your word on it but bearing in mind I've no experience of dealing with derailments I would have thought it would be least a week if not two weeks of the line being blocked there.

The reason I say a minimum of a week is due to two other derailments concerning freight trains took longer then 4 days as stated on Wikipedia:

1. On 22 June 2007, a goods train derailed at Hawk Bridge which carries the Ipswich line over the River Great Ouse a mile south of Ely. Photographs showed derailed wagons on their side, only prevented from plunging off the embankment by subsidiary structures and their attachment to the rest of the train. As a consequence of the derailment the bridge had to be rebuilt and there were no train services between Ely and Bury St. Edmunds until the works were completed on 21 December 2007.

2. On 14 August 2017, a freight train was derailed at Ely West Junction, near Queen Adelaide. The line between Ely and Peterborough was closed until 21 August.

That and ensuring that the track is safe to be used etc....

 

[Class 170101]

Well it looks like a few trains have been heading north out of Leicester and going round via Castle Donnington and losing around 25 minutes in the process if Real Time Trains is to be believed.