Minor derailment at Eastleigh, 30/04/2025

[Stephen1001]

Passing Eastleigh this morning, it looked like the leading two wagons of a freight train in the yard north of the station had come slightly off the rails.

Returning in the evening, the wagons that remained on the rails behind the derailed pair had been removed, but the leading wagon was still there behind what looked like three locomotives (two class 66s and a 69).

The wagon was upright and didn't look visibly damaged, but certainly not on the tracks as it should have been.

I thought I saw only one derailed wagon on the second occasion, so perhaps the second was easier to re-rail.

Came here looking for a thread and couldn't find one. I did find this video from Dave's Rails & Roads which shows a little of the scene as it was in the morning:

GBRf’s 69003 The Railway Observer along with DB Cargos 66097 and Colas Railfreight 66846 at the head of a Hoo Junction Engineers train with the first 2 wagons off the tracks. Recovery under way aided by one of RSS’s resident Shunters 08683

Does anyone know more?

 

[Adrian Barr]

There was a bit of information saying that one of the two derailed wagons had been pulled back onto the rails using a loco, and the other rerailed later by the BRUFF team (there's a contract for nationwide coverage of on-call staff who are available to attend these kind of minor derailments).

A set of points needed to be clipped, but trains were able to arrive and depart again via that end of the yard (country end) by 01:30 the following morning. It doesn't look like it caused much disruption, except to shunting movements in the yard presumably.

Details of exactly what happened will be restricted to those involved in investigating the incident, and would not be appropriate to discuss on a public forum (the video itself gives more information than anything I know about it).

The investigation would most likely be done by the freight operator, with Network Rail involvement if it took place on their infrastructure (with RAIB being notified of more serious incidents that meet certain criteria).

Derailments purely within yards don't necessarily result in any information being sent out by Network Rail, but any incidents that have potential to disrupt freight services are notified to freight operators, with the information mainly focused on the potential impact (and timescales for recovery) rather than the incident itself.

 

[Stephen1001]

There was a bit of information saying that one of the two derailed wagons had been pulled back onto the rails using a loco, and the other rerailed later by the BRUFF team (there's a contract for nationwide coverage of on-call staff who are available to attend these kind of minor derailments).

A set of points needed to be clipped, but trains were able to arrive and depart again via that end of the yard (country end) by 01:30 the following morning. It doesn't look like it caused much disruption, except to shunting movements in the yard presumably.

Details of exactly what happened will be restricted to those involved in investigating the incident, and would not be appropriate to discuss on a public forum (the video itself gives more information than anything I know about it).

The investigation would most likely be done by the freight operator, with Network Rail involvement if it took place on their infrastructure (with RAIB being notified of more serious incidents that meet certain criteria).

Derailments purely within yards don't necessarily result in any information being sent out by Network Rail, but any incidents that have potential to disrupt freight services are notified to freight operators, with the information mainly focused on the potential impact (and timescales for recovery) rather than the incident itself.

Thanks for this useful and interesting update. I completely understand that much of what occurred won't be made public, but given the unusually high visibility for a yard derailment thought it was worth asking!