Train Derailment in Leicester - Information Required

[Geezah1984]

Hi All,

I am sorry if this is the wrong place to post this, but a work colegue said that a train derailed in Leicester (centre of map of location), and the wagons hit the bridge. I am unable to find this anywhere online, so I wanted to ask you guys.

He lived at his house near the park and ride entrance between 1997 (P&R opened) and 2006, so it happend somewhere between those dates.

Map:
http://goo.gl/maps/GomOX


Any help is greatly appreciated.

Andrew

 

[ExRes]

Possibly the one you're referring to

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rc...uHgegE&usg=AFQjCNGiTQjM717UPUJcEyMWuWLBroBZmA

or maybe, but not likely, this one

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rc...uHgegE&usg=AFQjCNElTDbuObl9OTJLJ_ua8f9lU9hIJA

 

[steevp]

There is nothing on the excellent Railways Archive site (http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/index.php), but they may not have got to this yet.

 

[ExRes]

Definitely not this one

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rc...XkgJgP&usg=AFQjCNHeOD_JUfKyo-ScPcWZEopjKZIETw

 

[38Cto15E]

The map is of the Knighton-Kirby Muxloe section of the Leicester to Burton line, I cannot remember an incident, but that doesn't mean that there wasn't one.

There was one sad incident a couple of hundred yards away in steam days, a fireman climbed into the back of the tender to drag some coal forward, he wasn't paying attention to the location of the train and he sadly collided with an overbridge.

 

[Coops54]

I remember it very well! I was the on-call Track Engineer for RailTrack and it was a Freight train travelling towards Leicester at Braunstone. One of the wagons hit the bridge so hard its' buffer was embedded in the brickwork. There was also another one about a mile further towards Leicester a year later, but that did not strike a bridge. I was with RailTrack up to August 1998, so it happened before then.