| Re: On this day: up sleeper derailment across Paddington station throat 23/11/83 Posted by stuving at 19:51, 23rd November 2025 |     |
This was before the RAIB. There were public hearings conducted by a DoT inspector, Major Charles Rose. This heard that the train did not brake - the driver said he did apply a bake, but no fault was found to explain this. The report (of 16/2/84) concluded that the driver failed to apply the brakes, for unexplained reasons (possibly not known to the driver himself).
| Re: On this day: up sleeper derailment across Paddington station throat 23/11/83 Posted by bobm at 15:00, 23rd November 2025 | |
| Re: On this day: up sleeper derailment across Paddington station throat 23/11/83 Posted by ChrisB at 14:44, 23rd November 2025 | |
Anyone find the RAIB report on this? I can't seem to locate it.
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| On this day: up sleeper derailment across Paddington station throat 23/11/83 Posted by Mark A at 13:46, 23rd November 2025 | |
TV footage from what was not a good day at Paddington, but one that could have been much worse.
Mark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mOzSqqkrcM
