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across both tracks, and the cabin lights went off. The injured driver managed to radio Crewe Control Room. The conductor escorted passengers into the rear carriage, which was across the northbound track. He then returned to see the driver who was still in the cab. Either the conductor or the driver turned off the white headlamps and turned on the red taillamps to warn oncoming trains of the obstruction. The driver has no recollection of either placing the radio call on the
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After colliding with the northbound train, the guard of the second train attempted to contact the signaller using the emergency button on the rear cab's NRN radio, but was unsuccessful. He then placed calls using the NRN's telephone functionality making contact with the signaller at Settle Junction
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around 5 miles (8.0 km) to the north. About a quarter of a mile before the derailed train, the driver saw its red lights approximately .25 miles (0.40 km) and made an emergency brake application, but there was no chance of stopping before impacting the derailment. At 18:55, the southbound
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The train hit a landslide at Ash Bank, at 261 miles, 31 chains and 1.75 miles (2.82 km) north of Ais Gill Summit. The train was traveling at 60 miles per hour (97 km/h) and did not observe the landslide before the crash and did not attempt to stop as a result. The first carriage derailed
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On 15 January 1999, a similar incident occurred around 10 miles (16 km) from the site of the 1995 accident, at Crosby Garrett Tunnel, north of Kirkby Stephen. A landslide caused a Carlisle-bound Class 156 Sprinter to derail. The driver of the train promptly departed after the derailment, to
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and displaying a red flag one mile from the obstruction. The time between the initial derailment and the subsequent collision was about six or seven minutes which would have allowed a much greater warning time to be given to the second train, and might have prevented the collision or at least
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The inquiry noted that a transcript of the call made from the driver of the train that hit the landslide. In his communications with the control centre at Crewe, the call ended with a control saying "we will take care of all of that, driver." This may have given the false impression that the
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Weather leading into the last week of January 1995 was snow and frost, with the weather on the week of the accident consisting of snowfall, a brief thaw and a snow storm that turned into a rainstorm. In the 24 hours before the derailment, 2.5 inches (64 mm) of rain fell in the area. The
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southbound service that hit the first stricken service, would be warned appropriately and so the guard set about tending to the needs of his passengers. The chairman of the inquiry, Mr E N Clarke, said that protecting the train should have been the priority of the guard.
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Control Rooms and inefficient use of the National Radio Network. A "group call" to all trains in the vicinity of the incident could have been made by the Control Room and might have alerted the second train to the obstruction in time to prevent the collision.
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Earlier on the day of the accident, a railway worker conducted an inspection of the line in the area, but observed no abnormal conditions at the area where the landslide would happen. The area also had no known prior landslides.
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between the two carriages and a door that'd been opened post collision. After the collision a passenger climbed down from the train, and discovered the guard seriously injured, laying against a train wheel, outside the train.
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He had made it only 300 yards (270 m) when he heard an approaching train and managed to place a single detonator, and waved a red signal lamp. The driver of the approaching train, a loaded 32 wagon coal train, led by a
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train struck the derailed northbound train at about 35 miles per hour (56 km/h). The guard's exact position at the time of the collision is not known, but it's generally accepted he was in the front carriage, near the
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The location was extremely difficult for emergency services to reach, and a rescue train was sent from Carlisle that arrived at 21:45, departed at 22:30 with the passengers and staff that needed evacuated.
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excessive rainfall, on top of snow on the ground increased landslide risk and rendered the Stainforth Tunnel impassable late on January 31, closing the line from Ribblehead to Settle.
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The collision killed the conductor of the first train, and 30 people on the trains suffered some kind of injury. 26 treated at hospital in Carlisle, with 5 serious injuries.
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managed to nearly stop, colliding with the derailed Super-Sprinter at just under 3 miles per hour (4.8 km/h). There were no fatalities, and injuries were not serious.
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with the emergency button or changing the head/tail lamps. The other person who could have done this, the guard, was killed in the second collision a few minutes later.
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The official inquiry concluded that the conductor of 2H88 failed in his paramount duty to protect his train in the event of an incident by laying down
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Meanwhile, another Super-Sprinter train forming the 1745 Carlisle to Leeds service (headcode 2H92) had set off from
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was informed of the accident by the conductor of the 2H92 service and the emergency services were then alerted.
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Blea Moor to Carlisle, derailed blocking both roads. Can you stop the job between Kirkby Stephen and Blea Moor.
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line, and was subsequently ran into by a similar train travelling in the opposite direction. The
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Hall, Stanley (1999). "Chapter 11 - More Hidden Dangers - Disaster in the Northern Pennines".
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signalbox, before checking the location of his train and reporting that in a second call. The
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Further recommendations were made concerning the inadequate communications between
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indicates railway accidents and incidents resulting in at least 20 fatalities
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No steps were taken by the guard to protect the train, as required by the
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Piggott, Nick (April 1995). "Fatal smash on Settle Carlisle".
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indicates the deadliest railway accident in British history
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Hidden Dangers - Railway Safety in the Era of Privatisation
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service (headcode 2H88). It could only proceed as far as
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of the first train was fatally injured in the collision.
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A memorial to the guard, Stuart Wilson, was erected in
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Railway accidents and incidents in the United Kingdom
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Radio conversation between Driver and Crew Control,
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Index

1913 Ais Gill rail accident
Aisgill
Cumbria
Settle-Carlisle Line
List of UK rail accidents by year
Aisgill
Cumbria
UK
class 156 Super-Sprinter
derailed
landslide
Settle-Carlisle Railway
Guard
Carlisle
Leeds
Settle
Ribblehead railway station
Ribblehead Viaduct
National Network Radio
Kirkby Stephen railway station
gangway connection
signalman
signal box
Leeds City Station
detonators
Railtrack
Class 60


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