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The derailment at Lewes on Thursday got all the attention, but there was another derailment nearby. Volks Electric Railway tram 10 derailed. https://x.com/imjustbrighton_/status/2087913930890830050 "The Volks Railway just derailed right in front of meThe shortest journey of your lives...

Question is will they investigate the derailment on the Volks Electric Railway yesterday?

A photo on the BBC News story shows that the fifth carriage bears the number 42434. Does that help identify the unit involved?

I attended the recent open day at Robertsbridge, where the Hastings Unit was running shuttles to Northbridge Street. We were told that reopening is scheduled for Easter 2028.

That's the second accident for 008. Hit a van on a level crossing in 2017.

RAIB have opened a full investigation into the accident. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/passenger-train-collision-with-a-road-vehicle-at-redcar-level-crossing

158856 was the unit involved at Elsenham in 2005.

And what if a trampoline blows onto the line and short circuits the track circuit? You get a red, don't you? AIUI, all a green signal does is give permission to pass. It says nothing at all about what is ahead.

OK, I've read the whole of the report, and all posts in this thread. Something is bothering me. Report states that driver of the first train had a series of greens, then encountered a (false) red and was unable to stop at the signal. Given that a signal can revert to red at any time for any...

Which is probably a better course of action than driving on.

OK, here's a radical suggestion. Why don't the TOCs purchase a fleet of buses / coaches, and employ their own drivers for RRBs?

Thank you, hadn't seen an aerial view.

If you mean the Münchendorf derailment, that appears to have happened on plain line, from photographs in the press.

Looking at that aerial photo, there seems to be some heritage operation adjacent to the station. Any details?

Does anyone know anything about an apparent threat to close Lenham station on the Maidstone East Line? Apparently there's a petition open against it, and the development https://www.change.org/p/save-lenham-rail-station