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Published Date: 06 January 2007
TRAIN services from Waverley Station will continue to be disrupted until Monday as investigators probe how three slow-moving, empty coaches came to be derailed.
The carriages were removed from the spot where they derailed in Princes Street Gardens at 11pm last night and safety officials were examining the tracks today.

The empty coaches came off the rails on Thursday night. No-one was hurt.

Train operator First ScotRail said services out of the station will be disrupted throughout the weekend.

Many services to and from Waverley were affected yesterday, and the Edinburgh to Glasgow service was reduced to every 30 minutes.

A First ScotRail spokesman said: "There is an improving situation, but there is going to be ongoing disruption today and tomorrow.

"There are no cancellations, but some trains which would have left from Waverley will be leaving from Haymarket. This is simply due to access at Waverley.

"We are hoping it will be back to normal by Monday, which is when a lot of people go back to work after the festive season."

He apologised for the inconvenience and said extra staff were in place to assist customers.

A Network Rail spokeswoman said they did not yet know the cause of the derailment.



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1

Paul Voltaire,

www.paulvoltaire.spaces.live.com 06/01/2007 12:03:12

The time taken to put this right is a disgrace.
No wonder folk take the car

2

craig51,

06/01/2007 12:03:41

And how many people stood around for 20-30mins waiting for one of those stupid shuttle buses to pick them, thus making them late for work, and affecting their collegues work by arriving late and moaning again about the trains being crap.

3

Andy,

06/01/2007 12:44:17

#1 Paul I usually have a fair amount of time for you but if you had ANY idea how much time and effort is being put in to restoring the line then you would keep quiet this time. It isn't simply moving the train carriages, the track from which it derailed will probably need replaced, trackside equipment was damaged probably beyond repair and electrical cables were sheared.

The comment about cars is also completely out of context as people don't make a knee-jerk switch to trains if they get held up behind a major accident on the M8. Same thing.

4

The DJ,

06/01/2007 13:21:15

Motorists are sick to death of being told how much safer and efficient public transport is. This week's coach accident and train derailment simply show that these arguments are nonsense.

5

Cramondo,

06/01/2007 13:51:48

#4 Have you idea how many people were killed in the UK in the past month in car accidents, train accidents and bus accidents? I'd suspect many more in car accidents.

I think your post shows more about the quality of your arguments. But if you want to generalise from single events that's your prerogative...

6

shuggee,

Edinburgh 06/01/2007 15:50:14

So #4 - 3500 killed on the roads every year and no public fatalities on the railways since 2002. Hmmmm - you talk a lot of sense.

7

Agent 99,

06/01/2007 18:13:36

[6] Shuggee: DJ [4] is clearly a petrol head with selective perception. A mere 3500 road deaths wouldn't phase him; after all it was probably nearer 6000 25 years ago, so that's 2500 lives saved each year by motoring according to his twisted logic.

I note he also raised the issue of transport efficiency. He'll no doubt trot out a spreadsheet showing how the costs of a road journey can be conveniently distorted by masking out the costs of owning the car, repairing the road [well, that at least might not apply in Edinburgh] so that the car is always more cost effective than the bus, train or mule.

It's impossible to reason with the likes of them. They don't understand the concepts of robust safety policies and practices.


 

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