Faults found in weather management at Carmont

An investigator examines the accident site at Carmont.

Recommendations have been made by RAIB about the railway’s extreme weather processes and safe operations in such conditions as part of the report into the Carmont derailment.

The investigation found ‘Network Rail’s management processes had not addressed weaknesses in the way it mitigated the consequences of extreme rainfall events’.

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