Train de-rails

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a virgin train has de-railed.

Passengers are reported to be injured and trapped after a train derailed and slid down an embankment in Cumbria. Nine carriages were left on their side, with some "stuck up in the air", passengers said. Fire crews said it was thought there were "numerous injuries".
The Virgin train, the 1715 GMT service from London's Euston Station to Glasgow Central, came off the rails at Grayrigg near Kendal at 2015 GMT.
Passenger Caroline Thomson said there were "lots and lots walking wounded".
She said the train seemed to hit something before the derailment.
RAF helicopters, police and fire crews have been sent to the scene of collision, between Oxenholme and Tebay in the Lake District.
Cumbria Ambulance Service said six to eight people are feared to trapped in one of the carriages of the train which had about 180 people on board and was in Glasgow at 2154 GMT.
There's some carriages stuck up in the air and some are just lying on their sides


Ruth Colton, passenger


Michael Mulford from RAF Kinloss rescue centre said his crews were searching the carriages "systematically and are finding people injured in all sorts of places".
"What the helicopters are being used for at the moment will be casualty evacuation," he said.
"Three big hospitals are already on major standby and at least one other is ready to receive as well."
BBC executive Ms Thomson said: the train "did a sort of bump - and I was thinking don't worry this fine - but then the swaying became very dramatic.
"It suddenly appeared to hit something and then lurched very, very badly from side to side in a very dramatic way. This a very scary experience."


The Pendolino tilting trains, which are built in Italy, have been introduced by Virgin over the last three years and have a top speed of 125 mph.
Network Rail said the line speed for the area where the crash took place was about 95 mph.
Another passenger, Ruth Colton, said: "I was just reading a book and it started to get really bumpy like we were being battered by heavy winds or something and then suddenly the carriage flipped over.
"Pretty much all of the carriages are off the track.

"The train seems to have fallen down an embankment and rolled...
"There's some carriages stuck up in the air and some are just lying on their sides. We all had to climb out the top of one of ours".
The British Transport Police is setting up a family liaison centre at Glasgow Central station for people worried about friends or relatives on the train.

[Barkseh2131]

Just been watching it on sky news, must be awful for their family tuning into the news and seeing that their trains crashed.

[:Hazel]

i wonder what the train hit :s

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i was a train like that in the summer, virign one, it got hit by lightening and we had to geet a tube ype train to liverpool.

anyways yeah im not surprised they derailed, when they go round corners they proper slide to one side, its not safe really.

[Jamie!]

Im watching it on sky news now, tebay is in the middle of nowhere although next to the M6 motorway.. looks like a tragic accident

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any fatalities yet?

im not saying that as if im excited, just worried.

[Jamie!]

Suprised theres only been 1 killed because every carriage has came off the track and slid down the bank to the side of the track.

[velocity]

anyways yeah im not surprised they derailed, when they go round corners they proper slide to one side, its not safe really.

there made to do that, there records are almost perfect anyway ;s

[ebay]

sad to hear it

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there made to do that, there records are almost perfect anyway ;s

i know there made to do that idiot, im just saying, if something slides to one side as bad as that, then obviously its going to affect balance.

i mean on the way to liverpool, coming out of watford junction, there is a massive bend, your practically on your side.