First damaged carriage lifted from track after Salisbury train crash
Complex operation as carriages removed from accident site
Last updated 4th Nov 2021
The recovery process has begun in Salisbury following the train crash on Sunday night in Fisherton Tunnel.
British Transport Police and the Rail Accident Investigation Branch have handed the site back to Network Rail.
A large crane has lifted the first damaged carriage in what is being described as a 'complex operation.'
Diesel was then removed from the carriage before it was loaded on a lorry.
Five damaged carriages will need to be removed via crane, others were able to be wheeled out.
The work is expected to take until Sunday.
Damage to the track will need to be assessed before repairs are made, with the signalling being checked too to make sure it's safe for trains to return.
Network Rail say a "heavy refurbishment" will be carried out with new track possibly laid in Fisherton Tunnel.
The line will closed until at least Monday 15th of November.
Initial findings by investigators reveal a South Western Railway service failed to stop at reg signal due to wheel slippage depsite the driver applying brakes including two emergency ones.
It then collided with a Great Western Railway service which resulted in both trains derailing
The SWR train driver, 74 year old Robin Tandy, suffered "_life changing" i_njuries.
Thirteen patients were treated in Salisbury District Hosital.
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