Bad maintenance 'caused rail crash'

Nov 4 2011

Badly maintained points caused the death of a woman in the Grayrigg train crash, an inquest jury has ruled.

Margaret Masson, 84, died after a Virgin Pendolino London to Glasgow express train derailed on the West Coast Main Line near the remote village of Grayrigg in Cumbria at 8.12pm on February 23 2007.

All eight carriages of the Class 390 tilting train were derailed and 86 passengers and two crew from the 105 people aboard were injured as the train came off the rails at 95mph, scattering carriages down an earth embankment.