Family blames NR for rail death

Nov 4 2011

The family of a woman killed in the Grayrigg train crash said they held Network Rail responsible for their mother's death as a jury ruled that a set of badly maintained points were the cause.

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 of the 105 people aboard were injured as the 95mph locomotive came off the rails and carriages scattered down an earth embankment.