8 Miraculous train derailment with only one casualty
It was a tranquil setting in the heart of the picturesque Lake District.
But on a cold, rainy evening in February 2007, the peace at a farmland near to the tiny village of Grayrigg was shattered when a Virgin Pendolino London to Glasgow express train derailed on the West Coast Main Line. In just a few seconds, 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 95 mph locomotive came off the rails and carriages scattered down an earth embankment.
One person died, 84-year-old Margaret ‘Peggy’ Masson, who survived the initial impact but died later in hospital.
