The location and cause of Southern Region 4-wheel wagon plain track derailments (TM-FT-068)

1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 The number of freight train derailments occurring on the Southern Region has always seemed, in relation to the volume of traffic carried, to be anomalously high in comparison with the numbers occurring on other Regions. (See Table 1) (Reference 1). In late 1974 and 1975 a...