Derailment of 8Z40, 04.45h Westbury/Newbury at Lavington on 1 Mar 74 (TM-FT-040)

The leading wheelsets of the third and thirteenth 16 ton Minfits in the above train, which was fully fitted and loaded with stone, became derailed to the right-hand side of the Up Line at approximately 87 miles 569 yards. Both wheelsets ran derailed on concrete sleepers until they struck the...