Derailment of Grampus wagon at Hyndland West on 12 May 1996 (RR-TRS-96-020)

On 12th May 1996 the thirty-first wagon, of a train consisting of fifty civil engineering wagons, became derailed at Hyndland West Junction. To assist in determining the cause of the derailment the BR Research Limited Derailment Investigation Team was requested to undertake an impartial investigation. This report details the...