2023-09-29 23:19:52
Several people were injured on Friday when an old steam locomotive and a train collided at a station in northern Scotland, Scottish Police said.
“At approximately 7:00 p.m. (6:00 p.m. GMT) on Friday (…) we received a report of a collision between two trains at Aviemore station” in the Highlands region, a police spokesperson said.
Two people were taken to a nearby hospital and “a number of other passengers are being treated at the scene,” he added.
The National Railway Museum reported on X that “the Flying Scotsman steam locomotive was involved in the shunting incident at Aviemore station.”
The Flying Scotsman is a century-old locomotive restored last year and was the first to reach 100 miles per hour (about 160 km/h).
The accident would have occurred on a “private (railway) track next to the main track”, according to a message published by the railway company ScotRail on X (formerly Twitter) to warn its customers that traffic was disrupted.
According to the Scottish daily The Scotsmanthe collision occurred when the locomotive was maneuvering to hook up with the carriages of the Royal Scotsman, a luxury train owned by the Belmond hotel and leisure group.
A Belmond spokesperson quoted by the newspaper described the collision as “slight”.
In 2020, three people were killed in the derailment of a train linking Aberdeen to Glasgow in the north-east of Scotland. The manager of the British rail network was fined 6.7 million pounds (7.8 million euros) in early September for breaches of safety regulations.
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