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Article: Rail delays as crash cleared ; Crowds watch salvage operation Crowds watch salvage operation
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- Evening Mail
- Article date:
- November 2, 2000
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MIDLAND commuters were facing long delays today as a salvage
operation continued to clear the scene of a mail train crash.
Crowds gathered on the bridge overlooking the scene near Bristol
city centre despite pouring rain to watch two cranes lift the
remains of a Royal Mail train from a line of battered coal trucks.
The salvage operation is disrupting rail services across the West
Country as the crash happened on the mainline from Bristol to
Birmingham and South Wales.
The wrecked rolling stock has been cleared and work is now
beginning on the track at Lawrence Hill station.
A Railtrack spokesman said the work was ahead of schedule and he
hoped the line could be ...