{"id":29022,"date":"2024-04-19T21:38:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T11:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=29022"},"modified":"2024-04-19T21:38:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T11:38:02","slug":"significant-progress-made-in-recovery-after-train-derailment-in-grange-over-sands-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=29022","title":{"rendered":"Significant progress made in recovery after train derailment in Grange-over-Sands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.networkrail.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Network Rail<\/a> engineers have successfully repaired the embankment as part of a complex operation to recover the railway after a train derailed in Grange-over-Sands on Friday 22 March 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The next step is to relay the ballast and track before services can run again.<\/p>\n<p>Engineers confirm the work is on track to be completed next week.<\/p>\n<p>The derailment involved a Northern train coming off the tracks. A void in the ground was found around 150m away from the train.<\/p>\n<p>The team have been working around the clock to repair the damage as efficiently as possible.<\/p>\n<p>A specialist crane was brought in to rerail and remove the train from the site of the derailment.<\/p>\n<p>With the train safely removed, engineers could start to repair the railway.<\/p>\n<p>A variety of methods were used to carry out a thorough investigation into the ground conditions at the site, while also carrying out complicated repairs in the challenging environment.<\/p>\n<p>Phil James, North West route director, said: \u201cI\u2019m grateful to the people of Cumbria for their patience whilst we carry out this complex investigation and recovery of the railway in Grange-over-Sands following the recent derailment of a Northern train.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur engineers are working tirelessly to repair and reopen the railway. We are doing everything we can to get trains on the move between Lancaster and Barrow-in-Furness as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Passengers are advised to visit northernrailway.co.uk\/service-updates for the latest travel advice.<\/p>\n<p>Craig Harrop, regional director for Northern in the North West, said: \u201cThis is an important milestone in the significant infrastructure repair works that were needed in order for our services to safely resume. We look forward to Network Rail re-opening the line so that we can operate through rail services and re-connect our customers with the rest of our network.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the latest updates on the incident, passengers can follow the Network Rail Lancashire and Cumbria X account (formerly Twitter) on @NetworkRailLC.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Network Rail engineers have successfully repaired the embankment as part of a complex operation to recover the railway after a train derailed in Grange-over-Sands on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":29023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[7,11],"class_list":["post-29022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rail-news","tag-transport","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}