Investigators say early findings point to ‘low adhesion between wheels and track’
Leaves on the line may have been behind a train crash at Salisbury that left 13 passengers needing hospital treatment and a driver with life-changing injuries, it has emerged.
Inspectors from the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) said early findings pointed to “low adhesion between the wheels and the track” as the reason why the South Western service failed to stop at the junction where two lines merged and crashed into the side of a Great Western train. Such low adhesion is most often caused by leaves on the line.
