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Derailment at Lewes this afternoon -13th August 2026

swords_alive
swords_alive Posts: 5,025
edited August 13 in Not Sports Related

The 2.24 Victoria to Eastbourne Southern train has derailed outside Lewes at about 3.30pm. No fatalities or serious injuries reported by the BBC, as of 5.30pm. Routes through the area at a standstill, obviously.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cly5252xqdvt

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  • ME14addick
    ME14addick Posts: 10,251
    Hopefully not serious injuries, but an eye witness on BBC news did say that he saw several people with injuries. 
  • swords_alive
    swords_alive Posts: 5,025
    ME14addick said:
    Hopefully not serious injuries, but an eye witness on BBC news did say that he saw several people with injuries. 
    Yes, sorry, report had said, no serious injuries at that time. Edited. Hopefully stays like that
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 24,418
    We travelled back that way on Sunday. On the journey out, Hastings via High Brooms etc, we noticed the journey was incredibly bumpy. Britain isn't built for this heat
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 39,448
    A friend of a friend is on there, seen a photo of people standing/sitting inside a sideways carriage. 
  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 19,437
    2 serious injuries now announced, sadly.
  • LoOkOuT
    LoOkOuT Posts: 11,180
    Scary stuff. 
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 31,140

  • wolfgang
    wolfgang Posts: 1,177
    edited August 13
    A Southern spokesman has commented that "It was the wrong sort of heat".
  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,661
    Hope everyone is OK. 
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 30,056
    Another derailment now. This one at Wickford. Hope everyone's OK. At very least there are going to be some awful onward journeys.

    https://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/26465925.train-derails-railway-line-wickford---live-updates/


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  • Southendaddick
    Southendaddick Posts: 5,512
    Blimey my train line get it every day to work 

    Hope everyone is ok 
  • ME14addick
    ME14addick Posts: 10,251
    Southendaddick said:
    Blimey my train line get it every day to work 

    Hope everyone is ok 
    The train remained upright fortunately. 
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 20,087
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gx12v8z51o

    A defect was found on railway tracks in East Sussex at the site where a train derailed leaving 30 injured, a report says.

    Initial findings from the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) found an "irregularity" with the tracks near Lewes where three carriages tumbled down an embankment last Thursday.

    The RAIB, which is continuing to investigate the derailment, said it had received "several reports of rough riding at the location of the derailment from passengers on other trains".

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