47324 crashed at Oxley Junction, Wolverhampton, March 1985
British Railways 47324 pictured after crashing at Oxley Junction, Wolverhampton in March 1985. The coal train had run driverless from Oxley Carriage Sidings to Oxley Junction where it derailed at speed and ended up embedding itself into the long disused track bed of the former Wolverhampton-Wombourne-Stourbridge line, making it the first train to go further than the buffer stops since 1967. The picture shows the recovery operation a day or so later.
Location of accident on Google Satallite map: maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&tim...
47324 crashed at Oxley Junction, Wolverhampton, March 1985
British Railways 47324 pictured after crashing at Oxley Junction, Wolverhampton in March 1985. The coal train had run driverless from Oxley Carriage Sidings to Oxley Junction where it derailed at speed and ended up embedding itself into the long disused track bed of the former Wolverhampton-Wombourne-Stourbridge line, making it the first train to go further than the buffer stops since 1967. The picture shows the recovery operation a day or so later.
Location of accident on Google Satallite map: maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&tim...