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A wagon on a container train derailed, and then re-railed at Reading West Junction, 28 January 2012.
Freight train derailment at Willesden High Level Junction, north-west London, 6 May 2019.
Derailment of an empty passenger train at Paddington station, 25 May 2014.
Derailment of a freight train near Wanstead Park, London, 23 January 2020
Derailment of an engineering train between Gloucester Road and Earl’s Court stations on London Underground, 12 May 2010.
Derailment of a freight train at Carrbridge, Badenoch and Strathspey, Scotland, 4 January 2010.
Derailment of a passenger train at Carmont, Aberdeenshire, 12 August 2020.
Runaway and derailment of a wagon at Clitheroe, Lancashire, 9 March 2020.
Derailment of a freight train at Shrewsbury station, 7 July 2012.
Derailment and fire involving a tanker train at Llangennech, Carmarthenshire, 26 August 2020.
Derailment at Grayrigg, Cumbria, 23 February 2007.
Derailment of two locomotives at East Somerset Junction, Somerset, 10 November 2008.
Derailment of a loaded coal train at Porthkerry, South Wales, 2 October 2014.
Derailment of passenger train, Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh, 27 July 2011.
Derailment due to a landslip, and subsequent collision at Watford, 16 September 2016.
Freight train derailment at Lewisham, south-east London, 24 January 2017.
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