Work to recover a derailed Javelin train at Ramsgate will now take place in the new year..
The ‘Ben Ainslee’ Javelin derailed from the line at Ramsgate on November 28.
The train ran through the buffer stop with the front 2 coaches derailing close to the Manston Road bridge.
There were no passengers aboard at the time of the incident and Southeastern says it was running at ‘low speed’ in a siding at the depot.
The Javelin remains in the sidings and Network Rail imposed a temporary speed restriction of 20 mph on both lines past the site of the derailment.
Video David Joseph Wright
A spokesperson for the Southeastern-Network Rail Alliance said: “We have a plan to re-rail and recover the damaged train at Ramsgate, however, given the need to use specialist equipment in order to do so, this will now be rescheduled as soon as possible in the new year.”
Since derailing the train has been targeted with graffiti and this has been reported to British Transport Police.
It is understood that instead of using a crane to move the Javelin it may instead be jacked up and a temporary track put down to allow damaged components to be cut off before it’s moved.
Such a sad reflection on the UK currently. Delay after delay in everything these days, in the era of steam and the old British Railways, they would have just got on with it, considering they had less advanced technology and equipment.
What arr they doing that’s so wrong?
The derailed train isn’t blocking any tracks. It’s not a hazard to anyone.
I expect that they’re trying to work out a way of recovering the train without causing unnecessary disruption to services.
Some people like Gerard are stuck in arrested development, wearing rose tinted glasses and rejecting modernity. They’re not doing it EXACTLY how he would, so he maligns and whinges.
Anon, your whinging at his so called whinging, for seeing things not EXACTLY how you do.
Andrew, only a £8 million train sitting there out of service! Thought you loved public transport.
as a child some 65 years ago a shunting engine on the Tivolli spur by Nash Court Rd regularly left the track and a rail crane would lift it back onto the track within about an hour. Watched it many times.
so you’re saying 65 years ago things weren’t as efficient, or safe, given the derailing were a regular occurrence?
The graffiti…the “crash bang wallop” handstyle on the driver door looks extremely similar to Cat Neils handstyles, just saying…