Heat related derailments

Rail Engineer - Over the past 10 years there have been around 23 passenger train derailments, of which five resulted in injuries and two in fatalities. These have been the result of a wide range of causes with five derailments, 22 of the total, being due to track defects. Of these five, three were slow speed derailments on wide gauge track, and two were due to kinks in the track. These last two derailments occurred on two consecutive days this year ? 13 and 14 August.