| Re: On this day: up sleeper derailment across Paddington station throat 23/11/83 Posted by Electric train at 09:47, 24th November 2025 |     |
I remember the incident very well, I was working at Paddington in the station BR maintenance team as an electrician. It took us weeks afterward to clear up and reinstall all the electric points heating cabling and equipment that got destroyed.
I was fortunate that it was Mk3 sleeping cars and not Mk1, the Mk3's were fairly new only being entered into service in 1982
| Re: On this day: up sleeper derailment across Paddington station throat 23/11/83 Posted by grahame at 20:08, 23rd November 2025 | |
Anyone find the RAIB report on this? I can't seem to locate it.
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And for members there is a mirror at https://www.firstgreatwestern.info/mirror/DoT_Paddington1983.pdf
| Re: On this day: up sleeper derailment across Paddington station throat 23/11/83 Posted by stuving at 19:51, 23rd November 2025 | |
This was before the RAIB. There were public hearings conducted by a DoT inspector, Major Charles Rose. This heard that the train did not brake - the driver said he did apply a bake, but no fault was found to explain this. The report (of 16/2/84) concluded that the driver failed to apply the brakes, for unexplained reasons (possibly not known to the driver himself).
| Re: On this day: up sleeper derailment across Paddington station throat 23/11/83 Posted by bobm at 15:00, 23rd November 2025 | |
| Re: On this day: up sleeper derailment across Paddington station throat 23/11/83 Posted by ChrisB at 14:44, 23rd November 2025 | |
Anyone find the RAIB report on this? I can't seem to locate it.
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| On this day: up sleeper derailment across Paddington station throat 23/11/83 Posted by Mark A at 13:46, 23rd November 2025 | |
TV footage from what was not a good day at Paddington, but one that could have been much worse.
Mark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mOzSqqkrcM
