Potters Bar inquest to investigate link with Virgin derailment at Grayrigg

Aspects of last month’s Grayrigg derailment echoed the Potters Bar crash in 2002

Aspects of last month’s Grayrigg derailment echoed the Potters Bar crash in 2002

The inquest into the seven deaths caused by the Potters Bar derailment in 2002 will examine whether there is any link between that incident and last month’s derailment at Grayrigg on February 23, in which one woman died.

Mr Justice Sullivan, who is conducting the Potters Bar inquest, said apparent similarities in the points failures which caused both crashes could not be ignored. At a pre-inquest hearing Sullivan considered it was his duty to decide whether the Grayrigg crash shed any...