Slippery rails ‘almost certainly’ caused Salisbury crash
Fourteen people were hospitalised after two trains collided to the east of the city.
By Chris Milner
RYDE REOPENS: Train services finally returned to the Isle of Wight’s Island Line on November 1, almost 10 months after it closed for upgrades and seven months after it was originally planned to reopen due to delays with the engineering work and commissioning the new fleet of five two-car Class 484 third-rail Vivarail EMUs. Infrastructure improvements on the eight-and-a-half-mile line between Ryde and Shanklin include a new passing loop at Brading that will allow a 30-minute service frequency, although only one train an hour is expected to run until spring 2022. No. 484001 is pictured on Ryde Pier on November 3.
CHRIS WILSON