'Some loss of life' being reported after a Tram derailed early this morning.
Horrendous.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-37919658
Horrendous.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-37919658
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Tram derailed in Croydon
- Thread starter Hiney
- Start date
alfredmizen
Banned
- Mar 11, 2015
- 6,342
It overturned not just derailed , terrible.
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 70,184
Very sad news. I used to take the tram from East Croydon to Beckenham every day on my last contract. Most of the line is flat, but just after Sandilands tram stop the track dips and banks sharply to the left. What with the torrential rain i wouldn't be surprised if there was some kind of subsidence at that point that caused the tram to derail and overturn. Such a safe way to travel normally, just makes it all the more tragic.
SeafordBHA
New member
- Aug 13, 2011
- 410
Hear they've arrested the driver? That's not normal practice unless they have some evidence is it?
Del Fenner
Because of Boxing Day
The tram was coming into Sandilands, not leaving it. That service comes out of the tunnel from New Addington via Lloyd Park, usually at high speed, then slows down very quickly to take the turn left into the Sandilands stop. It wouldn't take much to overcook it into the bend. Looking at the aerial photos, the overhead power cable posts were hit very hard judging by the angle that they are leaning at. 
clippedgull
Hotdogs, extra onions
Sky News reporting five dead, people still trapped
studio150
Well-known member
Sadly now confirmed 5 have died in the accident
Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
Blimey - when I worked in Bromley I used to take that service every day to catch the train at Beckenham.
Del Fenner
Because of Boxing Day
That service doesn't go to Beckenham, it's the New Addington service on the return journey.
Keith Patel
**** off Lino.
How awful, hope everyone else gets out ok.
Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
Ok, I stand corrected. Isn't it that junction where the 2 services converge / split though?
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 70,184
Beggars belief. Such unbelievable carnage is about as likely as it would be on the Volks Railway. Up til now, the worst that ever happened on the Tramlink to my knowledge as a user of many years experience was a car taking a wrong turning and straying onto the tracks, or somebody somehow managing to be hit by a tram. This is unreal.
Del Fenner
Because of Boxing Day
Yes it is. Looking from Sandilands the Beckenham Junction service turns left and the New Addington service turns right.
DavidRyder
Well-known member
- Jul 23, 2013
- 2,885
Appalling. Wishing everyone affected up there the very best.
Hillian1
( . ) ( . )
Sincerely hope none of our Nigels are caught up in this.
Guy in our office has been on the phone all morning trying to contact his brother who, he thinks, goes that way to work.
Guy in our office has been on the phone all morning trying to contact his brother who, he thinks, goes that way to work.
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
The driver would be mediscreened as a matter of procedure after any incident
