BBC NEWS | Scotland | Rail workers flee runaway train
Railway workers had to run for their lives when a runaway train hurtled down the line towards them.
The locomotive travelled for two miles after setting off from Edinburgh’s Waverley Station before coming to a halt, it has been revealed.
The driverless engine only ended its unscheduled journey when it was switched into a siding in the east of the city.
Sounds like a repeat of the accident a few years back at the very same location when a driverless class 37 locomotive ran away down the grade at Edinburgh Waverley after being uncoupled from it’s train. That time it ran head-on into an approaching passenger train, causing quite a few injuries as well as writing-off the poor class 37
Typically the BBC have got the photo wrong – it shows a class 66 diesel rather than the class 90 electric that actually ran away.
