Slick work cleans up Welsh oil spill

Llangennech derailment from the air

It has taken six months and the cooperation of agencies from all across Wales to rectify a derailed train, wrecked rails, a massive fire, an oil spill, and an environmental disaster on the railway line through Llangennech, in South Wales. The disaster could have been on a par with the Sea Empress grounding in 1996, the effects of which are still being measured twenty-five years later. But it did not.

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Author: Simon Walton

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Slick work cleans up Welsh oil spill

Llangennech derailment from the air

It has taken six months and the cooperation of agencies from all across Wales to rectify a derailed train, wrecked rails, a massive fire, an oil spill, and an environmental disaster on the railway line through Llangennech, in South Wales. The disaster could have been on a par with the Sea Empress grounding in 1996, the effects of which are still being measured twenty-five years later. But it did not.

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Author: Simon Walton

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