Road truck being loaded with damage cement wagon

Carlisle derailment crane lift but opening drifts into December

Alleleys truck loaded with damaged cement wagon at Petteril Bridge crash site in Carlisle Image Network Rail

A massive crane lift has helped Carlisle repairs ramp up. Eight hundred tonnes of crane does not come cheap, but that’s the price of restoring the railway south and east of Carlisle. After a massive cement train derailed in October, it has been a massive effort to reinstate the railway around Petteril Bridge Junction, a deceptively simple name for what has become a memorably complicated engineering task.

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Author: Simon Walton

Simon Walton is RailFreight's UK correspondent.

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Road truck being loaded with damage cement wagon

Carlisle derailment crane lift but opening drifts into December

Alleleys truck loaded with damaged cement wagon at Petteril Bridge crash site in Carlisle Image Network Rail

A massive crane lift has helped Carlisle repairs ramp up. Eight hundred tonnes of crane does not come cheap, but that’s the price of restoring the railway south and east of Carlisle. After a massive cement train derailed in October, it has been a massive effort to reinstate the railway around Petteril Bridge Junction, a deceptively simple name for what has become a memorably complicated engineering task.

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