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SHEFFIELD (1) - At 0245 on November 11th, 2020, a freight train carrying cement in 34 wagons from Hope Cement Works in Derbyshire to Dewsbury in West Yorkshire derailed at slow speed in Sheffield Station. The incident has caused significant damage to both the tracks and the signalling system and substantial repairs need to take place. However, before these repairs take place, the derailed train needs to be removed.
Network Rail successfully removed all of the wagons which didn’t derail in the incident and removed the cement from those wagons which did derail, to enable them to be safely lifted and removed by a crane. The cement is being removed by heavy-duty vacuums.
It is hoped that all the wagons can be removed by November 14th so that repairs to track and signalling equipment can commence.
Throughout November 11th, only three of the eight platforms at Sheffield station available for use, meaning that passenger services were been disrupted. Although CrossCountry and TransPennine Express were running a near normal service, and will continue to do so over the weekend, many Northern services werel heavily impacted, with bus replacement services running across a number of routes. East Midlands Railway was running an amended timetable between Sheffield, Chesterfield and London St Pancras.
Looking west through Sheffield Station, showing the derailed cement wagons.