Emergency stop buttons added to MPVs after collision

David StubbingsNews Editorrail@bauermedia.co.uk

NEW emergency stop buttons have been fitted to Network Rail multi-purpose vehicles on HS1, as part of the response to a collision that left a driver off work for four months. The driver was injured in a low-speed collision involving on-track machines, during an engineering possession on the high-speed line between Singlewell loops and Medway Viaduct (near Strood), at around 0415 on November 16 2023. A driver (driver 1), who was coupling an MPV (MPV1) to a tamper, was injured when a second MPV (MPV2) collided with the vehicles at around 12mph. A Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) report said MPV2 was supposed to stop between 50 and 100 metres from the stationary tamper, where the machine controller would hand over control to the drivers. MPV2 was travelling in reverse,…

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