Greenock Rail Accident
On 25 June 1994, the 22:45 from Wemyss Bay to Glasgow, in Scotland, derailed and smashed into a bridge after hitting concrete blocks placed deliberately on the railway by vandals outside of where Drumfrochar railway station would be opened 4 years later. The train involved was a refurbished Class 303 Electric Multiple Unit. The concrete blocks were cable-trough covers, which were placed across the rails of the single-track line by two vandals who had climbed down to the railway to urinate on their way home. The railway at this point is on a curve, going to the right as the train was travelling. The leading bogie of the EMU derailed and the train immediately collided with the solid structure of the overbridge, crushing the driver's cab, killing driver Arthur McKee, 35, and also killing passenger Alan Nicol, 21, who was seated immediately behind the cab, with his back to the partition. Alan Nicol had taken this location to reduce the risk of injury from broken glass should ...
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Drumfrochar Railway Station
, symbol_location = gb , symbol = rail , image = Drumfrochar1.jpg , caption = Drumfrochar station, looking west towards Wemyss Bay in October 2007 , borough = Greenock, Inverclyde , country = Scotland , coordinates = , grid_name = Grid reference , grid_position = , manager = ScotRail , platforms = 1 , code = DFR , years = 24 May 1998 , events = Opened , mpassengers = , footnotes = Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road Drumfrochar railway station is a railway station located in a residential district in the south-western part of Greenock, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the Inverclyde Line, west of . Upon exiting the station to the west, one is confronted with panoramic views over the south-west of the town, including Greenock prison HMP Greenock is ...
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