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Train driver dies and 89 people injured after two trains collide near Bedford
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2026
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So it begs the question how two trains ended up on the same piece of track headed toward each other. I expect the passengers and the drivers family would like to know too.
They didn’t head towards each other. One train was stopped and the other went into the back of it. There must have been a signal passed at danger — would assume some kind of brake failure or bizarre driver error.
RAIB will give us more info when the report comes out
Heading towards eachother? One of them was stationary.