Network Rail was warned about the network's resilience to severe weather just four weeks before the Aberdeenshire derailment.
Three people have died and six others have been injured after a train came off the tracks at Stonehaven this morning amid heavy rain and flooding.
Of those killed one was the driver and the other was the conductor. Rail industry sources told the PA news agency the suspected cause of the incident is a landslip and images from the scene show huge plumes of smoke billowing from the crash site.
An investigation has been launched into the major incident. It is understood the locomotive and three carriages derailed, and slid down an embankment, with 12 people thought to have been on the train at the time.
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