West Coast fined over Wootton Bassett SPAD

摘要

West Coast Railway Co Ltd was fined £200 000 and ordered to pay costs of £64 000 at Swindon Crown Court on June 27, having pleaded guilty to charges brought by ORR. The prosecution followed an incident at Wootton Bassett Junction on March 7 2015, where a steam charter service operated by the company with 477 passengers and 39 staff on board had passed a signal at danger, coming to a stand 700 m beyond the signal and across the junction.