Four firefighters injured during ‘extrem ely hazardous’ Stonehaven crash response

Good morning,

Four firefighters were injured yesterday at the ‘extremely hazardous’ scene of the train crash in Aberdeenshire that killed three people onboard.

The 6:38am Inter7City train from Aberdeen to Glasgow was derailed by a landslide on the track between Stonehaven and Carmont at around 9:45am on Wednesday.

It came in the wake of large thunderstorms across Scotland on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, with 79mm of rain falling in Stonehaven in just 24 hours.

The train’s driver Brett McCullough, and its conductor Donald Dinnie, were both killed in the crash, along with one passenger. Six others were injured.

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