OFF THE RAILS
Daily Mirror UK|January 10, 2024
Call for iconic InterCity trains to go as they're called 'death traps'
GRAHAM HISCOT
OFF THE RAILS

PRESSURE is growing to withdraw all remaining InterCity 125 trains from service after they were branded "death traps".

The locomotives entered service in 1976, heralding a new era of rail travel in Britain. But train drivers' union ASLEF says a crash last month exposed design failures.

Critics say cabs are constructed of fiberglass and plywood, offering very little protection in a collision.

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