Train Hits Rain Flood Landslide Derailed at Watford London Passengers in…

• London Midland train was hit by a landslide and derailed north Watford
• It was then struck by an oncoming train during derailment in ‘slow tunnel’
• Four people – including two drivers and pregnant passenger – were injured
• 400 passengers remain trapped on at least one of trains four hours later

Engineers out at Hunton Bridge Tunnel between Watford Junction station and Kings Langley Station.

British Transport Police were called to the scene along with the East of England Ambulance Service and Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service.

Part of the train derailed and was clipped by another. Both trains remain in the tunnel after the fire service helped evacuate passengers.

Two people were treated, one for a neck injury and the other for chest pain.

A Virgin train was sent to the scene to take stranded passengers on to King’s Langley, Hemel Hempstead and Milton Keynes.

Shaken train passengers were trapped inside a railway tunnel for four hours after a train was derailed by a landslide during the morning rush hour.