Scottish police confirmed that several people were injured after two trains collided at Aviemore railway station in the Scottish Highlands.
Police Scotland said in a statement: “Two people were taken to Raigmore Hospital, and a number of other passengers are being treated at the scene and investigations are still ongoing.”
The statement indicated that the collision occurred at the station located 965 km north of the British capital, London.
Scotrail, a train operator in Scotland, announced in a post on X (formerly Twitter) that “Due to emergency services responding to an incident on a private railway near the main line, we are currently unable, while it is in operation, to run any trains through the Aviemore station.”
British media reports stated that one of the two trains, the Flying Scotsman, was built a hundred years ago and was the first steam train to exceed a speed of one hundred miles per hour.
In August 2020, a train heading from Aberdeen to Glasgow derailed due to a landslide due to heavy rain, killing three people near the town of Stonehaven in northeastern Scotland.
Source: National Iraqi News Agency