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Telford Steam Railway to close for rest of month after accident
Wednesday 6th July 2011, 7:05PM BST.
Telford Steam Railway will be closed for the rest of this month and all of August after an accident at the tourist attraction which left the group’s chairman in hospital.
The site will remain closed while bosses at the site in Bridge Road, Horsehay, carry out an internal investigation and the Office of Rail Regulation, the independent rail safety regulator, completes its own report.
If follows an incident on Saturday afternoon when the railway’s chairman, Paul Hughes, suffered serious injuries when his legs were crushed by a piece of railway track.
David Angell, Telford Steam Railway media officer, said: “We are still in the middle of our own internal audit assessment following the incident.
“We have taken a decision to close the railway for at least all of July and all of August. It was our decision.
“I understand the Office of Rail Regulation still have some statements to take for their own investigation.”
Mr Hughes was in a group of five volunteers who were moving materials, including pieces of railway track, to a new station up the line. A piece of the track fell from a hand-powered crane and crushed Mr Hughes’s legs.
Mr Hughes went to the University Hospital in North Staffordshire for emergency surgery.
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