Train excitement!

There was a freight train derailment just past Newport. The train I was on slowed right down as we went past so I had a good squiz.

Two freight cars fell completely, half a dozen other cars were off the tracks. New tracks were already being built where tracks had been destroyed. There were huge cranes lifting up the fallen cars, they had large chains around the bellies of the cars.

It was a long train too, had three large engines and maybe 50 cars.

There were special rail cars to test the tracks, to fix the tracks, to build tracks, crane train cars too.

No one was hurt and it was all very interesting.