RAILSCOT | Fire on Oil train at Beattock [Railscot]

Fire on Oil train at Beattock [Railscot]

Date: 07/09/2000

A southbound freight train of 18 oil tank wagons carrying diesel en route from Motherwell to Carlisle stopped at Beattock at 02:00 when one of the wagons caught fire after a leak. Fire engines from Strathclyde and Dumfries and Galloway attended but the fire had burned out on their arrival.

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