{"id":539332,"date":"2026-04-19T12:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T12:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/539332\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T12:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T12:01:08","slug":"churnet-valley-railway-train-derails-as-services-halted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/539332\/","title":{"rendered":"Churnet Valley Railway train derails as services halted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A train has derailed on a heritage railway forcing a halt to services, its operator has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The locomotive and coach, which was not carrying passengers, came of the tracks on the Churnet Valley Railway shortly after departing Cheddleton, Staffordshire, on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement posted on Facebook, Churnet Valley Railway Plc (CVR) said the train consisted of &#8220;empty coaching stock&#8221; and no injuries had been reported after the incident, at about 09:40 BST.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) confirmed to the BBC it had been notified of the derailment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A train has derailed on a heritage railway forcing a halt to services, its operator has confirmed. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-539332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}