Truck on the line
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• Rail services were left in chaos after a bread lorry crashed from a road onto a railway line and burst into flames.
The accident happened on the West Coast Main Line at Bletchley, Bucks, at the height of last Friday's rush hour. The driver of the vehicle, who scrambled up the bank to raise the alarm, escaped with minor injuries.
Rail services between London and Birmingham were left crippled following the accident. Power supplies were cut and a train with 40 passengers on board was left stranded after the crash.
A British Transport Police spokesman says: 'We cannot speculate as to the cause of the crash at this time."
• Rail services between London and Birmingham were disrupted just a matter of weeks ago when an artic became wedged under a bridge in Oxfordshire (11M16-22 Aug).