Police and recovery teams are today preparing to remove the wreckage of a 26-tonne cement mixer that fell from a bridge on to a train carriage.
It may be Monday before rail services can return to normal in the area of the incident, in south-west London.
The lorry crashed through a brick wall and on to a commuter line near Oxshott station in Surrey as the Guildford to Waterloo train was passing below. Five of the 40 passengers on the eight-carriage train were injured, two seriously.
Dominic Raab, the local Conservative MP for Esher and Walton, said he became aware of the incident at about 5pm yesterday.
He said: “The focus of this operation was on extraction of the injured. We know there were two seriously injured taken to St George’s Hospital in London, fortunately non life-threatening.”
He added an inquiry would be held into why the bridge collapsed.
“We will have all the inquiries and forensics conducted in the days and hours ahead, both by the police and also by the rail accident investigation branch, but we will have to wait for the outcome as to why this happened and to make sure it doesn’t happen again,” he said.
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