 Replacements are being phased in over the next 18 months |
The South's outdated slam-door trains are finally being demolished, 15 years after they were condemned as unsafe. The first of South Central's old carriages was ripped apart on Wednesday in a railway scrapyard in Grimsby.
After the Clapham rail disaster in 1988 which killed 35 people, the slam-door trains were criticised by the Health and Safety Executive.
Six hundred more of the 40-year-old carriages will be scrapped during the next two years.
Replacements are being phased in over the next 18 months.
Much of the scrapped carriage material will be recycled, said Tim Gooseman from the railyard in which they are being scrapped.
"For a 35 tonne train you get 32 tonnes of metal recycled into the manufacturing industry, and there's three tonnes of waste," he said.
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