Wales train crash: Shocking pictures capture devastation after man killed in train smash

British Transport confirmed the dormant man's adjacent of kin person been informed and 15 radical had been taken to infirmary aft the low-speed collision betwixt 2 trains adjacent Llanbrynmair, Powys

This is the devastation near aft two trains smashed into each different connected a agrarian enactment successful Wales connected Monday night.

One antheral died and 15 different radical suffered injuries successful the crash, which led to the cancellations of services betwixt Shrewsbury successful Shropshire and Aberystwyth, Ceredigion. Emergency services including paramedics, firefighters and police rushed to the country upon the impact.

British Transport confirmed the dormant man's adjacent of kin person been informed aft the low-speed collision. They said nary of the injuries were believed to beryllium beingness threatening oregon beingness changing. Police said each passengers had been evacuated from some trains.

Dyfed-Powys Police had asked motorists to debar the A470, from Carno to Commins Coch, arsenic it has been closed. Drivers person been asked to find alternate routes. It has been claimed connected societal media that the collision resulted successful "mostly insignificant injuries" with a conductor and operator suffering worse injuries, which are not believed to beryllium life-threatening. The claims haven't been confirmed by the exigency services astatine this stage.

The National Police Air Service for the West and Wales Region said a chopper from St Athan responded to the bid crash. A station connected the societal media tract X said: "The chopper from St Athan, on with different chopper agencies and exigency services, responded to the bid clang successful Llanbrynmair. Our thoughts are with everyone affected. Grateful for the coordinated efforts of each teams connected the crushed and successful the air."

A British Transport Police spokesperson said: "Officers were called to the enactment adjacent Llanbrynmair astatine 7.29pm contiguous (21 October) to reports of a low-speed bid collision involving 2 trains. Paramedics, occurrence and rescue, and Dyfed Powys Police are each successful attendance and the incidental is ongoing."

A associated connection from Network Rail and Transport for Wales has besides been released, Wales Online reported. It says: "Emergency services are responding to an incidental adjacent Llanbrynmair successful Powys, Mid Wales, involving 2 trains – the 18.31 Transport for Wales work from Shrewsbury to Aberystwyth and the 19.09 Transport for Wales work from Macyhnlleth to Shrewsbury.

"The enactment is closed arsenic they transportation retired their work. Our main precedence is the information of our passengers and colleagues, and we are doing each we tin to enactment the exigency services arsenic they respond to the incident. We would promote passengers to program up and cheque journeys earlier travelling via National Rail Enquiries."