Rail track re-opens after freight train derailment and fire at Llangennech
By Richard Youle, Local Democracy Reporter Llangennech train fire THE rumble of trains has finally returned to a section of railway which resembled a scene “almost like Armageddon” in August last year. Passenger and freight services have begun plying the line near Llangennech, Carmarthenshire, where 520m of new track is the culmination of a major clear-up following a freight train derailment and fire on the night of August 26. The wrecked train, which was pulling 25 wagons, spilled around 350,000 litres of diesel fuel into an a...