A Greater Anglia Class 755 stands precariously close to where ballast has been washed away at Haddiscoe on January 30.

Among recommendations arising out of the accident were that greater attention should be devoted to the means of derailing runaways on lines so heavily graded as the Highland main line; were it double throughout, catch points would, of course, be laid in, but the catchpoint problem is a difficult one on a single line.

Police combed the field for evidence after the assault.

The evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.