Network Rail admits health and safety failings over fatal Stonehaven crash

Partner of conductor who died in Aberdeenshire with driver and passenger says her life has been turned upside down

The partner of a train conductor killed in a fatal derailment near Stonehaven said the crash turned her life upside down", after Network Rail admitted in court it was to blame for a series of failures over the crash.

Trish Ewen, 59, was speaking after Network Rail said on Thursday acknowledged a series of failures that led to the high-speed train crashing in August 2020 into a landslide, killing three people including her partner, Donald Dinnie.