EMERGENCY services worked through the night at the scene of a train derailment near Kendal.
An eighty-year-old woman was killed and five other passengers seriously hurt when the Virgin Pendolino train derailed at Grayrigg. Several carriages of the nine carriage train were turned over after the Virgin London to Glasgow service derailed at 8pm on Friday.
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