The 1995 Ais Gill rail accident occurred near Aisgill, Cumbria, at about 18:55 hrs on 31 January 1995 when a class 156 Super-Sprinter was derailed by a landslide on the Settle-Carlisle Railway line and was subsequently run into by a similar train travelling in the opposite direction. The conductor of the first train, Mr Stuart Wilson was fatally injured in the collision.
The subsequent report made by Her Majesty's Railway Inspectorate was the last report to be submitted under the terms of the Regulation of Railways Act 1871, which was repealed in 1995.
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