Upon the miasma of midnight, a darkling spirit identified as S.Byers
gently breathed:
The extent of the damage in the Berkshire crash was caused by two
major factors apart from the speed of the train and the limited view
of the hero driver.

These we

1/ the rear power car, still under full power, caused much of the
crumpling and jack knifing, and

This is believed to be incorrect, but is in the interim HSE report which
might explain why it got posted here.

In reality, the power car of an HST weighs only the same as two coaches
(70 tons vs 35 tons), so in reality it was the combined momentum of the
whole train that caused the damage - as the HSE interim report does
comment. Stopping 350 tons in such a short space requires the
dissipation of a great deal of energy, and this is what caused the
damage.

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