Gospel Oak to Barking line freight derailment

Indeed, it’s unwise to assume that the driver could or would be aware. For example, in October 2017, there was a loaded oil train that ran 25 miles with locked on brakes and very severe wheel flats in west Wales, and was only stopped by the vigilance (eventually, but that’s another story!) of signallers - www.gov.uk/raib-reports/report-17-2018-extensive-track-damage-between-ferryside-and-llangennech. The driver was unaware of this, despite the train being weighed in at 3,005 tonnes and the affected wagon being at the front of the train.

Given the length of some of the trains it is hardly surprising that derailments go unnoticed.

...Which deals with any idea of 'blame' being placed upon the driver.
Now, how do we eliminate this costly (and potentially dangerous) problem?

One other thing to take into account when there's "rescue" and replacement work on the modern railway is the fact tat there's the 25kv "spaghetti" to contend with. Until that is isolated no high equirment will be able to work.

That stuff can jump considerable gaps as any professional railwayman will know. With the probability that machines such as JCBs and other lifting equipment will be used, the whole secion will have to be isolated on both roads to enable work to be carried out. there's no spare diesel stock to provide replacement rolling stock even if single line working were feasible. It's all part of the disenfranchised modern railway.

On a railway staff FB group there's a discussion about the derailment of another freight train at Eastleigh. That too has caused considerable damage even though it was a low-speed incident. It's been suggested that there's now a shortage of rail-mounted heavy lifting equipment such as the typical steam cranes that used to be dotted around the place. with everything concentrated on the GOBLIN, there's no spare breakdown cpacity to clear up at Eastleigh!

According to reports the Eastleigh derailment was caused by a set of defective points that were being video monitored by Network Rail; it happened at a speed of 12-13mph.

My understanding (from reading past RAIB reports) is that correctly maintained wagons conveying correctly loaded containers running on correctly maintained track should not derail however they are loaded (with possible exceptions in exposed locations in very windy conditions). However there have been circumstances when the combination of a track fault that was within tolerance combined with a wagon fault that was also within tolerance lead to a derailment. This is not really relevant to the specific incident on the Goblin and we've already been asked to get back on topic once!

Trying to lift / re rail a wagon full of stone is considerably more difficult than an empty(ish) one. Plus as it has been suggested that a contributory cause was some of the wagons being overweight they may need emptying a bit anyway to recover them even if they are still on the rails.

Yes,quite.

That line is all bridges, not all of which look very robust. Overloaded wagons definitely not a good idea. A weighbridge somewhere might be  a good idea...

There is a thread here dedicated to derailment discussion, please can we stick to the specifics of the GOBLin derailment on this thread.

Perhaps some posts here could be moved to that thread.

Citymapper suggests that a journey from Barking to Walthamstow Queens Road departing now will take:
88 minutes by direct bus
62 minutes H&C to King's Cross then Victoria to Walthamstow Central
58 minutes District/H&C to Mile End, Central to Liverpool Street then Overground to Walthamstow Central
50 minutes District/H&C/c2c to West Ham, Jubilee to Stratford, Greater Anglia to Toteteham Hale and Victoria to Walthamstow Central.

123 bus from Ilford? Short bus ride from Barking to Ilford??

Yesterday Network Rail Liverpool Street tweeted "Sleepers are being replaced today" and around 4pm you could see wagons piled with concrete sleepers at Leyton Midland Road.

I think the ones in the picture are timber bearers for the bridge section - they look too long to be sleepers, with what aslefshrugged saw being something other than what was photographed.