West Coast rail line blocked between Carlisle and Lancaster

Cumbria Ambulance and Fire services have now stood down from the scene, with all passengers safely evacuated to the Shap Wells Hotel, for road transport forward. Only the front 1st class coach of the 0428 Glasgow to Euston derailed near Shap summit (South of Penrith) due to a currently unknown cause.
Services are running from Glasgow and Edinburgh to Carlisle, and buses are reportedly being sourced to fill the gap to Preston.
Leeds to Carlisle and Newcastle to Carlisle trains are running, as is the Cumbria coast on a restricted timetable due to the Bransty tunnel closure.
Hopefully by Wednesday night when I travel back north on the last train of the night (1724 from Hereford to Carlisle) the line is reopened
The 11 car Pendolino 390117 is the derailed unit.

There were 85 passengers in total on the train.

it is reported that 4 people received minor injuries when the train hit a landslide.

An Avanti West Coast spokesperson is quoted as The incident is likely to cause "significant disruption to our network for a number of days"

Tickets for today and tomorrow can be used at any time until close of service on Friday.
Until services resume for Oxenholme use Northern services every 3 hours from Preston , or Northern to Carnforth hourly then buses 555 or 755 at own cost to Kendal and the Lake District.
For Penrith use other routes to Carlisle then bus 104 every 30 minutes at own cost. For Keswick use bus 554 direct from Carlisle if the timings are right.

It is now confirmed that the line will remain closed throughout Tuesday. It is intended that hourly replacement buses will run express and all stations, but as I write it is proving "challenging" to source enough vehicles.

UPDATE - Tuesday morning - Trans Pennine are now able to run some trains from Scotland as far as Penrith, and some of their trains from Liverpool and Manchester Airport are now running north of Preston to Lancaster and Oxenholme.
The red do not travel warning remains in place, but the situation is starting to ease a bit.

In awful weather the train was removed from site overnight and the overhead electric wires repaired. Earthworks on the landslide are now ongoing.

Caledonian Sleeper have been advised that the line should be re-opened at around midnight (EDITED - at 2100 tonight, Tuesday) to allow their trains to pass. So Avanti hope to run a full service tomorrow-Wednesday.

To put the incident into context Shap has had just under 8 inches of rain over the weekend, there are numerous flooding incidents around the Lake District, and several villages in the west are cut off.
The town of Cockermouth is at significant risk tonight (again), and the road into Borrowdale has a lot of deep standing water, barely passable.

Goodness, that sounds just awful for the people living around there, the farmers, business owners, etc. and for the rail workers out in that mess removing the train and the electrical workers getting the electricity back up and running ! Rather dire circumstances

We now have an interim Rail Accident Report on the incident- https://www.gov.uk/government/news/derailment-of-a-passenger-train-at-shap

It was caused when a drainage channel, which runs across the slope above the washed-out material, was unable to accommodate the volume of water which was present. This led to the slope material below becoming saturated, initiating the landslip.

Further work needs to be done to establish whether this was a maintenance issue, a design issue or whether such torrential and sustained rainfall could not reasonably have been catered for.

It is testament to the Pendolino trains that the train derailed at 83mph, but stayed upright and only the leading bogie of the leading car actually derailed during a journey of 560 metres after derailment. Also full credit to everyone involved in re-opening the line in just 37 hours.

Last night Cumbria again had severe rainfall which closed many roads including the M6 motorway for a time, but the railway remained open, albeit running under severe speed restrictions.