Pair in court over rail crash
Two men have appeared in crown court charged with endangering the safety of train passengers following a crash in Powys in the summer.
The crash between the passenger train carrying 90 people and a tractor and trailer occurred at a farm crossing close to Buttington Hall in Buttington, just north of Welshpool, on July 16.
Tractor driver Ifan Gwyn Evans, 28, of Penyffordd, Llanfyllin, and co-defendant John Elwyn Roberts, 74, of Oldford Rise, Welshpool, appeared at a short preliminary hearing at Mold Crown Court yesterday morning.
The pair, who earlier at Welshpool Magistrates Court denied a charge of endangering the safety of persons using the railway, were not asked to plead in crown court.
They were bailed pending a plea and case management hearing on January 31 when they will be formally asked to enter their pleas.
