A pensioner who died after he was involved in a horror train crash in rural Wales had "just begun to travel" with his wife at the time of his death.

Police have named a man who tragically died after two trains collided in Wales. Tudor Evans, a passenger, died in the incident which saw two trains crash near Llanbrynmair, Powys, on Monday night. It also resulted in 15 people being taken to hospital following the collision.

A man who died after the train he was travelling on collided with another train in mid Wales has been named locally as Tudor Evans. He was in his 60s and from the Aberystwyth area of Ceredigion. Four other people were seriously injured in the crash near Llanbrynmair,

Excluded from the muted coverage of the crash is any reference to the job cutting offensive Network Rail mounted against its own workforce under the guise of “modernising maintenance”.

Investigators probing a fatal train crash in Wales have discovered evidence indicating one of the trains may have slid while attempting to brake. The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) noted that the track conditions near the collision site led to “relatively low” adhesion between wheels and rails.

It is believed the 6.31pm service from Shrewsbury to Aberystwyth travelled beyond where it should have stopped and hit the stationary 7.09pm service from Machynlleth to Shrewsbury

One passenger is dead and 15 others were injured when two trains in mid Wales collided, officials said Tuesday.

Tudor Evans, 66, was killed when passengers were thrown across a carriage in the horror smash on Monday evening. He and his wife Rachel had “just begun to travel after many years of work"

The first head-on collision in the UK this century, as told by rail investigators, occurred between the Welsh villages of Talerddig and Llanbrynmair