A FAULTY set of points was the “immediate cause” of the fatal Cumbria train derailment, an interim accident report said last night.

Virgin Trains boss Richard Branson said today that the cause of the Cumbrian train crash in England was a defective line.

One woman died and 12 passengers were seriously injured when a intercity train derailed while travelling at 95mph in Cumbria in the UK.

All nine carriages on a high-speed tilting train containing around 200 people derailed in Cumbria last night, leaving passengers injured and trapped.