emergency brake

Scottish Finance Secretary Shona Robison ordered the emergency brake on spending in a letter to cabinet colleagues earlier this week.

His firm makes magnets that are used in all kinds of systems - from cochlear implants, to emergency brakes on rollercoasters, including at Alton Towers.

“And things continued to kind of tick off the list. And then I kind of hit the emergency brake.”

When he was 18m from the crossing, the driver applied the emergency brake, which caused a warning horn to sound.

The court heard the train's emergency brakes had to be applied.