BLS Cargotrain hits piece of a bridge on the Rhinetal line near Freiburg

[Yavianice]

https://www.blick.ch/news/bahnunglueck-bls-gueterzug-entgleist-in-deutschland-nahe-basel-id15827550.html

 

Not sure how it happened but it crashed into a bridge which was under construction. Last time such an accident occurred it caused a massive disruption for pretty much all cargo traffic between the Ruhrgebiet and Italy. Now with the coronavirus crisis, hopefully the impact will be less severe.

Edited April 5, 2020 by disturbman

[Suica]

This could've been so much worse. ICE trains use this line...

DB Netze was tweeting about the construction and several tweets regarding the bridge in question, one of which showing pictures of the bridge one day before this accident, have since been removed.

Edit: The deleted tweet still available in the Wayback Machine

Edited April 3, 2020 by Suica

[chadbag]

10 hours ago, Yavianice said:

https://www.blick.ch/news/bahnunglueck-bls-gueterzug-entgleist-in-deutschland-nahe-basel-id15827550.html

 

 

The accident is very unfortunate.  Condolences to the train driver who lost his life and to the injured truck drivers who were passengers (as the train is a "rolling highway" ferrying trucks and their drivers).

 

Of interest in the above link, is that the news video embedded is from Switzerland, and the guy was speaking a form of Swiss German.  Which is very interesting.  I got most of it (so I suspect he was speaking Swiss German dialectual pronunciation and accent with perhaps more High German grammar and/or vocabulary?)

Edited April 3, 2020 by chadbag

[ben_issacs]

I assume that the slab lying flat beside the loco was part of the bridge, if so the loco must have deralied before it hit the bridge.

 

Bill

Melbourne

 

[Yavianice]

Like with the previous accident, goods rail traffic is diverted over the Schaffhausen/Stuttgart line. Partial rerouting will also be done over France.

 

By sheer coincidence the train was photographed by a train spotter minutes before it crashed.

 

apologies but it’s a Facebook link. But you don’t need an account to view it.

 

 

 

[miyakoji]

On 4/3/2020 at 6:54 PM, ben_issacs said:

I assume that the slab lying flat beside the loco was part of the bridge, if so the loco must have deralied before it hit the bridge.

 

Bill

Melbourne

 

There are some photos that show the bridge, maybe 10 car lengths back.  There appears to be damage to the parallel track, I assume this is from the train pushing the slab.

 

The train may not be on its track, but it's not fouling the other track.  It didn't dramatically derail and hit lineside bridge pylons, for example.  Based on this photo it seems like the slab was on the track for some reason.  Looks like the trailer carriers slid under the passenger car in the second position and maybe the loco itself.

[disturbman]

The piece fell from the bridge moments before the train passed.

 

https://www.railfreight.com/railfreight/2020/04/03/freight-train-in-germany-derails-and-runs-into-bridge/?

 

The pictures are a bit harrowing. You can see how frontal the crash was and how speed was partially absorbed by the loco and the passenger car.