train accident in Switzerland

[bikkuri bahn]

developing news:

http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/two-trains-crash-in-switzerland-five-injured-1.2245054

 

 

a "subway train"!? :blink: (see below)

 

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/two-swiss-passenger-trains-collide-leaving-passengers-injured/article23111157/

[railsquid]

a "subway train"!? :blink: (see below)

 

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/two-swiss-passenger-trains-collide-leaving-passengers-injured/article23111157/

 

Probably a horrendous mistranslation of "S-Bahn".

 

Slightly more local report:

http://www.nzz.ch/zuerich/unfall-zug-rafz-1.18487271

[stevenh]

Seems they were heading NE and crossing over this bridge?

https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/Rafz,+Switzerland/@47.6055841,8.5467563,192m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x479079dc5ec7b3b1:0xc8dc034d417f8d95

 

All lines converge to one... I imagine they hit pretty much head-to-head on the point (quite a long one) and then both ploughed forward?

Luckily none dropped to the roadway below.

Edited February 20, 2015 by stevenh

[bikkuri bahn]

As usual the English language sources are completely worthless regarding details (and now this event is completely out of the news cycle in the Anglophone world).  According to a Swiss source, the driver trainee and supervisor on the S-Bahn train may have misread a starting signal, reading a green aspect on an adjacent track when the one governing their route was red.  Coupled with the signal layout at this station (I'm not sure if I read this correctly but)...when a train reverses at this station, there is a gap until the first signal where there is no ATS in operation.

 

http://www.blick.ch/news/schweiz/zuerich/moegliche-ursache-fuer-crash-in-rafz-zh-hat-der-lokfuehrer-das-signal-verwechselt-id3507636.html