Three power outages within two days: At the Zurich main railway station, it has become this week, strangely enough, three times is dark. On Tuesday morning, the lights went out in the Morning, on Wednesday in the early afternoon and in the evening.
Meanwhile, the causes for the frequent failures are the SBB known. Two of them had an indirect connection, said SBB spokesman Christian Ginsig.
The first power outage on Tuesday morning, is the responsibility of the electricity plant in the city of Zurich (EWZ). The artisans have carried out the service work. The power outage lasted for around half an hour. The EWZ is for the power in the building of the main railway station is responsible, but not for the power of the towed net. Therefore, there were no problems with the trains.
construction and emergency generator Test
caused The power outages on Wednesday the SBB itself. During planned construction, that there was a faulty circuit and therefore to the power failure, says SBB-spokesman Ginsig. This took longer, about 50 minutes. That it became on Wednesday evening, again dark, are also responsible for the SBB. You have tested your emergency generator.
The SBB to make this Test regularly once in a month. On Wednesday, he took a few minutes, as Ginsig says. Due to the prolonged power outage in the afternoon you have preferred this routine to test something. The Power failure on Wednesday at least has shown something Positive: “The emergency power supply works well.”
(Tages-Anzeiger)
Created: 13.12.2018, 12:05 PM
