The ICE from Berlin is likely to be derailed a week ago because of a converted Soft in Basel. This is the assessment of the safety investigation Saib place.
Due to the bad image it was to be assumed that the front part of the train was driving over the right Rail, said Christoph Kupper of the Saib on Sunday against the “tagesschau” of SRF. Then I switched in the first car after the engine head, the Soft. The Rest of the train went on, consequently, on the left-hand Rail. Kupper head of Railways and ships in the Saib.
Possible reasons for the changeover, according to Kupper two: for example, the electrical Monitoring of the switch could not have worked. Or it was triggered accidentally.
Stop short in front of a wall
The roughly 240 passengers in the ICE 373 lucky to have had last Sunday. The train was derailed on the way from Berlin to Interlaken, as against 20.50 between the Badischer Bahnhof train station and the train station of Basel, SBB the front-most car. The drive head – the locomotive and the first car jumped off the rails.
The car, the cross between the two rail pairs, was dragged 800 meters, and came only about twenty meters in front of a separation wall to a halt. The locomotive reaching the Tunnel between the open section after the bridge over the Rhine, and the SBB train station, as she came to a halt. Seriously, no one was hurt; one Person went to the ambulance.
by the end of November 2017, when the derailment of a German ICE train in Basel, a large property was damage. The train derailed in the early evening at the entrance to the SBB train station. At that time three wagons of the train from Hamburg derailed. 500 passengers were able to leave the car unharmed. After the accident, the whole station due to a Power failure for two hours at a complete standstill. The investigation to the Saib. (nag/sda)
Created: 24.02.2019, 13:45 PM
