Sweden: X2000 'crash' at Malmo station

[jon0844]

http://www.thelocal.se/31190/20110101/

The station is currently being rebuilt, but goodness knows how this could have happened! There aren't enough X2000's as it is, and this one now looks quite a mess.

The train was empty and being reversed. I am sure the driver, when released from hospital, is going to have some explaining to do.

 

[At_traction]

http://www.thelocal.se/31190/20110101/

The station is currently being rebuilt, but goodness knows how this could have happened! There aren't enough X2000's as it is, and this one now looks quite a mess.

The train was empty and being reversed. I am sure the driver, when released from hospital, is going to have some explaining to do.

It's so difficult to estimate the buffers' location from the loco...

(That's nothing, in 2008(?) in Helsinki in neighbouring Finland a slew of runaway (empty) duplex passenger carriages slid down a grade towards the terminal station, over the buffers and through a concrete wall into a hotel meeting room. Luckily, the room was not yet occupied. Had the carriages not been diverted towards the hotel, they would have plunged into the station proper.)

There was a link on the Swedish paper to a further article...

"The two locomotives were constructed in the middle of the 1950s and are currently equipped with a heavy duty snowplough in order to perform their task."

Hmm. Mid-1950s mainline electrics and still going strong, so no smug humorous parallel to be drawn there.

 

[starrymarkb]

Hmm. Mid-1950s mainline electrics and still going strong, so no smug humorous parallel to be drawn there.

Try the Deh 4/6 and 4/4 on the Zentralbahn - some are still in use and they were new in 1941*

*though not front line anymore, the ZB received a batch of custom Stadler units to replace the 4/4s on the valley locals, and the 4/6s are generally spares for if one of the newer HGe 4/4s is out of action for the rack sections. Though the Brunig services are going over to unit** operation from 2013 with the HGe's going to replace older units on the Engleberg route now the new tunnel is finished***


**Another custom Stadler build - 7 car units with resturant!

***the tunnel reduces the gradient to 1 in 8 allowing loco haulage rather then 1 in 4 (which requires locomotive/motor car to be at the bottom)

 

[GB]

From the comments....

Having a good knowledge of the rail industry it is against the rules (in England) to propel (drive from anywhere other than the leading cab) a train on an open track let alone onto the stop blocks. He will be instantly fired if nothing else

His knowledge can't be that good then.

 

[At_traction]

From the comments....
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His knowledge can't be that good then.

So, either a railyard hump is not "open track" or pushing goods wagons down it is forbidden.

*Humps and shoves it*

 

[Peter Mugridge]

I can think of at least one daily propelling movement ( with a pilotman at the front end ) for a short distance on a main line in this country, using passenger stock being moved ecs between the station and a nearby depot.

 

[daikilo]

I can think of at least one daily propelling movement ( with a pilotman at the front end ) for a short distance on a main line in this country, using passenger stock being moved ecs between the station and a nearby depot.

Propelling with a driver in the rear (power unit or car) is regular but requires a person at the front of or in front of the train to provide hand or other signals. Has been done for decades.

The photo suggests that the contact with the buffers was high energy which suggests that normal procedures for such a move were not being followed. I hope investigation will identify the reason.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Sorry, should have made clear that I was following on from the comments in the two posts above mine pointing out that the person on the news website didn't have a clue and not remarklng on the actual crash.