Train Crash In Switzerland

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20968418

Double Swiss train crash: 17 people injured

10 January 2013 Last updated at 10:59 Help Seventeen people have been injured in a double train crash in northern Switzerland during rush hour, according to police.

The accident happened near the station at Neuhausen-am-Rheinfall shortly before 0800 (0700 GMT) between a train travelling from Winterthur and another from Schaffhausen.

The BBC's Imogen Foulkes said the trains crashed side on, with the engine of one train crashing into the carriages of another.

 

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20968418

There's an article with a picture and a map in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung :

http://www.nzz.ch/aktuell/panorama/neuhausen-zugunglueck-zusammenstoss-polizei-1.17931295

 

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The EMU (from Winterthur) is a Stadler lightweight (I think). Reversible double track splitting into two single tracks at the point of collision.

Looks from photos as though the Re4/4 and D/D stock on the SH-Zurich train had the road, but that may be prejudging it.

 

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The EMU (from Winterthur) is a Stadler lightweight (I think). Reversible double track splitting into two single tracks at the point of collision.

Looks from photos as though the Re4/4 and D/D stock on the SH-Zurich train had the road, but that may be prejudging it.

http://rt.com/news/trains-collide-northern-switzerland-696/ has some good photos, in one of the you can see the training points set for the loco, but just because points are set does not mean the route/signal is.

 

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Which is why I said we mustnt prejudge.

Having said that, basic signalling principles would leave the points "normal" for the straight route, the more so with it being the end of a single-track section (or rather two parallel ones).