ICE accident with cargotrain between Amsterdam and Frankfurt on 11 Jan 2011.

Some pictures of the accident from the Dutch 3rail Forum (© Rutger):









And some days later at the biggest "rangeercomplex" (don't know what that is in English) of Europe (Kijfhoek (Netherlands)):





Maikel (RMW)

thanks for the video... I will have to make this a scene on my layout......I am constantly crashing my ICE's into my freight trains...

Here is the link to the relevant topic in Dutch.

What appears to have happened is that the thieves have taken wire from the track circuit. A track circuit detects wether a train is on a specific bit of track. Under normal circumstances the missing wire would have caused the signal to go red. HOwever, these thieves appear to have a good understanding of how these things work(and therefore the possible consequenses of their actions)

An empty container train ran over the affected point, and since this point could no longer detect the presence of a train, the block was cleared before the train had completely left it. the point was switched in preparation for the ICE to pass through, but because the other train was still on the points, the ICE, which had been given the go-ahead by the signal collided at low speed with the container train.

This is not an official report, only what the people in the above link have pieced together.

I hope these criminals will be caught and be made accountable for their actions. When will people learn the diffrence between what's theirs and what is someone else's

Kariosls

Kariosls,
Hum... If what you say is true, then this act might not be a simple theft at all. A re-wireing indicates an intent at deception along with a knowledge of the implication of their theft of the wire to the integrity of the system.

Starting to smell of intentional SABOTAGE. Yes?

If I am correct ICE 4564 belongs to NS Hispeed and not to DB Fernverkehr. Can anybody confirm?

Regards

Mike C

I don´t get it!
The videocamera man did not showed up the moment of crash!
What is that good for...???

I remember a club in Montreal a decade ago that thought it would be a cool idea to use electrostatic glass on the walls to the washrooms and toilet stalls. It was a great idea and received cool reviews until the first power failure, when everything could be seen in the emergency lighting.

Oops...

Mike C

Or...
The theft was done to cover up the intent of sabotage. Kind of like a hit man stealing the 'target's' wallet in an effort to make his actions look like a simple mugging gone wrong. Yes?

Theft of 300m (900+ feet) of copper wire, how much would that copper be worth??

Either way, it's not a good thing when people start ripping apart pieces of critical infrastructure.

Ok...some I'm paranoid and pessimistic :)


Regards,
Paul