Removal of parts of the special wagon began yesterday
Trains continue to run through 2 free tracks
I found a longer article on 24ur.com about the works at the station:
Two weeks after the accident, the nearly 300-ton transformer is still lying upside down next to the railway station in Zidan Most, while workers are using two freight elevators to remove parts of the wagon on which it was loaded. A 1,000-ton crane will be delivered from Austria to lift the load - which, together with the frame, weighs as much as 380 tons. Director of SŽ-Infrastructure Matjaž Kranjc clarified the details.
In Zidan Most, they started removing the wreckage two weeks after the train accident, when a wagon with a 300-ton substation overturned. "Today, all parts of the wagons on which the cargo
was transported are being collected. We expect that during today and tomorrow, by Sunday at the latest, all parts will be removed, only the transformer will remain," said the director of SŽ. -Infrastructure Matjaž Kranjc.
In order to disrupt traffic as little as possible, the works take place in breaks between train arrivals, delays are minimal, he added.
The biggest job, the transformer weighing 290 tons, which together with the special construction weighs an additional 90 tons, is expected next weekend. Until then, it is necessary to carry out a series of preparatory works so that the lifting is safe and the load is not damaged, said Kranjc.
An Austrian company will take care of the lifting, and next week a 1000-ton crane will arrive in Zidana Most. "According to our information, it is about 25 tractors of extraordinary cargo," said Kranjc. Compilation should have taken two days.
But everything must be prepared earlier, he added. First remove the wagon parts, then remove the track on track 3 in the length of the transformer, prepare the plateau, then bring in and install the elevator. The transmission line will also have to be removed, which will otherwise be disconnected from the network from today until Sunday, when the wagon is lifted.
The transformer will be raised to the plateau, where the elevator will stand, and then they will have to repair the rails, along which the new specially adapted train will arrive. A load will be lifted on it, and according to information from Kranjec, it should not continue its journey, but will be returned to the factory.
Let's remember. The accident happened on the night of January 6-7. A substation weighing several hundred tons slipped off one of the wagons and tore off the cabin of the wagon that rumbled down the Sava embankment. A Czech citizen was seriously injured in the accident.
Railway traffic near the Brick Bridge should run without problems in the first week of February.
The damage to the fleet is estimated between 200 and 250 thousand euros, but the final bill will be much higher. "The biggest damage in this whole event is all the preparatory measures and measures for lifting the load, what will happen in the end, it is difficult to forecast at this moment," said Kranjec. He is convinced that the person responsible for the accident will have to pay for it, or that the insurance company will pay for it in the end.
The investigation is still ongoing. "We know that the train stopped eight meters before it overturned, that it moved stepwise and that the load was being pulled. It is a load whose volume exceeds the load profile of the track, so the wagon is adapted to allow the load to be moved to the left and right, it is pulled on columns of the rolling stock, platforms, signals, and during this movement, the load's balance is disturbed and it falls on the track," Kranjc described the events that led to the accident.
"Five transformers of this size were transported via the same route over Zidan Most. The team that carried out the transport already successfully transported four, the other team had one, and the sixth overturned," said Kranjc.
