London Banter - View Single Post - Complete (almost) Shutdown of Berlin Train System

[email protected] · January 3rd 12, 01:01 PM posted to uk.transport.london

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lid (Lüko Willms) wrote:

Am 03.01.2012 10:53, schrieb Neil Williams:
Are we talking about the ICE-1 or the ICE-3?

ICE1 - the wheel design that caused Eschede.

That was still mainly designed in the Bundesbahn offices.

The ICE-1 ub their beginnings made a rattling noise in the cabins,
and DB tried to do away this noise. And then they had a lack of
maintenence and a passenger who did not pull the emergency brake when
part of the wheel tyre (of steel) shot up in front of his seat, and
then there was this nasty bridge which collapsed over the train...

A number of bad circumstances came together to produce a horrible
accident.

The worst rail accidents all seem to have been aggravated by a limited
disaster leading to a greater one, e.g. the wheel breaking up just before a
bridge which then collapsed at Eschede, the train coming the other way at
Great Heck, the other trains at Harrow.

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Colin Rosenstiel