Huddinge rail accident

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The damaged locomotive of the passenger train
Artist's impression of the collision

The Huddinge railway accident occurred on September 19, 1908 in the Huddinge municipality south of Stockholm in Sweden .

the accident

On the Västra stambana , which was still single-track at the time , the freight train No. 1022 traveling towards Stockholm waited at Huddinge station for the oncoming train to Malmö . Another train, the express train No. 11, followed this, but the driver of the freight train knew nothing about it.

He ignored the “stop” signal and continued his journey north. 500 meters north of the station in a slight left-hand bend, he collided with the express train, which caused considerable property damage of SEK 210,000 , but only minor personal injury.

Three passengers and a conductor were injured. The freight train steam locomotive was torn off the train and sank in the mud below the embankment. A postcard was made of the passenger locomotive with a photo of the damage; another postcard with the simulated collision.

consequences

Play equipment in the form of a locomotive in Långsjöparken with a shifted terrain profile

The recovery of the freight locomotive was considered too difficult and was eventually given up.

The second track in this section had already been laid, but had not yet been released because it was still under construction. Remnants of the locomotive were only "rediscovered" when the two more parallel tracks were built in 1987.

The accident had a special meaning for the railway union founded in the same year, which according to its statutes had to deal with this case.

The union argued that the night signals, some of which serve as stop signals for trains in stations and some as departure signals, should not be given with the same light as the signal lamps. This argument supported the Svenska Järnvägs föreningen (Swedish Railway Association).

In a report by the professor of physiology at Uppsala University , Hjalmar Öhrwall (1851–1929), he stated that the same sign was unsuitable for stopping and driving.

Commemoration

In memory of this accident, a model of a locomotive was set up as a climbing device at the nearby Långsjöparken amusement park , which seems to sink into the ground.

Web links

Commons : Järnvägsolyckan i Huddinge 1908  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Inga Lantz, Vänsterpartiet and others: Om dubbelspår på järnvägssträckan Älvsjö-Fiemingsberg. In: riksdagen.se. January 21, 1980, p. 12 , accessed September 4, 2019 (Swedish).
  2. ↑ Med ånga och elektricitet. Minneskrift with anledning of 25-days of the Sveriges Lokomotivmannaförb. Commemorative publication on the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Swedish Engine Drivers Association Stockholm in 1933

Coordinates: 59 ° 14 ′ 30.8 ″  N , 17 ° 59 ′ 13 ″  E