Railway accident in Cologne-Mülheim
The railway accident in Cologne-Mülheim was a rear-end collision between a luxury train and a military transport in Cologne-Mülheim station on March 30, 1910. 22 people died.
Starting position
A train from Düsseldorf transported the military to Metz . The train consisted of Prussian compartment cars , mostly 3rd class . The track on which he was supposed to drive through the Cologne-Mülheim station was still occupied, so he came to a stop in front of the platform .
He was followed by a Lloyd Express , a luxury train, the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits , which only led the (old) first class and next to the locomotive and its train tender of two sleeping cars , a dining car , a company car and a baggage car was. It operated on the ships of the North German Lloyd between Hamburg and Genoa .
the accident
The locomotive driver of the express train overlooked the "stop" position of the signal that was supposed to secure the waiting military transport train to the rear. He drove into the end of the train. Prussian compartment cars were not very stable in the event of a collision due to the numerous doors in the side walls. The last wagons of the military transport train were therefore badly damaged.
consequences
22 soldiers died, 55 or 56 were also injured. There weren't even any injuries in the approaching Lloyd train.
literature
- Bernhard Püschel: Historical railway disasters. A chronicle of accidents from 1840 to 1926 . Freiburg 1977. ISBN 3-88255-838-5
Remarks
- ^ Peter WB Semmens: Catastrophes on rails. A worldwide documentation. Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71030-3 , p. 37, states Mülheim an der Ruhr as the location of the accident .