Railway accident in Lampertheim

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In the railway accident in Lampertheim on August 12, 1965, the TEE 77 “ Helvetia ” collided with the end of a freight train that was not free of profile in the Lampertheim station . Four people died.

Starting position

The TEE 77 “Helvetia” traveled from Zurich main station to Hamburg with around 85 passengers at 120–140 km / h on the Riedbahn . Since the previous schedule change was train from newly supplied cars for TEE service formed of an electric locomotive of the series E 10 were pulled after the connection of Basel to Hamburg continuously electrified was.

In front of the TEE, traveling in the same direction, was the Dg 6621 freight train, which the TEE was supposed to overtake in Lampertheim. The freight train was therefore directed to an overtaking track .

Lampertheim station had a mechanical signal box . Before the dispatcher was allowed to allow a train ride here , he had to make sure that the section of the route was free up to the corresponding border signs .

the accident

The freight train did not pull far enough forward in the passing track so that its last car was still sticking out into the clearance profile of the through track. The dispatcher failed to check whether the profile freedom was given before he allowed the TEE passage.

The engine driver of the Trans-Europ-Express recognized the danger and initiated an emergency stop . However, this was no longer sufficient to prevent the collision with the freight car , which occurred at 11:35 a.m. The locomotive and all seven passenger cars of the Trans-Europ-Express derailed , were partially slashed by the last freight car and some overturned. Some of the freight wagons also derailed due to the impact of the Trans-Europ-Express. The superstructure was also badly damaged.

consequences

Four people died. In addition, six were seriously injured and 39 were slightly injured. Among them were six Swiss, five US and one Danish citizens. Since the doors jammed after the collision, the passengers had to break free by breaking the windows. On the locomotive was great material damage, a passenger car of the genus Ap4üm-62 had to be scrapped. The property damage amounted to 2.5 million DM .

The dispatcher was from Darmstadt District Court to a prison sentence of 7 months on probation convicted.

literature

  • Peter Goette: TEE trains in Germany . Freiburg 2008. ISBN 978-3-88255-698-8 , p. 83.
  • Hans-Joachim Ritzau, Jürgen Höstel: The disaster scenes of the present = railway accidents in Germany, Vol. 2. Pürgen 1983. ISBN 3-921304-50-4 , p. 116.
  • Ascanio Schneider u. Armin Masé: Disasters on the rails. Railway accidents, their causes and consequences . Zurich 1968, p. 175f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bundestag printed paper IV / 3799: Oral inquiries in accordance with Section 111 of the Rules of Procedure (Question Time) for the period from July 20 to October 15, 1965, as well as the written answers given (PDF; 1.6 MB).
  2. ↑ Other sources give different numbers: nahraum ( Memento of the original from November 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. and chroniknet : 3 dead and 55 injured; New Germany : 3 dead and 43 injured. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nahraum.de
  3. ^ Ritzau: disaster scenes .

Coordinates: 49 ° 35 ′ 38 "  N , 8 ° 28 ′ 49.3"  E