Railway accident in Ludwigshafen (1901)

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Sketch of the location of the old Ludwigshafen central station
The locomotive in the harbor basin

In the railway accident in Ludwigshafen on May 9, 1901, a locomotive ran over the buffer stop in the former Ludwigshafen station , broke through the front wall of the terminal station and landed in the winter harbor . One dead and two injured were the result.

the accident

On May 9, 1901, the locomotive "Schutter" (class A13 ) of the express train No. 40 from Basel via Strasbourg to Berlin ran over the buffer stop because the brakes were defective and the engine driver had failed to test the brakes beforehand. The locomotive, the tender , the baggage car , the mail car and a passenger car drove over the cross platform , pierced the wall of the reception building , crossed the 24-meter-wide street in front of it, broke through the railing of the Ludwigshafen port railway, which runs across here, and made their way through the Freight wagons parked there as far as the basin of the Ludwigshafen Rhine harbor , where the locomotive sank.

consequences

An uninvolved passerby was killed. The engine driver was seriously injured, another railway employee was slightly injured.

The accident was a “picture book” head-end station accident, the safety-related deficiency of this type of construction only became relevant due to the faster and larger trains at the turn of the century. The most sensational accident of this kind had already occurred in 1895 in Gare Montparnasse in Paris ( railway accident at Gare Montparnasse ) , and the same happened in December 1901 in the railway accident in Frankfurt Central Station .

literature

  • Albert Mühl: The Pfalzbahn . Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-8062-0301-6 , p. 136.
  • Ludwig Ritter von Stockert : Railway accidents. A contribution to railway operations theory. , Vol. 1. Leipzig 1913, pp. 205 f., No. 94.
  • Hans Joachim Ritzau: Railway disasters in Germany. Splinters of German history . Vol. 1: Landsberg-Pürgen 1979, p. 69.

Remarks

  1. ^ Ritzau: Eisenbahn-Katastrophen , mentions May 10, 1901 as the date of the accident.
  2. ↑ Mühl, however, states that the accident happened “as a result of delayed braking”.
  3. ^ Photo in: Ludwig von Stockert : Railway accidents. A contribution to railway operations theory. , Vol. 2. Leipzig 1913, Fig. 54.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stockert: Railway accidents .

Coordinates: 49 ° 28 ′ 59.9 "  N , 8 ° 26 ′ 56.7"  E