Railway accident at Meerbusch-Osterath
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| Route number (DB) : | 2610 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top speed: | 140 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Train control : | FV-DB, PZB 90 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Meerbusch-Osterath railway accident occurred on December 5, 2017, when the Rhein-Münsterland-Express RE 7 collided with a freight train in front of it . More than 40 people were injured, some seriously.
Starting position
Infrastructure
The railway accident occurred on the left Lower Rhine line of the DB Netz ( VzG line 2610), a double-track electrified main line , between Neuss main station and Krefeld main station shortly before kilometer 42.0. In the accident area, the route lay in a straight line and the maximum permissible speed was 140 km / h. The operating procedure was train reporting according to the driving service regulations (FV-DB). The train control system was PZB 90 .
The interlockings involved were:
- the electromechanical interlocking type E43 Abzw Weißenberg and
- the relay interlocking of the type SpDr L60 Meerbusch-Osterath Of (Osterath dispatcher).
The route between the two operations was equipped with a route block. The automatic block signal (Sbk) 201 was the responsibility of the Weißenberg dispatcher .
Vehicles involved
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The not involved in the collision freight train 95307 from Rhein Cargo went on in a northerly direction Krefeld to.
It was followed in the same direction of travel by the GM 48714 freight train ( Dillingen (Saar) - Rotterdam-Maasvlakte ), which carried empty bulk goods wagons (Falrrs) for transporting ore. One unit of this car consists of two six-axle vehicles that are connected to one another via a close coupling . There are automatic central buffer couplings at the ends of each unit . The freight train GM 48714 had to stop in front of the entry signal A of the Meerbusch-Osterath station at km 42.4 because the block section in front of it had not yet been cleared by the freight train 95307.
The following passenger train DPN 32547 ( Rhein-Münsterland-Express , RE 7, Rheine-Cologne-Krefeld), consisted of two 5-part multiple units type Talent 2 (series 9442/9443) of the railway transport company National Express Rail GmbH . 173 passengers traveled on the train . The front multiple unit had the road number 361, the rear the road number 374.
the accident
The dispatcher in Meerbusch-Osterath confused the train number of the GM 48714 freight train with that of the 95307 freight train. By entering the incorrect number in the train number reporting system, the train was deleted in the section in which it was located. The dispatcher in Meerbusch-Osterath and her colleague in the rear signal box in Weißenberg both assumed that the corresponding section of the route was free. Since the automatic block signal (SBK) 201 that the Zugfolgeabschnitt , protected, in which the freight train was standing against the following train, but was still blocked by standing there freight GM 48714, the dispatcher manager in White Mountain came from a technical fault and allowed the The Regional Express drives past the stop signal as a train journey with a special order . To do this, she used the substitute signal (Zs 1). However, she failed to give the driver the command to drive on sight , which would have limited the driver to a maximum speed of 40 km / h. Assuming that the line in front of him was free, he accelerated up to 120 km / h before he noticed the freight train in front of him on the track. This had just started again. The driver of the passenger train initiated an emergency brake , fled to the rear and warned the passengers. At 7:27 p.m., the multiple unit hit the freight train at around 85 km / h. Three wagons of the freight train were badly damaged, two were thrown sideways into the adjacent field and the main air line to the front part of the train was torn. The freight train stopped shortly afterwards. The first part of the approaching Talent 2 multiple unit 361 buckled in its longitudinal axis, derailed and was badly damaged. Its driver's cab , designed in accordance with the crash safety standard DIN EN 15227 , remained relatively intact in the collision.
consequences
One person was life-threatening, seven seriously and 33 slightly injured.
An alarm with the keyword mass casualty was raised. Rescuing the passengers turned out to be difficult because the overhead line was torn down in the accident . Even after the overhead line was switched off immediately , the emergency services were not allowed to step onto the tracks because the overhead line was not yet grounded . It therefore took 105 minutes before the rescue workers could board the train and provide assistance. The recovery of the injured lasted until around midnight. After the accident, the route remained closed until December 16, but also because of other planned construction work.
It was evident that the passenger train should not have been allowed to run in the affected section, which the Federal Agency for Railway Accident Investigation (BEU) announced. On October 16, 2018, the public prosecutor and federal police published their report on the results of their investigations into the accident.
The following investigation against the two dispatchers was ended in 2019 by a penalty order with a fine .
literature
- schr: Investigations into the rear-end collision in Meerbusch . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 12/2018, p. 610.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c d e f Sebastian Schrader: Violent collision between two trains in North Rhine-Westphalia . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 1/2018, p. 23.
- ↑ dybas - Güterwagen DB AG - F. Retrieved on December 17, 2017 .
- ↑ Train accident in NRW - 173 people affected . ZDF, December 6, 2017
- ↑ a b c d schr: Investigations into the rear-end collision in Meerbusch . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 12/2018, p. 610.
- ^ Train accident in Meerbusch: train driver received a transport order , General-Anzeiger Bonn, December 7, 2017.
- ^ BPOL NRW: Joint press release by the Düsseldorf Public Prosecutor and the NRW Federal Police on the train accident in Meerbusch. October 16, 2018, accessed October 16, 2018 .
- ↑ Trains collision, 05-12-17, Awst Weissenberg - Meerbusch-Osterath (Germany) European Railway Accident Information Links. Retrieved December 7, 2017
- ↑ Train accident near Neuss: Passenger train ran despite the closure . Nordbayern.de, December 5, 2017
- ^ Train accident near Neuss - passenger train on the wrong track ZDF, December 6, 2017
- ↑ schr: Accidents in Meerbusch and Aichach: Criminal orders instead of court hearings . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 3/2019, p. 114.
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 '35.3 " N , 6 ° 37' 59.2" E