Port-d'Atelier railway accident
In the railway accident of Port-d'Atelier on 19 February 1949 collided a fast train in the station of Port-d'Atelier (later Port-d'Atelier-Amance ), in today's municipality of Amance , Haute-Saône , with a Small locomotive . 43 people died.
Starting position
The express train was on its way from Nancy to Dijon . The steam locomotive was followed by a baggage car in modern steel construction, then two older passenger cars with a wooden structure and then a post office car , again in modern steel construction.
the accident
The train collided with the small locomotive. Due to the delay that occurred, the wooden superstructures of the second and third wagons of the train between the two steel wagons were smashed.
consequences
43 people died. The locomotive driver, who was seriously injured in the head and by escaping steam in the accident , put out blasting caps to secure the train to the rear before he succumbed to his injuries.
literature
- Peter WB Semmens: Disasters on the rails. A worldwide documentation. Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71030-3 .
Remarks
- ↑ Semmens gives the misspelling “Pont-d'Atelier”.