Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Rail crashes on single lines

The major rail crash that occurred in southern Italy yesterday has certain similarities with the crash that happened in southern Germany in February.

Yesterday's crash happened on a single line and the train is owned by the private company Ferrotramviara.

The crash in Bavaria earlier this year also happened on a single line and the train was owned and operated by the privately owned company Transdev.

Modern signalling means that fail-safe systems are in place across Europe.

2 comments:

Thomas G McCarthy said...

Tragically, it seems government decided recently to postpone, again, the building of a second line on that stretch of railway, although the money has long ago been provided by the European Union.

Póló said...

You can't beat the old staff system.

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