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On Friday evening, a 600-meter-long freight train hit a convoy of stationary wagons at the Container Terminal in Herne, in Western Germany, 20 km from Essen. Nobody got injured, but the wagons got damaged. The terminal is expected to stay closed until at least Tuesday in order to allow the removal of the two convoys.
The train, coming from the Czech Republic and travelling at a speed of around 15 km/h, hit the stationary convoy, causing the destruction or damaging of several loaded freight cars. The only person involved in the accident was the train conductor, who managed to jump out of the locomotive before the impact. The locomotive was destroyed together with 15 to 20 containers. Read more
Source: RAILFREIGHT.COM
