Train derailments

[mproca 0]

Monday in Romania we had a black day 3 train accidents no one died just few injuries. so trains are still the safest.

One major problem is that infrastructure is old. The other one is stealing. 

http://www.bucharestherald.com/dailyevents/41-dailyevents/5864--un-tren-s-a-rasturnat-la-craiova-cu-300-de-persoane-la-bord-15-raniti-si-pagube-estimate-la-5-mil-euro-posibil-act-criminal-

http://www.bucharestherald.com/dailyevents/41-dailyevents/5888-a-train-transporting-petrol-and-diesel-derailed-in-cluj-around-2000-tonnes-of-fuel-wasted

The 3rd one: One truck was hit by a "train" a mirror one.

And i head about an accident in Italy. A train driver passed a red signal, pulled the emergency then derailed.

[JakeMD 107]

We've only had a couple of vehicles hit by trains in my town. One was a truck with a camper on it, so that made a huge mess.. I think one person died. 

There's 5 total crossings, 3 of which are in downtown.  The BNSF trains run through at about 1 every 30-45 minutes during the day, and one every 15 minutes at night.

[mproca 0]

We had some cars crashed by trains too... about 10-15 in the last year... with many deads (from the cars only). Here is the drivers fault. They don't respect the red signal and pass the rails in front of the trains. In this case i preffer to be in a train... Anyway... trains are much better than anything.

[Fee_Nicks 7]

Seeing as the rail crossings in our town all go above or below the actual rail line, that kinda lowers the chances of a derailment happening nearby.

Given that the 2 nearest crossings go under, and that one is rather cramped and steep - well, lets say that trucks really shouldn't go through it, lest the tops of the trailer gets ripped off (yes, that has happened. Multiple times).

No train crashes, thankfully.

[thepokemaniac 18]

In Knoxville, there was one last week.

[k4driver 0]

no derailments in my town....just a lot of tractor trailers getting destroyed on an unprotected crossing IN TOWN!

[Duke87 1,070]

Um... wow, the translation on that article really needs work.

The fast train Timisoara-Bucharestquote>

"The Timisoara-Bucharest express train". I suppose express trains are supposed to be fast, but then there's still the matter of the word order...

derailed few minutes after leaving the Train Stationquote>

They say "few minutes". They no doubt meant "a few minutes". Subtleties can really change the meaning.

so the locomotive and the eight trucksquote>

I assume they must be talking about what in this part of the world we would refer to as "cars". "Trucks" does mean something (different) in American railway terminology, though. It means the parts with the wheels attatched to them that swivel with respect to the car body.

You know, these things:

15 people were transported to the hospital.quote>

So did Scotty beam them there or were they "taken to the hospital"?

is  aquote>

Nitpick, but there's an extra space there.

he approximately 300 passagers who were in the train were evictedquote>

"Evicted". They didn't pay their rent and they're getting kicked out. Yeah, "evacuated" would be the more typical word.

with the help of the gendarmes. quote>

"Gendarmes"? What the hell are... *consults google* ...oh, they mean the police.

Most of the passagers were embarked in busses,quote>

"Embarked in"... "loaded onto", I guess? Oh, and they misspelled "buses".

reached Caracal and were taken over byquote>

"Taken over". Now there's an awkward choice of phrase.

a rapid trainquote>

Trying something new, but still not figuring out the word "express", I see.

Also, yikes, talk about faulty parallelisms.

A tragedy could have happened today on the railway and those who opened the railway knew how this can be done.quote>

Okay, you got me. I have no idea what that's supposed to mean.

The can with a special substance was also found.quote>

"The can with a special substance" must be a literal translation of what they call whatever it is in... Hungarian, I guess. Still, what is it?

verything is smered with oilquote>

...and they misspelled "smeared", too!

the screws have the initial shapequote>

An idiomatic expression translated literally, no doubt.

[mproca 0]

Well sorry for this very bad translation.... it's not mine... and for an news site it's very bad. (My english isn't so good too)...

What happened there? I think they want to cover something... the infrastructure is a bad and there are many thieves who destroy rails for money...

For passenger we have 4 types of trains:

(I used google so expect some funny names here)

Staff (this train stops in all stations and at most signals, it's very slow, and he doesn't have any priority. It is very good for short distances)

Accelerated or "Fast train" (this train stops in most major stations, it's fast, low comfort)

Fast train "2" (high comfort, faster than the fast train 1)

Intercity, Express, Night, International - trains (everyone should know them)

I usually like the first two of them due to the very low cost. For long distances fast trains are good enough and are much better than buses especially in the mountains.

The train involved in the accident was an Fast Train (or an Accelerated one) not the other Fast Train "2". (Here there are many confusions. Usually Fast Train "1" and "2" are just Fast trains for the world and that isn't really correct, since there are some comfort and speed differences)

They told us that it was not really an accident but rather an sabotage. Someone wanted a train off the rails and the lucky one who derailed was this fast train.

It derailed at about 10 minutest after leaving Craiova station monday at @ 2:30 in the morning.

The tran had 7-9 wagons transporting about 300-350 passengers. The passenger was taken by buses then by an Rapid train (or Fast train "2"). Only one of them was taken to a local hospital due to an panic attack.

The "driver of the locomotive" told us that he doesn't understood what really happened since the rails were clear, it was on a straight rails, no junctions, no obstacles, no red or yellow signals and the speed was lower than the limit for that area (~100/120km/h). And about 1:30h ago another train passed that area with no problems.

Maybe the rails wasn't fixed well and when the loco passed they "broken" under the heavy weight of the loco and that's why it derailed. That loco it's about 120tons weight.

The passengers were scared since the train stopped in emergency, overturned and the lights stopped at a sign. Just immagine an train accident in the night in the forest.

Still our rails are the safest in all the Europe... I think... In the last 14 years only one 17 years old girl died in a train crash last year Those accidends caused by cars doesn't count (but in all those cases only the people from the cars died, were injuried or even escaped). Someone stealed something from an rail junction and when the train passes it derailed at legal speed of ~70km/h

All we need are some funds for the old infrastructure, and maybe some new rolling stocks. And we need civilised people who doesn't destroy trains and rails.

edit: Gendarmes = better police

Gauge was modified ... they suppose it was smaller in that area...
I know my english isn't good so don't jump on me my grammar isn't the best. since it's my second language.

ONLY LIES anyway. No one would derail a train ever. ( those people who work in our rail system doesn't took the money for months... they are working for free? they are lying us. That train derailed due to some serious problems in rail infrastructure or due to the old rolling stock. I'm sure of that.

[sneakeypete 16]

Can't remember when a passanger died on QR's network. Trains crashing into trucks and killing the train drivers/truckies, on the other hand...

[Duke87 1,070]

Okay, so it's not just local and express. It's multi-tiered. Interesting.

As for gendarmes, yeah, we don't have those in the US. I suppose the closest thing we have is the FBI, but they're for criminal investigations only, they don't do emergency escorts or public patrols or anything like that, and they're not a military entity.

State police (or "state troopers", or "smokeys") probably more fill the role of what gendarmes actually do, but they're also not a military entity and they aren't a national entity, either.

[mproca 0]

Yes we have more types of trains Gendarmes... yes... they are watching over public safety and are used for raids.

About the freight train who derailed monday it's seem that the 2 locomotives were traveling at different speeds. I think the first one was slower than the last one. And the locomotive "drivers" were very tyred. Then driving a long train using 2 locos one in the front one in the back it's harder here since we can't use one "driver" for all of them like others.

[Albatross Domain 2]

We've had one recently near downtown San Antonio, the trailer was crossing...got caughtup on tracks... minor injuries... the engine slowed but blasted thru it...

[Duke87 1,070]

Yes, well, a train is not like a car. A car can stop from 100 km/h in about 75 meters. A train can take a kilometer or more to do that.

This is why at railroad crossings, street traffic must yield to trains. The train can't reasonably stop and wait for an opening.

And it's also why cars stuck on the tracks get hit by trains so much. By the time the motorman can see that there's someone on the line, it's already way too late to stop the train before a collision occurs.

[hamsterTK 93]

Man I hope there aren't any derailments where I live. That wouldn't be nice to have a tank car filled with chlorine tear open in the middle of the night. We have two busy rail lines converge right in the middle of town like a fork.They seem to be kept in good order though, they aren't overgrown with weeds like some rail lines I've seen.

I did see the aftermath of derailment once, it was a bunch of gravel cars that had gone off the rails and piled up in a big mess. The locomotives were unharmed and had detached from the rest of the train and parked along the line. This was in the Houston area back in the 1990's.