I remember this rather vividly. (And this makes me feel old. Time rushes by.)
"Do you remember...?"
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Elyris
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20years ago ( June 3rd 1998)
I remember this rather vividly. (And this makes me feel old. Time rushes by.)
I remember this rather vividly. (And this makes me feel old. Time rushes by.)
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I remember it as if it happened yesterday. I also remember the analysis years later. They have changed the wheels, adding one layer of hard rubber between the outer and inner parts made of (as usual) hard steel. That was done to absorb otherwise very mild vibrations (I honestly can't feel any even at 360 km/h). On that day, one of the wheels broke, severing control systems on the train leading to the horrible accident. After that, they have changed the construction of the wheels back to the original design. I remember my first ride in ICE some time in 2012... Frankfurt to Stuttgart... very smooth ride... and at the beginning I realised, if anything goes wrong I will have just enough time to think "oh poop".
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That's Herford, right?
I've still been living in the Netherlands back then and it wasn't that much in the news over there as it must have been in Germany. But I remember... phew, that was a bad one.
I've still been living in the Netherlands back then and it wasn't that much in the news over there as it must have been in Germany. But I remember... phew, that was a bad one.
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I was... well, I was born on May 14th 1970... but I am too lazy to calculate how old I was.
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You were 28 at the time. That means you're 48 now! 
When in doubt, run in tiny little circles!
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poop, that means I am getting old 
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It was Eschede. The biggest rail accident ever to happen in Germany (at least as far as I know). It was SO all over the news here (of course) and even in other countries (which menas something - this country is dry and boring news-wise).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschede_derailment
I still wonder about such things, you know. Had the wheel broke just 30 seconds earlier or later it would've never came to that size of disaster. Not only did hte train derail, it did so under a bridge, so that the wagons after the initital problem all collapsed into the pillars and too the bridge with them. That's truely Murphys law for you.
I also still wonder when ever I see a picture of that how they managed to clean that up at all. Even without any humans lives destroyed or in peril it would seem next to impossible (and they got it done fast.
Seeing this I remembered watching a TV-film a while beforehand about a rail accident that I never heard of before or ever since. I didn't even catch the beginning, but remember the 'court scene' ,where the course of the derailment was explained and it was so outta psace -l ike (so to speak) ... I just remembered it.
Took me years, before I found what it was about:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granville_rail_disaster
Sometimes my head says 'How is this even possible?' (And both happenings are somewhat similar too). The 'additional' WTF in Granville was that one of the wagons that passed through the bridge, derailed, hit one of the wooden masts for the electricity, so that the mast fell, the wires landing on the rails where a following wagon drove into them and pulled them liek the sinew of a bow, resulting in the mast to propel itself straight through the corridor of the next wagon like an arrow, killing wuite a few people. Even in their wildest nightmares no insurance specialist could see something like this coming.
This is wild.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschede_derailment
I still wonder about such things, you know. Had the wheel broke just 30 seconds earlier or later it would've never came to that size of disaster. Not only did hte train derail, it did so under a bridge, so that the wagons after the initital problem all collapsed into the pillars and too the bridge with them. That's truely Murphys law for you.
I also still wonder when ever I see a picture of that how they managed to clean that up at all. Even without any humans lives destroyed or in peril it would seem next to impossible (and they got it done fast.
Seeing this I remembered watching a TV-film a while beforehand about a rail accident that I never heard of before or ever since. I didn't even catch the beginning, but remember the 'court scene' ,where the course of the derailment was explained and it was so outta psace -l ike (so to speak) ... I just remembered it.
Took me years, before I found what it was about:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granville_rail_disaster
Sometimes my head says 'How is this even possible?' (And both happenings are somewhat similar too). The 'additional' WTF in Granville was that one of the wagons that passed through the bridge, derailed, hit one of the wooden masts for the electricity, so that the mast fell, the wires landing on the rails where a following wagon drove into them and pulled them liek the sinew of a bow, resulting in the mast to propel itself straight through the corridor of the next wagon like an arrow, killing wuite a few people. Even in their wildest nightmares no insurance specialist could see something like this coming.
This is wild.