Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Right now: complete shutdown of rail traffic past the Borlänge after the derailment – bbc Radio

the Train was en route from Stockholm to Falun. According to the Swedish transport administration shall urspårningen have been in the low-speed. What made that train derailment is still unclear.

No person shall have come to harm as a result of urspårningen. It is now a lookout past the Borlänge for all train traffic, and according to the Dmv it will be a major impact during the evening.

Travelers are advised to contact their train company and find out if there is any ersättningstrafik.

– We have staff on-site who inspects this derailed train and how järnvägsanläggningen looks if there is some damage on the tracks and so on. Then we will eventually be able to tell you a forecast for when traffic can start again, ” says Thomas Pihl, presskommunikatör at the Dmv.

Gustav Israelsson was and waited for the train to Mora when he saw that a train was standing still for a little bit from the platform.

“about fifty persons came out from the train and started to walk back and up on the platform,” he says.

Gustav asked SJ-personnel on the spot what has happened, and they told me that the train is off the rails.

“It looked very dramatic, the train was not on crooked or anything,” says Gustav Israelsson.

Many of those who sat in the train has already left the Borlänge station in ersättningsbussar.

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