VIA Passenger Train Derailment at Aldershot

[spec5sx]

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/02/26 ... 02623.html

[Chacal]

Hard to believe so much destruction resulted from a derailment at 25 kph.
It is difficult to see from the pictures, but it seems that the guys were unlucky: something smashed the cab after the loco flipped.
One picture shows fence posts close to the cab window.

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[Chacal]

No wonder it was hard to believe: it now appears that the train switched tracks at 100 kph while the speed limit was 25 kph.
Brakes were never applied.

[arizonachris]

it now appears that the train switched tracks at 100 kph while the speed limit was 25 kph.

Yep, I think that would do it.

[Chacal]

After Argentina and Canada, now Poland.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/ ... 0N20120304

That's the 3rd major train crash in 2 weeks, with casualties again.