02-15-2012, 01:15 PM
faraway Wrote:It is an original swiss made train and widely used all over Europe. Wiki has some information http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadler_FLIRT
Absolutely - it is not a new basic design - there are several hundred of these running in several European countries. Sheer bad luck that the first one ever to be in an accident was in an accident just before the type was put into traffic in Norway. But better to have the derailment with just a small test crew aboard, instead of having a train packed with people derail - it was pretty well torn up (15 seconds of ad first, then video pictures of train, seen from the air):
http://bcove.me/ov3n0d7x
Stein