10-01-2010, 12:24 PM
A Swedish express train heading from Oslo in Norway to Stockholm in Sweden derailed this afternoon. The train had about 300 pax (we are heading into a vacation week) when it derailed between the town of Kongsvinger and the border with Sweden.
Two passenger cars went off the track and flipped onto their sides. Thankfully it looks like no deaths. About 30 injured, of which two or three has been classified as seriously injured and airlifted out to the trauma center in Oslo, while the rest has been taken to the local hospital by cars.
Engine looks like a Swedish RC3 or RC4 - basically the same design as the AEM-7 "toaster" engines Amtrak, MARC and SEPTA are operating in the NE United States.
Some pics from the accident scene at this Norwegian news site: http://www.dagbladet.no/2010/10/01/nyhet.../13651400/
Stein
Two passenger cars went off the track and flipped onto their sides. Thankfully it looks like no deaths. About 30 injured, of which two or three has been classified as seriously injured and airlifted out to the trauma center in Oslo, while the rest has been taken to the local hospital by cars.
Engine looks like a Swedish RC3 or RC4 - basically the same design as the AEM-7 "toaster" engines Amtrak, MARC and SEPTA are operating in the NE United States.
Some pics from the accident scene at this Norwegian news site: http://www.dagbladet.no/2010/10/01/nyhet.../13651400/
Stein