Clean-up work after the train accident continues: 110-ton crane lifts derailed wagon back onto the track

Created: 06/15/2022Updated: 06/15/2022, 11:40 am

By: Christian Fellner

Successful mission: The fifth wagon of the train was lifted back onto the track on Wednesday morning by a special railway crane.

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Special forces from Deutsche Bahn continued to rescue the vehicles involved in the accident on Wednesday: After temporary repair work on the track, a crane was able to put the fifth wagon back on the rails.

The locomotive should follow in the coming days.

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

- At 10:30 a.m., an important part of the mission was accomplished: the approximately 30-meter-long double-decker wagon of the regional train, which derailed near Garmisch-Partenkirchen around noon on June 3, was back on the track.

The special forces of Deutsche Bahn had provisionally repaired the underground in the days before so that it was even possible to remove the remaining vehicles.

On Wednesday morning, the team of experts from Bahn AG, who had traveled all the way from Wanneeikel with the 110-ton crane, dared the mission: the wagon had to go back to the railroad tracks in order to be able to transport it away.

Not an easy task with a vehicle that weighs around 50 tons.

First, the specialists heaved the car back onto the previously renovated track on one side using a crane boom with large loops, then they continued with the rear part.

Precision and heavy work.

Because again and again the vehicle had to be pulled a little far and then aligned.

After three hours, the workers were allowed to catch their breath.

The car stood again - and was apparently also ready to drive.

For a more detailed examination, the car is to be towed to the train station in Farchant.

"Only there, after an investigation, will it be decided

The locomotive remains at the scene of the accident for the time being - the tracks first have to be repaired

The electric locomotive, which weighs around 88 tons, will remain in place for the time being.

It is to be lifted back onto the track in the next few days according to a similar pattern and later transported away.

However, the track north of the scene of the accident must first be repaired at this point as well.

Because of the accident, the rails at the Zeil were very badly deformed.

"At the moment it would not be possible to run a train there," said the railway spokesman.

Once the track is operational again, the locomotive will also be removed in the next few days.

However, it will be weeks or months before the route is opened.

So far, the route has only been temporarily repaired.

Regular rail traffic is not possible there.

In addition, the investigations of the Soko Zug of the Kripo Weilheim are still ongoing in the southern area of ​​the locomotive.