Large-scale operation in Bad Tölz: evacuation from the train completed - route blocked for more than two hours

Created: 06/22/2022, 05:42

By: Andreas Steppan

Numerous rescue workers are on duty after a train accident in Bad Tölz.

© Arndt Pröhl

After an accident in Bad Tölz, 48 people were evacuated from a train on Tuesday afternoon.

There were significant delays and cancellations in the Bavarian Oberlandbahn network.

Update from June 21, 6:30 p.m .:

A serious accident occurred on Tuesday afternoon in Bad Tölz on the route of the Bavarian Regiobahn.

The train then stopped in the Oberes Griesfeld area.

The fire brigade and mountain rescue service evacuated 46 passengers, a train attendant and the train driver.

None of the passengers were harmed.

The accident happened around 3 p.m.

Numerous rescue workers were alerted.

A seriously injured person was transported from the track area, which is in impassable terrain, by rescue helicopter after first aid.

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The train had applied an emergency brake and could not continue after that.

The Tölz fire brigade, which was on site with 25 people, and around ten active members of the Tölz mountain rescue service began evacuating the train about half an hour after the accident.

The track runs in this area along a steep embankment, the passengers could not easily get off there.

The emergency services built a rescue platform for them, which the travelers could first climb down on, as Hermann John from the fire brigade reports.

From there they were accompanied by rescue workers along the railway embankment about 100 meters across the meadow to Obere Griesfeld.

An emergency bus was waiting there to take people to the Tölz train station.

The BRK crisis intervention team took over the care of the train driver.

Major delays and cancellations in the BRB network in the Oberland

For travelers in the Oberland, the incident resulted in significant delays and cancellations.

According to the publication on the website of the Bavarian Regiobahn (BRB), the route between Bad Tölz and Gaißach was closed due to the emergency doctor's intervention.

According to the BRB, this affected the entire Oberland network.

From 4 p.m., the BRB used a bus as emergency transport in Schaftlach and Lenggries.

At around 5:20 p.m., the company announced on the Internet that the railway line would be released again shortly and train traffic would start again.

Large-scale operation in Bad Tölz: passengers evacuated from the train after an accident – ​​the route is closed

First report from June 21, 4 p.m.:

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Bad Tölz – In Bad Tölz, there was an accident on the Bavarian Regiobahn railway line.

According to the police in Tölz, a person who was hit by the train was seriously injured and was transported by helicopter to the accident clinic.

Serious accident in Bad Tölz: train must be evacuated

The accident happened around 3 p.m., according to police.

The train applied an emergency brake in the Oberes Griesfeld area in Bad Tölz and is now no longer ready to drive.

The passengers now have to be evacuated on the open route.

The track runs along a steep embankment in this area.

Mountain rescue service and fire brigade are on duty.

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Police said none of the passengers on the train were injured.

The police are not yet able to say how many people were on the train at the time of the accident.

After an accident: the railway line between Bad Tölz and Gaißach is closed

The incident resulted in considerable delays for train passengers in the Oberland, and some connections were completely canceled.

The Bavarian Regiobahn writes on its website: "There is currently a route closure in the Oberland network between Bad Tölz and Gaißach due to an emergency medical service in the track area.

Trains are not possible on this section of the route.

There are high delays and cancellations in the entire BRB Oberland network.

From 4 p.m., one bus will be used as an emergency bus service in Schaftlach and one in Lenggries.”

You can find more current news from the region around Bad Tölz at Merkur.de/Bad Tölz.