Status: 25.11.2023, 20:33 PM
By: Andrea Gräpel
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At the exit of Herrsching at the level of the Fischbach bridge, a beaver has triggered a night-time fire brigade operation and paralyzed S-Bahn traffic.
Herrsching – Presumably a beaver paralyzed the S-Bahn traffic between Herrsching and Hechendorf in the night to Wednesday, November 22. Firefighters and police were on the scene because it was initially assumed that a person might have gotten under the train. But it was a tree.
Looks cute, but can cause damage: the beaver. © Dpa
On the route of the S8 to and from Herrsching, there were delays and partial cancellations in the night to Wednesday. A replacement service has been set up. The Deutsche Bahn route agent reported "objects on the track". The Herrsching volunteer fire brigade, however, was alerted shortly after midnight because it was feared that a person had fallen under the train at the level of the Fischbach bridge in the Herrsching area.
Biber paralyzes S-Bahn traffic: train rolls over rotten tree
"The train driver could not see exactly what he had run over in the dark," said Herrsching's commander Daniel Pleyer when asked by the Starnberger Merkur. To make sure that neither humans nor animals were injured, the emergency services searched the entire area at the level of the Fischbach bridge and along the railway service path next to the tracks as well as the reed area. With 22 firefighters, the Herrschingen fire brigade was in action.
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In the end, however, it was clear that it was a rotten tree over which the train rolled. So rotten that it had blown him to the side and there was nothing left to see on the tracks in the darkness. And as it turned out, a beaver had apparently caused the S-Bahn cancellation.
S-Bahn traffic disrupted due to beaver: Freshly gnawed tree indicates animal
This is also stated in the police report, because a freshly gnawed trunk in the area between impact and standstill of the train indicated this. "It wasn't really known that there was a beaver here," Pleyer said. Along the railway line on the other side of the railway service path there are a few more trees. The site belongs to the railway, including part of the large reed area bordering the Herrschinger Moos.
A few years ago, Count Toerring was ordered to cut down a large area of forest in the southern area of Hechendorf after trees threatened to fall onto the tracks. It is not known whether danger is now imminent at this point on the outskirts of Herrsching. The night-time operation was completed after just under two hours and the S-Bahn service was resumed.
In Munich, an S-Bahn train derailed at the Isartor. The main line was closed until the evening hours.
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