TGV derails 10 dead now 11

[Mario_v]

bedell

So why the smoke?  Is there some sort of fuel carried on a TGV.? There seems to be smoke/fire at each end of the bridge.

 

One of the power cars caught fire

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Railway gazette article much more detail.

http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/high-speed/single-view/view/test-train-catastrophe-on-lgv-est.html

 

 

[bedell]

So why the smoke?  Is there some sort of fuel carried on a TGV.? There seems to be smoke/fire at each end of the bridge.

[Mario_v]

According with the french press, it was one of several test runs to test the comfort parameters of the train circulating at a speed 10% higher than the one that will be the normal (352 Km/h instead of 320 km/h), also in test were the positive train control systems (this section of track is not still 'operational', it is expected to open in 2016).

Some links, for those who can read french ;

http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2015/11/14/au-moins-cinq-morts-dans-un-accident-de-train-pres-de-strasbourg_4810064_3224.html

http://www.dna.fr/actualite/2015/11/14/un-train-se-renverse-et-prend-feu-a-eckwersheim-pres-de-strasbourg

 

http://www.20minutes.fr/strasbourg/1730803-20151115-direct-deraillement-tgv-alsace

Videos

This one is part of a sppecial emission from a local channel tv

[CMStPnP]

Giving kids rides on a test train I read....tsk, tsk.    Hardly a safe practice for a National Railway that likes to brag about it's safety record.

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IRJ article more details now 11 dead.  37 injred 12 seriously.  Test personell listed as 49.  Note may have had some extra employee's family on board but no information given out yet.  DATA recorder not recovered.

http://www.railjournal.com/index.php/europe/ten-dead-as-test-train-derails-on-tgv-est-phase-2.html?channel=537

 

 

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Was test train only employees and engineers ( not train driver except for those qualifying on route )

http://www.railjournal.com/index.php/europe/ten-dead-as-test-train-derails-on-tgv-est-phase-2.html?channel=537

 

 

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France can not catch a break.  Derailment on a curved bridge.  Hope it is not an overspeed ? Does not appear to be related to Paris.

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/475659/Train-derails-Strasbourg-France-Paris

https://www.rt.com/news/322054-tgv-train-derails-eckwersheim/