Thursday, April 1, 2010

Oil breakdown: ICE paralyze rail



Cologne - An ICE 3 operated by Deutsche Bahn has to stop amSamstagabend lost on the open road between Cologne and Leverkusen around 200Liter oil and had to.
As a Deutsche Bahn spokesman told amSonntag could, the 127 passengers for a half hour wait in a Ersatzzug change. The route had to be closed to rundsechs hours to clean the tracks to. The ICEwird because of the loss of transformer oil now in the train depot in Kölnuntersucht.
   The train driver did not notice the loss of oil through an ad in seinemFahrstand said railway spokesman. There had been a question of biodegradable oil. For the passengers had never existed Zeitpunkteine danger.
The cause of the "very rare incident," the spokesman istnach information not previously known. Because derStreckensperrung led to delays in rail traffic.
   On 9 July 2008 was a German Intercity Express train both exit from the Cologne Central Station derailed. Blame wareine broken wheel axle. The approximately 250 passengers arrived with demSchrecken them. Previously, the ICE was on dieHochgeschwindigkeitsstrecke will come from Frankfurt, which drove up zu300 kilometers per hour.