Germany's Most Modern Train Out of Service After Derailment

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Mar 1, 2000 - 10:21 PM

Germany's Most Modern Train Out of Service After Derailment

The Associated Press

BERLIN (AP) - Germany's most modern superfast trains were taken out of service after one of them derailed twice in central Berlin on a trip without passengers, the federal railways said.

No one was injured in Wednesday's incidents, which happened while the sleek IntercityExpress-T train was on its way to a railway workshop in Berlin, a railways statement said. It apparently was traveling at low speed.

Nine other ICE-T trains operating in Germany were ordered halted as a precaution pending an investigation into the problem, the statement said late Wednesday.

In June 1998, an earlier-model IntercityExpress derailed and hit a bridge at 125 mph, killing 101 people in postwar Germany's deadliest train accident. Investigators blamed a broken wheel.

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-- Carl Jenkins (Somewherepress@aol.com), March 02, 2000


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