Train Wreckage Between Moscow and St. Petersburg
A few days ago a train crashed between St. Petersburg and Moscow. Some say there was an explosion of some kind of a mine on the rails. Luckily there were no victims.
photos by Jaeger
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There were no victims? This looks like a passenger train..how was it empty?
they all got off at the last station……….just to see Igor
“Last stop, baldy fag”?
The Nevsky Express train derailed in Novgorod Region at 9.38 pm, local time, as it was traveling at 180 kph with 231 passengers and 21 train crew members on board. The bomb was placed about 30 meters ahead of a bridge over the Chernaya River. The explosion happened under the locomotive. The blast tore 75-centimer rail and sent it through the cabin’s floor, nearly missing the engineer and shooting up through the roof.
The locomotive went off the tracks but stayed on the railroad embankment thanks to flange rails on the bridge between the main rails. The train crossed the bridge, leaning on the flange rail before the train’s heaviest dining-car with refrigerating equipment and water supplies tipped onto its side. The train traveled a further 750 meters after the blast, tearing track in the area and overhead wiring.
The Nevsky Express’s passengers say that the train was jolting a lot during the incident, and the window panes were smashed by gravel. “I saw a pair of wheels under the car crash into the floor and actually pierce into our compartment,” Andrey Vlasov, a train conductor, said in an interview with Kommersant newspaper. “I scarcely had time to jump away.”
As soon as the train came to a standstill, the train crew and passengers rushed to the dining-car and nearby cars. They smashed the glass to help out those in the cars as the doors were locked. Several passengers on board were doctors and were able to provide first aid. Those in the dining-car were all covered in blood as they got cut by smashed crockery. “Vodka saved us,” Andrey Vlasov recalls. “We would damp tissues in it and wipe each other’s faces and hands.” Andrey had his arms up to the elbow covered in blood.
Full text: http://www.rzd-partner.com/press/2007/08/15/309302.html
The Nevsky Express train derailed in Novgorod Region at 9.38 pm, local time, as it was traveling at 180 kph with 231 passengers and 21 train crew members on board. The bomb was placed about 30 meters ahead of a bridge over the Chernaya River. The explosion happened under the locomotive. The blast tore 75-centimer rail and sent it through the cabin’s floor, nearly missing the engineer and shooting up through the roof.
The locomotive went off the tracks but stayed on the railroad embankment thanks to flange rails on the bridge between the main rails. The train crossed the bridge, leaning on the flange rail before the train’s heaviest dining-car with refrigerating equipment and water supplies tipped onto its side. The train traveled a further 750 meters after the blast, tearing track in the area and overhead wiring.
The Nevsky Express’s passengers say that the train was jolting a lot during the incident, and the window panes were smashed by gravel. “I saw a pair of wheels under the car crash into the floor and actually pierce into our compartment,” Andrey Vlasov, a train conductor, said in an interview with Kommersant newspaper. “I scarcely had time to jump away.”
As soon as the train came to a standstill, the train crew and passengers rushed to the dining-car and nearby cars. They smashed the glass to help out those in the cars as the doors were locked. Several passengers on board were doctors and were able to provide first aid. Those in the dining-car were all covered in blood as they got cut by smashed crockery. “Vodka saved us s,” Andrey Vlasov recalls. “We would damp tissues in it and wipe each other’s faces and hands.” Andrey had his arms up to the elbow covered in blood.
Full text: http://www.rzd-partner.com/press/2007/08/15/309302.html
“Vodka saved us,”
not perpetuating any stereotypes there, is he?
Vodka to damp tissues. Stereotype?
Most likely the work of Islamists! Ban Islam in Russia!
Who knows, maybe their rail infrastructure is as poorly maintained as US interstate bridges and highways.
It was a bomb.
I see a lot of silly comments about Vodka here. It a perfect antiseptic for cuts and if you have ever been in a crash a little in the system might make it easier to survive it. I’m American from the South so I care less about stereo types. I am also a person with knowledge of blast damage having been trained in demolitions and can say this looks somewhat like a blast, but a delayed blast that would not hit the engines but further down the train. I would suspect a blast back closer to the car that was flipped over and across the other track. My reasons for my belief is the track is missing in the daylight shots in that general area where they are not in the earlier shots. The abrupt explosion would develop enough force to derail the engine further up the line with throwing it completely off track which if set to go off when it crosses would have happened. The explanation of flanged rails stopping the locomotive from leaving the track bed is correct only if it wasn’t directly struck by the blast. I’ve help investigate train explosions and a locomotive at speed when hit will not be stopped by the flanges as they will usually shatter when struck by the blast causing the engine to dig in and flip upon its side. In case most people don’t know the tires on a locomotive are cast steel, not forged because of cost factors and therefore brittle susceptible to blast shock. I don’t believe this is any different in Russia as here. I can’t comment on what was told by the government officials about this wreck and these are just pure guesses bases on limited information.
The only other explanation would be catastrophic track failure that happened at that junction that could possibly cause the same conditions. This would also cause investigators to pull and ferret away portions of the track for analysis. This only my opinion from photo evidence which is slim at best, but it is a hell of a lot better than all the BS I’m reading so far. What is surprising to me is how did these photos get away from there without somebody grabbing them. Investigators would want to see them to see if they missed anything by their own guys.
Incidentally, it does seem like track maintenance issue: One, the wiring found is notoriously unreliable (so-called “lapsha” - two solid wires molded into a plastic strip about 1/3 of an inch wide - used for interior phone wiring, but I wouldn’t trust it even with that), two, experts claim that the crater is way too small for the amount of explosive needed, and, three, what’s the point of blowing a train ahead of the bridge, whereas blowing it up ON the bridge would do a lot more damage. To boot, two people arrested over the incident turned out to have alibi. Twenty bucks says, it’s a catastrophic failure, and at 80 mph the train was going that’d do a lot of damage. It’s just it is _convenient_ to some to claim it was “evil terrists”: cover up poor track maintenance, and “keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety)”.
I doubt that it was poor track maintenance. Russia has one of the best maintained tracks in the world…
Is that why Sibelius express is referred to as “hopping train”? Everything is nice and smooth in Finland, but once Russian border is reached, nightmare begins…
This whats happens when Russians don’t have enough vodka in them
I bet this scumbag was completely sober! Igor is disgraced with you
Also when Igor crashes his truck. I like to have vodka to help me to, Not to wipe in holes in me but to drink till im so wasted I cant feel the pain
Stop spamming. You’ve been reported.