
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

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
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
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.â€
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.â€
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,â€
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 doubt that it was poor track maintenance. Russia has one of the best maintained tracks in the world…
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
Don’t you guys know… In Mother Russia, you don’t hurt Russians, Russians hurt you!