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Robert
Apr 9, 2023, 12:20:03 PM4/9/23
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<https://nltimes.nl/2023/04/07/train-derailment-timeline-leaked-crane-active-railroad-earlier-agreed>:
"Voorschoten train derailment timeline
3:23 a.m.: The contractor's on-site safety manager contacts the ProRail
train traffic controller with the request to briefly put the tracks next
to the worksite out of service so that the crane can safely cross. The
train controller replies that this will be possible in 10 minutes. The
workplace safety manager gives instructions to wait for a call from the
train traffic controller. For reasons that are unclear, the crane then
arrives too early on or close to the track in service and is hit by the
freight train.
After the collision with the freight train, the crane ends up on the
track where the NS passenger train is approaching. This also collides
with it, causing the NS train to derail.
3:29 a.m.: The operations control centre for infrastructure (OBI) calls
the train traffic controller with the report that several overhead lines
have failed. It is asked whether there is still train traffic between
The Hague and Leiden.
3:31 a.m.: The Railroad Control Room calls the train traffic controller
to ask whether an incident has occurred at Voorschoten. The train
traffic controller replies that he is not aware of an incident, but that
he has received a report from the OBI that the overhead line voltage has
been lost.
3:31 and 3:32 a.m.: The train traffic controller calls the freight
train, the passenger train and the train behind the freight train, but
does not reach any of the drivers.
3:34 a.m.: The driver of the train behind the freight train calls back
that the power has been lost just before Mariahoeve.
3:36 a.m.: The Railroad Control Room contacts the train controller
again. The control room says that the fire brigade has been informed
that a crane has been hit and that the NS control room reports that the
NS train has derailed. Emergency services are dispatched.
Reporting by ANP"
--
Rob
"I have never understood why it should be necessary to become irrational
in order to prove that you care, or, indeed, why it should be necessary
to prove it at all." - Avon, Blake's 7
<https://nltimes.nl/2023/04/07/train-derailment-timeline-leaked-crane-active-railroad-earlier-agreed>:
"Voorschoten train derailment timeline
3:23 a.m.: The contractor's on-site safety manager contacts the ProRail
train traffic controller with the request to briefly put the tracks next
to the worksite out of service so that the crane can safely cross. The
train controller replies that this will be possible in 10 minutes. The
workplace safety manager gives instructions to wait for a call from the
train traffic controller. For reasons that are unclear, the crane then
arrives too early on or close to the track in service and is hit by the
freight train.
After the collision with the freight train, the crane ends up on the
track where the NS passenger train is approaching. This also collides
with it, causing the NS train to derail.
3:29 a.m.: The operations control centre for infrastructure (OBI) calls
the train traffic controller with the report that several overhead lines
have failed. It is asked whether there is still train traffic between
The Hague and Leiden.
3:31 a.m.: The Railroad Control Room calls the train traffic controller
to ask whether an incident has occurred at Voorschoten. The train
traffic controller replies that he is not aware of an incident, but that
he has received a report from the OBI that the overhead line voltage has
been lost.
3:31 and 3:32 a.m.: The train traffic controller calls the freight
train, the passenger train and the train behind the freight train, but
does not reach any of the drivers.
3:34 a.m.: The driver of the train behind the freight train calls back
that the power has been lost just before Mariahoeve.
3:36 a.m.: The Railroad Control Room contacts the train controller
again. The control room says that the fire brigade has been informed
that a crane has been hit and that the NS control room reports that the
NS train has derailed. Emergency services are dispatched.
Reporting by ANP"
--
Rob
"I have never understood why it should be necessary to become irrational
in order to prove that you care, or, indeed, why it should be necessary
to prove it at all." - Avon, Blake's 7
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