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140 [citation needed] Deaths. 1. Injured. 10 (4 serious) [citation needed] The Tiefencastel derailment occurred near the municipality of Tiefencastel, Switzerland, on 13 August 2014 when a passenger train travelling on the Albula Railway was struck by a landslide and derailed. Ten people were injured, four seriously, and 1 person died.
The Albula railway line (German: Albulalinie; Italian: Linea dell'Albula; Romansh: Lingia da l'Alvra) is a single track metre gauge railway line forming part of the core network of the Rhaetian Railway (RhB), in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. It links Thusis on the Hinterrhein at 697 m (2,287 ft) and Filisur at 1,080 m (3,540 ft) with ...
4 March 1933 – At Vriog, the locomotive of a Great Western Railway freight train is struck by falling rocks and pushed into the Irish Sea. Both engine crew are killed. [12] 13 August 2014 – At Tiefencastel, Switzerland, a passenger train was derailed by a landslide that struck the train. Eleven people were injured.
Tiefencastel railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Tiefencastel, in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. It is an intermediate stop on the 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) metre gauge Albula line of the Rhaetian Railway. [1] Hourly services operate on this section of the line.
The 1962 Voghera train crash occurred at track three of Voghera railway station, on the night of 31 May 1962. Sixty-four people died, and 40 were seriously injured. [8] At 2:35 on 31 May 1962, a freight train from Milan, hauled by an E626 class electric locomotive, entered Voghera station at high speed, against protection signals set to 'danger'.
The Landwasser Viaduct (German: Landwasserviadukt) is a single-track six- arched curved limestone railway viaduct. It spans the Landwasser between Schmitten and Filisur, in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. Designed by Alexander Acatos, the Landwasser Viaduct was constructed between 1901 and 1902 by Müller & Zeerleder on behalf of the ...
Tiefencastel (Romansh: Casti) is a village and a former municipality in the district of Albula in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. On 1 January 2015 the former municipalities of Alvaschein , Mon , Stierva , Tiefencastel, Alvaneu , Brienz/Brinzauls and Surava merged to form the new municipality of Albula/Alvra .
100 km/h (62 mph) Highest elevation. 2,254 m (7,395 ft) Route map. The Rhaetian Railway (German: Rhätische Bahn; Italian: Ferrovia retica; Romansh: Viafier retica), abbreviated RhB, is a Swiss transport company that owns the largest network of all private railway operators in Switzerland. Headquartered in Chur, [1] the RhB operates all the ...