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Gotthard train crash report notes ignored warning signals

Swiss Federal Railways might have prevented the 2023 Gotthard tunnel train derailment, according to an expert report commissioned by the Ticino public prosecutor's office. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The consequences of a broken wheel in the Gotthard Base Tunnel in August 2023 were CHF150 million in repair works and a tunnel tube closed for over a year. The new prosecutor’s report, which has been obtained by Swiss public broadcaster SRF, has uncovered errors. After the wheel of the eleventh freight train car broke, a whole series of warning messages were not heeded by operators. Josef Dittli, a canton Uri parliamentarian and president of the industry association of freight wagon owners, is now sharply critical of the system. "If a train can travel kilometres into the tunnel and a trail of error messages appears on the screens – if it lights up red in the control centre and nobody intervenes, then something is clearly wrong with the system,” he said. Full story here Are you the author?
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