The barrier was open, although it should be closed: this disturbing face offered drivers on Tuesday afternoon in Dietfurt in St. Peter am Hart in Upper Austria. Even without a red light warning for the traffic of the transition, a freight train drove past the tracks.
“The garnish stopped before the crossing. The train driver elaborated, then he continued,” says Frenainer Josef Probst, who took a photo of the incident and warned a car program via social media. “Unfortunately it was not the first time it happened – it feels like it happens every two weeks,” Probst emphasizes. On Tuesday it took approximately three hours until maintenance technicians arrived on the site and regulated car traffic with traffic frames.
Pipe signal
“It was already dark when they were still at the level of the crossing.” The trains arrived every 15 minutes, stopped briefly and had given a whistle. “There have been explosive scenes when drivers quickly cross the level crossing on the approach.” A failure of the barrier and lighting system is confirmed in the ÖBB.
The system has been repaired
“The technical back -up of the railway crossing was not fully available for about five hours. After 40 minutes, an employee was on site and regulated the intersection. Until that time, all trains in the immediate vicinity stayed before the level of the level. Only after a loud signal and the control that the intersection is free, the trips were slowly continued,” Ebb Spokes said. ” There was no danger for car drivers that the system had been repaired. Regular disruptions are not confirmed by the ÖBB.
Fortunately not yet an accident
Mayor Robert Wimmer can also proof a failure that he documented with a photo in May of the previous year. “Fortunately there has been no accident so far.” He hopes that the electrification of the Mattigligalbahn and a lawsuit from autumn may be one of the problems of the past.
Source: Krone
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