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Swedish train crash 15/01/2013 at 23:03 #40619
KymriskaDraken
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According to the news, a cleaner "stole" a train last night and managed to drive it into someone's house.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21030211

Joy-riding perhaps?

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Swedish train crash 15/01/2013 at 23:23 #40620
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i noted this story earlier on a different news site and thought it was a spoof!!

reminds me of the 14xx that gets stolen in the titfield thunderbolt

"We don't stop camborne wednesdays"
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Swedish train crash 16/01/2013 at 09:45 #40624
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At least that BBC article doesn't make the mistake of the one here which refers to a "four-carriage engine", which seems to be an increasingly common error in the general media these days - any train is an 'engine'.

[And that's accepting engine as being synonymous with locomotive, which is pretty much universal these days even though of course not true.]

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Swedish train crash 16/01/2013 at 11:20 #40625
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" said:
i noted this story earlier on a different news site and thought it was a spoof!!

reminds me of the 14xx that gets stolen in the titfield thunderbolt

Certainly no spoof: The Grauniad has a rather good aerial photo showing a throughly wrecked train with the front end buried in a 3-storey apartment block.

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Swedish train crash 16/01/2013 at 23:45 #40633
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I got this link from another forum. http://www.nordpilen.se/forum/showthread.php?tid=2287

They were taken by a local railway worker. I hope you can read Sweden-ish! :whistle:
However, a picture paints 1,000 words and there are quite a few pictures!

Last edited: 16/01/2013 at 23:47 by Signalhunter
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Swedish train crash 17/01/2013 at 00:58 #40634
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" said:
I got this link from another forum. http://www.nordpilen.se/forum/showthread.php?tid=2287

They were taken by a local railway worker. I hope you can read Sweden-ish! :whistle:
However, a picture paints 1,000 words and there are quite a few pictures!
You can use Live Search to translate the captions into English. (IE/Page/Translate with Live Search).

Barry

Barry, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Swedish train crash 17/01/2013 at 19:55 #40645
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It's turned onto a bit of a tourist attraction now. The paper today said that they won't be able to remove the train till next week, so Stockholmers are going there to take pictures.

There are suggestions now that it might have been an accident. Here is the report from The Local (in English).

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Swedish train crash 08/04/2013 at 16:53 #43191
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The SEKO Union's paper has just published an interview with the young lady involved with the crash:

Swedish version and GoogleTranslated into English

Last edited: 08/04/2013 at 17:03 by KymriskaDraken
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Swedish train crash 09/04/2013 at 16:39 #43246
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Yh I think it was pretty funny. do you think (s)he'd of cleaned up all the mess?

josh

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