BREAKING NEWS: Train derailed at Keleti station, several trains delayed – UPDATE
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Another train derailed at Budapest’s Keleti station, causing numerous delays and cancellations for commuters on Monday morning.
Due to a technical fault, some trains at Keleti station may be delayed by 15-20 minutes, Mávinform said on its Facebook page on Monday morning.
They wrote that on the Hatvan line, the Agria from Eger and the Mátra InterRegio from Gyöngyös will run as S80 trains between Budapest and Hatvan. On the Újszász line, the Z60 trains from Szolnok will run as S60 trains between Budapest and Sülysáp.
Meanwhile, it has been reported that another train derailed at Keleti station.
Public transportation expert Dávid Vitézy wrote in a Facebook post:
Another derailment occurred this morning, again at Keleti station, involving a locomotive. This is the cause of the disruption to the station’s operations reported by MÁV. The exact causes are obviously not yet known, but after the incident at the end of the summer, MÁV should explain very quickly how this could have happened again in the same place. Fortunately, as far as I know, there were no personal injuries,
says the MEP in his Facebook post.
It is not yet known what caused the accident.
As we wrote earlier, a train derailed in late August at Keleti station. At the time, five cars of an InterCity train from Cluj Napoca called Claudiopolis derailed. Related article: InterCity derailed, paralysing train traffic at busy Budapest railway station – Photos
It took several days to restore and restart traffic, and days later, it was discovered that the derailment was caused by two broken bolts, which prevented the train from moving properly and diverted it to the adjacent track, which was not designated for it.
Vitézy also provided pictures:
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Another day, another broken rail in the world of MAV. It’s fortunate it happened when it did, at low speed with a train not carrying any passengers. Rails don’t just break, they suffer metal fatigue and there comes a point when they’ve reached the end of their service life and gone beyond it. Clearly that is what happened here, no different to the case of the broken bolt on the points a few weeks back that resulted in the serious derailment of a passenger train. These are not normal things in developed countries, it’s a result of chronic underfunding leading to missed maintenance and tends to affect the infrastructure of third world countries.