Train derails in Switzerland: 5 seriously injured.

Posted on August 13, 2014 by bill

Suisse : un train déraille, cinq blessés graves

par Elise Delève mercredi 13 août 2014.
L'accident a eu lieu à Tiefencastel, dans la partie montagneuse de l'Est de la Suisse
L’accident a eu lieu à Tiefencastel, dans la partie montagneuse de l’Est de la Suisse

Vers 13h, un train a déraillé dans le Sud-Est de la Suisse, près de St-Moritz. Les secours sont sur place. Le premier bilan fait état de cinq blessés graves et six blessés légers.

At 13h, a train derailed in SE Switzerland, near St Moritz. Emergency services are attending. The first figures say five serious injuries and six lighter injured.

Un train a déraillé en Suisse ce mercredi, emporté par un glissement de terrain. L’accident a eu lieu à Tiefencastel dans la partie montagneuse du Sud-Est du pays, dans le canton des Grisons, entre St-Moritz et Coire. “Une partie du train a dérailllé, emportée par un glissement de terrain“, a déclaré à l’AFP le porte-parole de la compagnie Simon Rageth. La motrice a heurté un amas de terre et de roches dans une zone où il a beaucoup plu. Depuis minuit, Météo Suisse a enregistré des précipitations de 50 mm.

The train was carried away by a land side. The accident site is at  Tiefencastel in a mountainess part of the SW of the country, in the Grisons canton, between St Moritz and Coire. An amassed section hurtled hurtled rock and land in a section where there was heavy rain. In a minute, Meteo Swiss registered 50 mm of rain.  

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Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer. The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013. Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI. Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug 2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website. But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien. The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50. Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea. Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
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