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Eschede derailment

1998 CE · Germany, Europe · Disaster

Eschede derailment
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On 3 June 1998, part of an ICE 1 train on the Hanover–Hamburg railway near Eschede in Lower Saxony, Germany, derailed and crashed into an overpass that crossed the railroad, which then collapsed onto the train.

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