Derailment disrupts traffic on the line of the Douro – the News Journal

ANTONIO ORLANDO

Today at 14:12, updated at 18:19

The line of the Douro river is cut off to the circulation, in the area of the Livração, Marco de Canaveses, in virtue of the derailment of a train that was making the connection between the Ruler and the Harbour.

The derailment occurred at the entrance to the platform of the station of the Livração, at about 11.40 hours. That is, the composition of the track circulated on the march very low which will have been decisive for the absence of physical damage of the occupants. Only the head of the station, in a panic, had to receive hospital care.

We were frightened. It is natural. The luck was that the train was already almost stopped

The derailment of two carriages, the intermediate composition, “commenced in the zone of change of needles from single track to double track from gare,” he explained to JN, a source of CP. Human error or deficiency of the material may help to explain the accident. In progress is already underway with a survey having been, even requested blood testing to employees who that time were operating at the station of Livração. It should be noted that one section was already in the works of electrification.

As the line has only one track, the movement of trains between the stations of Livração and Marco de Canaveses is cut off for an indefinite time. The Infrastructure of Portugal is to do the transhipment of passengers between the two stations. The damage to the rail are substantial along approximately 700 meters long.

Ears by JN, the passengers were in the carriages involved in an accident reported that they heard “a strange noise”, such as stones hitting irons of the train and felt the tilt of the carriage,” according to Pink Felisberto.

“We were frightened. It is natural. The luck was that the train was already almost stopped”, atalhou Jorge Mesquita, a passenger from the Ruler, afflicted with the hours because I had a flight scheduled for Switzerland, where is emigrated. “I don’t know if I get the time. This is why I made the noise for that arranjassem transshipment,” he said.

a Little after, arrived a composition coming from the Port that ali found himself forced to stop the route and made a return to the point of origin with the transhipment of the passengers who had been apeados in Livração.

Movement resumed on Monday

The traffic should be resumed on Monday, said to the Lusa source of the Infrastructures of Portugal. In the relocation work on the rails of the two carriages rugged “were found in damage to the via, which must be repaired, and hence take more time”, explained the same source.

the Source of CP-Comboios de Portugal said, in his turn, that is guaranteed the transport and transfer by bus between Livração and Marco de Canaveses.