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Jyväskylä Rail Accident
The Jyväskylä rail accident occurred on 6 March 1998 in Jyväskylä, Finland, when the Sr1-driven express train P105 from Turku bound for Joensuu via Pieksämäki derailed. The train left the tracks after coming in too fast on a switch near the station. 300 people were on board (some sources say 500); the fireman driving the train and nine passengers were killed, and 94 passengers injured. The investigation found the cause of the accident to be human error when interpreting signals. The driver of the train was expecting the train to enter the station on another track, which had a higher speed limit of . An estimate of the total cost of the accident was 21.5 million FIM (3.6 million euros). Chronology of events The train had departed Tampere 20 minutes late, but was arriving at Jyväskylä only 10 minutes behind schedule. The crew of two drivers had switched seats at Jämsä, with the driver in charge (the engineer) looking out and the secondary driver (or fireman, fi, vetur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jyväskylä
Jyväskylä () is a city and municipality in Finland in the western part of the Finnish Lakeland. It is located about 150 km north-east from Tampere, the third largest city in Finland; and about 270 km north from Helsinki, the capital of Finland. The Jyväskylä sub-region includes Jyväskylä, Hankasalmi, Laukaa, Petäjävesi, Toivakka, and Uurainen. Other border municipalities of Jyväskylä are Joutsa, Jämsä and Luhanka. Jyväskylä is the largest city in the region of Central Finland and in the Finnish Lakeland; as of , Jyväskylä had a population of . The city has been one of the fastest-growing cities in Finland during the 20th century, when in 1940, there were only 8,000 inhabitants in Jyväskylä. Elias Lönnrot, the compiler of the Finnish national epic, the ''Kalevala'', gave the city the nickname "Athens of Finland". This nickname refers to the major role of Jyväskylä as an educational centre. The works of the notable Finnish architect, Alvar Aalto, can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Railroad Engineer
A train driver, engine driver, engineman or locomotive driver, commonly known as an engineer or railroad engineer in the United States and Canada, and also as a locomotive handler, locomotive operator, train operator, or motorman, is a person who drives a train, multiple unit or a locomotive. The driver is in charge of, and is responsible for the mechanical operation of the train, train speed, and all of the train handling (also known as brake handling). In American English, a hostler (also known as a switcher) moves engines around rail yards, but does not take them out on the normal tracks; the British English equivalent is a shunter. Train drivers must follow certain guidelines for driving a train safely. For instance, in general, train drivers are encouraged to favour longer stopping distances as this promotes vehicle health, safety, and passenger comfort. Career progression For many American railroads, the following career progression is typical: assistant conductor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Automatic Train Control
Automatic train control (ATC) is a general class of train protection systems for railways that involves a speed control mechanism in response to external inputs. For example, a system could effect an emergency brake application if the driver does not react to a signal at danger. ATC systems tend to integrate various cab signalling technologies and they use more granular deceleration patterns in lieu of the rigid stops encountered with the older automatic train stop (ATS) technology. ATC can also be used with automatic train operation (ATO) and is usually considered to be the safety-critical part of a railway system. Over time, there have been many different safety systems labelled as "automatic train control". The first experimental apparatus was installed on the Henley branch line in January 1906 by the Great Western Railway, although it would now be referred to as an automatic warning system (AWS) because the driver retained full command of braking. The term is especially co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jokela Rail Accident
The Jokela rail accident occurred on 21 April 1996, at 07:08 local time (04:08 UTC) in Tuusula, Finland, approximately north of Helsinki. Four people were killed and 75 were injured when express train P82 from Oulu, bound for Helsinki, derailed in heavy fog. The overnight sleeper train was carrying 139 passengers and five crew members. The official investigation into the accident revealed that it was caused by overspeeding through a slow-speed turnout. It is estimated that the total cost of the accident was over FIM 26 million (€4.3 million). Causes Railway maintenance work was going on near Jokela railway station, and the usual southbound track was out of service. Because of heavy fog and high speed, the driver was unable to see the distant signal that warned about a divergent routing with a turnout speed limit of ahead. The visibility was a few dozen metres. Before the accident, drivers of passing trains had reported that the visibility of signals was very low. Moreove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Railway Signalling In Finland
The signalling system used on the railway network in Finland comprises color-light signals and fixed signs, used together with the Automatic Train Control system ATP-VR/RHK (an EBICAB 900 system better known as JKV, fi, junakulunvalvonta). Main signals The main signal can have any of the following aspects: If a main signal doesn't protect any switches or the speed restriction on a diverging route is the same as straight route, the signal doesn't need to show the ''Proceed 35'' aspect and therefore the yellow bottom light may be absent. The two lamp version of the old system has the lights reversed, i.e. red at the top and green at the bottom. Distant signals The distant signal is located at least before the main signal. It may also be located in the same post with a ''main signal'', below it. In this combined arrangement, whenever the main signal shows a stop aspect, the distant signal doesn't show any aspect at all. A distant signal can have any of the following aspects: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suomen Tietotoimisto
Finnish News Agency ( fi, Suomen Tietotoimisto, STT; sv, Finska Notisbyrån, FNB) is a Finnish news agency, established in 1887 and based in Helsinki. STT's majority owner is Sanoma Media Finland of the Sanoma Group. The Finnish public service broadcaster Yle is among the minority shareholders. STT is a sister agency of the Swedish wire service TT, Norwegian NTB, and Danish Ritzau Ritzaus Bureau A/S, or Ritzau for short, sometimes stylized as /ritzau/, is a Danish news agency founded by Erik Ritzau in 1866. It collaborates with three other Scandinavian news agencies to provide Nordic News, an English-language Scandinavia .... References External links Suomen Tietotoimisto STT News agencies based in Finland Mass media in Helsinki 1882 establishments in Finland Mass media companies established in 1882 21st-century Finnish politicians {{Finland-company-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VR Sr1 3089
VR may refer to: Arts, entertainment and education * Virtual reality, a computer technology that simulates an environment with which a user may interact as if it was actually there * ''Virtua Racing'', a 1992 arcade racing game by Sega * Vocational rehabilitation * Spectre VR, an enhanced version of ''Spectre'' * ''VR.5'', an American science fiction television series in 1995 * ''VR Troopers'', an American action television show from 1994 to 1996 Businesses * VR (company), a Finnish railway company, formerly known as Valtion rautatiet ''(State Railways)'' * Valdosta Railway, in the US state of Georgia * Victorian Railways, in the Australian state of Victoria * Viktor & Rolf, an Amsterdam-based fashion house * German Cooperative Financial Group (''Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken'') * Cape Verde Airlines (IATA airline code) Government and military * Vetenskapsrådet, the Swedish Research Council * Volunteer Reserves (United Kingdom) * Fleet Logistics Support, a squadron of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
