Due to the fire that raged in a freight train near Etten-Leur on Wednesday afternoon, there will be no trains between Breda and Roosendaal until seven o’clock on Friday morning. That reports the NS. The freight train was carrying hybrid cars. Forty went up in flames.
The damage to the track is so extensive that the work is taking longer than expected. ProRail previously reported that no more trains would run on this route for the rest of Wednesday.
‘We have to renew wire over a length of a kilometer’
“The train must be towed in parts. Only then can the repair to the track take place,” the company reported in a new statement Wednesday evening.
“A towing locomotive tows the front part of the train to the shunting yard at Roosendaal station. The locomotive then returns to also bring the rear part of the train there. The other wagons will have to be removed from the track in their entirety. once that is done, we can repair the infrastructure. Over a length of a kilometer we have to renew wire. Catenary portals have also been damaged. It takes a lot of time to repair them.”
Catenary on the train
The fire in the freight train at Etten-Leur broke out around noon after an overhead wire ended up on the train. It is still unclear how this could have happened, according to ProRail.
The train would have been en route to Vlissingen Sloehaven. There were no passengers on the train. A lot of smoke was released during the fire. People nearby were warned to stay out of that smoke.
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