Tricky "final stop"

Red for a full Wiesel train: slide and fall

An overcrowded Wiesel train with an unplanned terminus: the result was more than just a big crush.(Bild: zVg)

Normally, double-decker Wiesel trains are also routed through the construction sites on the Northern line. Recently, however, an overcrowded train unexpectedly came to an end in Deutsch-Wagram: the crowds of people pushed outside, which was not without danger at the station and on the access roads for pick-ups.

While work is still underway to optimize the temporary wooden crossings during the renovation of Strasshof an der Nordbahn station, a similar construction site one station earlier, in Deutsch-Wagram, suddenly had a "red light" for an overcrowded double-decker Wiesel train with a correspondingly large traffic jam on the narrow exits.

Several hundred passengers can fit into a "Wiesel double-decker model".(Bild: zVg)

Then there were the blue lights: one person was heavily supported on the wet replacement wooden footbridge, as a passenger reported. "As there were a lot of people on site, help was provided immediately and the emergency services were called," said the eyewitness.

"Delays are the order of the day"
"Quite incidentally", as the letter further criticizes, there are currently constant train delays on the S1, as other photos document. And this results in a further risk: many children, young people and adults are regularly picked up by car due to train cancellations - which is why there is heavy traffic on the rest of the route to the terminus in Bernhardsthal: "For almost 60 kilometers, in the dark and in fog," as the letter complains.

The madness of a journey home after a long day at work: delays, rescue operations and driving in fog and darkness.

Pendler-Augenzeuge auf Heimreise mit der Nordbahn

Truck rammed into bridge, ÖBB explains
"The construction work along the northern line is taking place in successive short phases, with the impact on passengers always varying from phase to phase," says ÖBB, regretting delays and the incident mentioned above. The train had to be stopped because a truck had hit a bridge, explains a railroad spokesperson.