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It doesn't look the same as the one in the image on the ANSA article - the GTW 2/6 has a slanted front, the one in the image does not. However, I'm not entirley sure if the one on the ANSA article is an actual picture of the train involved or a stock image of a train accident. [1]Wackywace (
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11:05, 12 April 2010 (UTC)reply
It is definitely a third generation GTW 2/6 made by Stadler Rail AG of Switzerland. There is a picture of the actual South Tyrol version of the train on the
Stadler GTW page. I'll add this info to the article.
Mu220:00, 12 April 2010 (UTC)reply
It's also better described as having two coaches, with a very short one bogie power unit in between, the train having only three bogies in total, and the power unit having a corridor through, so a "two passenger coach" train is a better description.
Mu220:05, 12 April 2010 (UTC)reply
Looks to me like a single articulated railcar of the "two bedrooms and a bath" style. So it's more of a light railcar than a proper train...
192.12.88.7 (
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20:39, 13 April 2010 (UTC)reply
Does anyone have a licenced image that we could use for this page? I know that ANSA article has one but it is copyrighted to them. If there is no image as of now, is there a possibility someone could produce a map showing the crash site?
Wackywace (
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11:08, 12 April 2010 (UTC)reply
Only a partial derailment? Media reporting/translations slightly exaggerated too?
At least some of the pictures (e.g. aerial ones) suggest a partial derailment only, of just the front coach and middle bit. Also the media talking about a risk of the train "falling" into the river really seem to mean the less dramatic act of sliding a bit further down a tree covered bank towards the river?
Mu220:41, 12 April 2010 (UTC)reply
It's still a derailment. Even if only one axle of a bogie in a 12 coach train is derailed, it's a derailment. The article can always be rewritten to state that not all vehicles were derailed (see
Marden rail crash).
Mjroots (
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20:52, 12 April 2010 (UTC)reply
Location and Naming convention
The article states that the crash happened at
Merano. The Guardian reports
here that the accident occurred at Castelbello. Italian Wikipedia also reports that the derailment occurred at Castelbello. Can we confirm exactly where the incident occurred?
Secondly, we have used the
Italian version for all names. The Wikipedia convention for Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol is that we use, where there is no well known
English name, the name used by the majority language group in the comune/gemeinde. Castelbello should, under this convention, be changed to
Kastelbell; Laces to
Latsch and Venosta Valley to
Vinschgau or
Vinschgau Valley, the names used for the pages on each of those subjects. The area as a whole is 96.51 per cent
German speaking, 3.41 per cent
Italian speaking, and 0.08 per cent
Ladin speaking. The other names quoted,
Merano,
Bolzano and the
Adige are in accordance with Wikipedia's naming policy, which is to use the
Italian version. This policy was agreed, after many months of edit warring, as the compromise solution for this linguistically mixed area, and appears to have prevented any repetition of the disruption that had previously occurred.
Skinsmoke (
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23:49, 12 April 2010 (UTC)reply
The initial reports all said Merano. I used the names given in the sources - Castelbello, Laces etc. I'm not sure that the article needs to be moved based on one source using a different name to all the rest.
Mjroots (
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04:08, 13 April 2010 (UTC)reply
The opening paragraph of the Guardian article linked above says At least nine people reported killed and 30 injured after landslide derails train near Italian city of Merano. I'd say that the article title is correct per
WP:COMMONNAME.
Mjroots (
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04:40, 13 April 2010 (UTC)reply
A quick note about the name of the article: first the train was came from
Mals and went to
Merano. It was a regular train of the
Vinschgaubahn (Vinschgau train), which services the
Vinschgau Valley. All 12 trains used on the line are Stadler GTW 2/6. One of these trains derailed between the villages of Latsch and Kastelbell
somewhere on this stretch of the line. "2010 Merano train derailment" is fine with me- more accurate would be 2010 Vinschgaubahn train derailment (article about the line in German:
de:Vinschgaubahn). Everything else is correct. --
noclador (
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07:37, 13 April 2010 (UTC)reply
I wasn't suggesting changing the title. Just that we got the detail of the story correct. I think 2010 Merano train derailment is fine for the title, as that is probably how it will be known, though time will tell.
Skinsmoke (
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13:25, 13 April 2010 (UTC)reply
Update?
The article say that an investigation is "under way"? As the accident happened nine months ago, perhaps the information needs to be updated?
Boneyard90 (
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15:53, 17 January 2011 (UTC)reply
It is not unreasonable for accident investigations to take a year or more before a final report is release. I'd say 2 years was a reasonable point at which we would expect to have had a report published and the article should be tagged as needing updating.
Mjroots (
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13:48, 18 January 2011 (UTC)reply
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