Train crash near Kampot today, 18 Nov
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Train crash near Kampot today, 18 Nov
From Train Cambodia on FB:
If you plan to trake train in the next couple of days you should reconsider it. I took the train for the first time...everything was smooth since we left Phnom Penh until we had a frontal crash with a containers train coming into our directions just after Kampot. Hopefully trains go slow but still was quite scary. I don't get how they can manage to do this...1 way+2 trains = big sh*t for sure. We would have to wait 4 hours until a wagon come from Phnom Penh to pull us back until Kampot station. A chance I had a moto with me...anyway good luck, they say will take until next week to fix this.
If you plan to trake train in the next couple of days you should reconsider it. I took the train for the first time...everything was smooth since we left Phnom Penh until we had a frontal crash with a containers train coming into our directions just after Kampot. Hopefully trains go slow but still was quite scary. I don't get how they can manage to do this...1 way+2 trains = big sh*t for sure. We would have to wait 4 hours until a wagon come from Phnom Penh to pull us back until Kampot station. A chance I had a moto with me...anyway good luck, they say will take until next week to fix this.
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Re: Train crash near Kampot today, 18 Nov
Glad that it appears there were no injuries.
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Re: Train crash near Kampot today, 18 Nov
Trains collide in Kampot province
20 November 2017
- A passenger train rear-ended a cargo train in Kampot province yesterday, according to local police.
No one was injured in the crash.
Chief of staff of the district police Chhun Chhoeun said that the trains were going in the same direction when the accident occurred.
“These two trains were going from Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville when the passenger train rear-ended the other,” he said.
Hong Sarann, Boeung Touk commune police chief, said that the accident was caused by the fact that the first train used its brakes abruptly and the second one could not control its speed.
“There was no one injured from the collision. It damaged both trains, but slightly. It dented one carriage and two wheels,” he said.
Khmer Times
20 November 2017
- A passenger train rear-ended a cargo train in Kampot province yesterday, according to local police.
No one was injured in the crash.
Chief of staff of the district police Chhun Chhoeun said that the trains were going in the same direction when the accident occurred.
“These two trains were going from Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville when the passenger train rear-ended the other,” he said.
Hong Sarann, Boeung Touk commune police chief, said that the accident was caused by the fact that the first train used its brakes abruptly and the second one could not control its speed.
“There was no one injured from the collision. It damaged both trains, but slightly. It dented one carriage and two wheels,” he said.
Khmer Times
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Re: Train crash near Kampot today, 18 Nov
It's kinda surprising this happened barely two weeks after Royal Railway posted on their FB page they have introduced new train signalling (i.e. traffic lights) to improve safety. Even if the article is correct, how were they so travelling close together in the first place?
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Re: Train crash near Kampot today, 18 Nov
It really is amazing how many accidents Royal Railway has has since operations started last year. Anyone know the figures?
Seems a bi-weekly occurrence!
Seems a bi-weekly occurrence!
Re: Train crash near Kampot today, 18 Nov
I was thinking how the youth is for the Khmer children, such as play time for them, early education. We were lucky and had train sets, so learnt control and the likes.
Now scalextric was a different matter, when racing! How many times did the cars leave the tracks.
Now scalextric was a different matter, when racing! How many times did the cars leave the tracks.
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Re: Train crash near Kampot today, 18 Nov
The Toll Group have done well with a bucket of taxpayers money, was it 400 million?
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Re: Train crash near Kampot today, 18 Nov
I thought Toll were long out of it after losing 100mill.
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