A train derailed between Hackerbrücke and Hauptbahnhof. Apart from the train driver, there were no other people on the train on Wednesday afternoon, the federal police said. It was a shunting trip. The 24-year-old train driver suffered a shock but was not injured.
The regional train should be shunted to the main train station at around 5 p.m. in order to depart from platform 24 in the direction of Nuremberg. At the level of the Hacker Bridge, the train ran over a switch. According to the police, the driver’s cab, the part of the train in which the train driver sits, derailed while the remaining cars on the train remained on the tracks. The incident had only a minor impact on rail traffic. However, several access tracks to the Starnberg wing station are still closed.
It was not immediately clear why the train derailed. “Something like this always happens again,” said a spokeswoman for the federal police when asked. The officials first noticed a rail track that was bent at ten meters, impact marks on several concrete sleepers and damage to the bogie of the locomotive. It was not until the end of July that a regional train without passengers also derailed near the Hacker Bridge. The federal police are now investigating the threat to rail traffic.