Tragedia de tren en la localidad de Coronel Brandsen - Bs As 1981

La Plata: Journalistic note at the Instituto General San Martin where 40 are injured from injuries received in the accident that occurred in the town of Coronel Brandsen when a train collided with passengers from the city of Mar del Plata with another freighter train , No. 5107, both belonging to the company Ferrocarriles Argentinos. Report to Mrs. Juana Gambino de Morabit and to another injured woman where they relate what happened in the railway tragedy. Journalistic note in the therapy room of the Melchor Romero Hospital where Mr. Domingo Fernández, a machinist on the firefly train that was driving from Mar del Plata to the Federal Capital, is hospitalized. Then the journalist asks the following questions: -Can you tell us what happened? - You were marching from Mar del Plata to the capital when you found the other train? -You run into the machine and cannot operate the brake circuits on the train? -At what speed was your train running? -And do you need a fairly long braking distance? -Is the impact very violent? "Do you hit the derailed train machine first?" (Magnetic / Color)
Reference: The train called Luciérnaga of the company "Ferrocarriles Argentinos" made up of 13 wagons, left Mar del Plata at 23.55 bound for Plaza Constitución with 803 passengers on board. At 4.30 in the morning, between Jeppener and Brandsen stations, about 8 km from the latter, between Kms 68 and 69 coming out of a curve, while driving at about 120 km / h, it collided with the tip of a wagon oil tanker from a freight train that had derailed a few minutes earlier from the uprail. 34 people died and 74 were wounded.
Date: 3/9/1981
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds
Film code: C-00991

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