Railway accident near Halfweg (1972)

On 22 November 1972 derailed diesel locomotive No. 2279 (class 2201-2350), which hauled a work train near Halfweg. After the derailment it came in the mud beside the embankment to a standstill. It had to be wrecked in situ.^[1] Although the locomotive had just been refurbished in the Tilburg workshops, it could not be salvaged from the accident site, which was very muddy being a combination of peat and swamp. The longer the locomotive was left there, the more it sank into the muddy soil.^[2] One bogie had to be left embedded in the mud.^[1]

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