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Author Thomson, Andrew, producer

Title Eschede Railway Station, Eschede, Germany / by Andrew Thomson and Madeleine Swain
Published Geelong, Australia : World Wide Entertainment, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (6 min.)
Series Infamous places ; 47
World history in video.
Summary German Train Crash: The worst high-speed train accident in the world to date took place here, near the village of Eschede in the Lower Saxony region of Germany. It involved an intercity express, or ice train named the Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen, which was travelling between Munich and Hamburg on the morning of the 3rd of June 1998. Having made a scheduled stop at Hanover, it was about six kilometers south of Eschede when a wheel rim broke and penetrated the floor of the first carriage. A passenger noticed the large piece of metal sticking up through the floor, but instead of pulling the emergency brake immediately he alerted the train conductor. Sea Gem: This is the North Sea, about 67 kilometers off the coast of Lincolnshire in England's north east. It was the site of the first ever British offshore oil rig, the Sea Gem, a 5600-ton steel barge converted into a rig by British Petroleum in 1964. It consisted of a helipad, living quarters for 34 workers and 10 steel legs that could raise the rig 15 meters above the ocean. On the 27th of December 1965, the sea gem collapsed, as it was being lowered into the water in preparation for its move to another site, about two nautical miles away. A subsequent public inquiry found that metal fatigue had caused two of the legs to crumple
Notes Previously released on DVD
Title from resource description page (viewed Sept. 1, 2011)
English
Subject Industrial design.
Offshore oil industry -- Accidents -- North Sea
Railroad accidents -- Germany -- Eschede
Industrial design.
Offshore oil industry -- Accidents.
Railroad accidents.
Atlantic Ocean -- North Sea.
Germany -- Eschede.
Genre/Form Documentary
Documentary television programs.
Nonfiction television programs.
Documentary television programs.
Nonfiction television programs.
Documentaires télévisés.
Émissions télévisées autres que de fiction.
Form Streaming video
Author Swain, Madeleine, narrator
Other Titles Sea Gem, off coast of Lincolnshire, England, UK