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Doubledecker coaches

nobody@flickr.com (rbpdesigner) — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 09:25:48 -0800

Bruxelas, Bélgica.

Notícias sobre o acidente em Buizingen/Halle, cidade próxima a Bruxelas. Ao menos 18 pessoas morreram - Halle train crash: at least 18 dead after head-on collision in Belgium

nobody@flickr.com (rbpdesigner) — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:52:30 -0800

Bruxelles-Midi / Brussel-Zuid Railway Station - Bruxelas, Bélgica.
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Dois trens chocaram-se de frente na hora do rush em Halle, cidade que fica perto de Bruxelas, na Bélgica. A colisão ocorreu às 8h30 (horário local) e ao menos 18 pessoas morreram, segundo as primeiras informações fornecidas por bombeiros.

Testemunhas descreveram vários vagões virados e equipes de emergência disseram que a colisão causou grandes danos nas linhas de eletricidade da estação de Buizingen, onde ocorreu a tragédia. Ainda não há o número de feridos. Também não se sabe o motivo da colisão, mas testemunhas afirmam que a neve pode ter influenciado a segurança da pista.

Assista ao vídeo aqui, no site da BBC News

Fonte: Globo Online
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Eighteen people have been killed in a head-on collision between two passenger trains in Belgium, although the death toll could rise.

Railway officials said the trains collided during the morning rush hour at Halle, south-west of Brussels. One reportedly missed a stop signal.

"The devastation is enormous," said an official, as bloodied passengers were helped from the wrecked carriages.

Rail services to south-western Belgium, Paris and London were cancelled.

There were varying reports about the death toll, but eight hours after the crash the crisis centre set up to deal with the accident said 15 men and three women had been killed.

Other officials were reported as saying up to 25 people had died. There were reports of passengers still trapped in the wreckage hours after the crash.

The two trains collided in the commuter town around 0830 local time (0730 GMT).

The governor of Flemish Brabant province, Lodewijk De Witte, said one of the trains seemed to have missed a stop signal.

Belgium's track operator Infrabel said an investigation into the accident was under way, and it was difficult to speculate on the cause at this stage.

Television pictures showed carriages pushed up at an angle or leaning to the side from the force of the crash. Witnesses said people were thrown around violently inside the trains with one passenger describing the "carriages compacted together" by the collision. The two trains were carrying a total of about 250 to 300 people, a rail official said, AFP news agency reported.

Watch the video here, at BBC News site

Emergency workers said there was considerable damage to the overhead power lines at the station in Buizingen, the district of Halle where the trains crashed.

"The devastation is enormous," said Infrabel spokesman Bram De Saedeleer.

"Officials of the public prosecutor's office are at the scene and will supervise the investigation. Our first concern is for the victims."

Doctors were treating some of the injured at the scene of the crash, including performing amputations, while others had been taken to nearby hospitals.

Slightly injured passengers, said to number about 150, were taken to a sports hall for treatment.

But there has been confusion over the number of people killed and injured in the collision.

Belgian broadcaster VRT reported that sources with the national railway operator said 25 people had been killed, but the operator, SNCB, said it had not released an official figure.

Local mayor Dirk Pieters said "the most recent information we have is that 20 people died. I base this on what the police and firefighters tell me."

'Nightmare'

One passenger in the third carriage, Christian Wampach, told AP news agency: "It was a nightmare.

"We were thrown about for about 15 seconds. There were a number of people injured in my car but I think all the dead were in the first car."

A fellow passenger, Patricia Lallemand, said: "When we came out we saw dead bodies lying next to the tracks."

Infrabel said one train had been going from Leuven to Braine-le-Comte while the second train had been travelling from Quievrain to Liege.

The accident led to the cancellation of services between Brussels and Tournai or Mons. And Eurostar said its Brussels trains, including those to and from the UK, were cancelled until further notice.

Other high-speed trains between Paris and Brussels have also been cancelled.

In 2001, eight people were killed and 12 were injured in a head-on collision between commuter trains outside Brussels. It was thought that language difficulties between a Flemish-speaking signalman and a French-speaking colleague were a factor in that crash.

Another accident in 2008 left more than 40 people injured when a passenger train travelling in the wrong direction hit a goods train in central Belgium, AFP news agency said.

Font: BBC News
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A big thank you for Marc, who kindly provided the informations about the train.

About the Train

Belgian locomotive class 27 with M6 doubledecker coaches entering the station of Brussels North. These are the first of the 1980's generation of electric locomotives.
Builders : BN (mechanical parts) & ACEC (electrical parts).
Traction motors : 4 x LE921S.
One hour rating : 4250 kW.
Max. tractive effort : 234 kN.
Max. speed : 160 km/h.
Total weight : 85 tonnes.

Bruxelas - Brussels

nobody@flickr.com (rbpdesigner) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:46:52 -0800

rbpdesigner posted a photo:

Amanhecendo em Bruxelles-Midi / Brussel-Zuid Railway Station - Bruxelas, Bélgica.

Foto dedicada ao amigo Leo Sang, que curte bastante uma p&b.

A big thank you for Marc, who kindly provided the informations about the train.

About the Train

Belgian locomotive class 27 with M6 doubledecker coaches entering the station of Brussels North. These are the first of the 1980's generation of electric locomotives.
Builders : BN (mechanical parts) & ACEC (electrical parts).
Traction motors : 4 x LE921S.
One hour rating : 4250 kW.
Max. tractive effort : 234 kN.
Max. speed : 160 km/h.
Total weight : 85 tonnes.

Sobre Bruxelas

Bruxelas (em neerlandês Brussel e em francês Bruxelles) é a capital da Bélgica, capital da comunidade flamenga e, desde 2003, capital oficial da União Europeia.

Além de capital do país, Bruxelas constitui igualmente uma região administrativa separada da Bélgica, tal como a Flandres e a Valónia, mas é um enclave de Flandres. A Região de Bruxelas-Capital (em neerlandês "Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest") tem fronteiras coincidentes com as da cidade. Enquanto região autônoma, possui os órgãos de soberania próprios a cada uma das regiões, em conformidade com a organização federal do Estado. Assim, além de albergar o Parlamento Nacional belga, o Supremo Tribunal e os diversos ministérios federais, Bruxelas acolhe igualmente um parlamento e um executivo regionais e tribunais próprios. A cidade é igualmente capital da Região Flamenga (em neerlandês "Vlaanderen") e sede das respectivas instituições.

A cidade de Bruxelas está organizada em 19 "freguesias" (em neerlandês "gemeenten") - Bruxelas, Anderlecht, Auderghem, Berchem-Sainte-Agathe, Etterbeek, Evere, Forest, Ganshoren, Ixelles, Jette, Koekelberg, Molenbeek, Saint-Gilles, Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Schaerbeek, Uccle, Watermael-Boitsfort, Woluwe-Saint-Lambert e Woluwe-Saint-Pierre -, cada uma administrada por um burgomestre assistido por uma assembléia de vereadores.

Em 2007 a região tinha uma população de 1.031.215 habitantes, numa área de 161,382 km², o que lhe confere uma densidade populacional de 6.389 habitantes/km². A aglomeração urbana, que se estende para lá das fronteiras da região, tem cerca de 1774 mil habitantes.

About the Railway Station

Bruxelles-Midi / Brussel-Zuid (English: Brussels South, IATA code: ZYR) is a major railway station in Brussels, the capital city of Belgium. The station's bilingual French-Dutch name is often shortened outside Belgium – for example, in the Thomas Cook European Rail Timetable—to the (tri-lingual) "Brussels Midi/Zuid". The station is served by the Gare du Midi/Zuidstation station on the Brussels Metro system. There are over 1,000 daily trains between Brussels-South and Brussels-North.

The railway station designed by Payen opened in 1869, though a former station known as Station des Bogards/Bogaardenstation existed since 1840 near the Place Rouppeplein in the southern part of the city. This station was demolished 29 years later as it was already too small. In 1949 the railway station was demolished and replaced by the current yellow building with the clock tower because of the North-South connection project. The station is surrounded by the Avenue Fonsny/Fonsnylaan in the East, the Rue de France/Frankrijkstraat in the West, the Rue Couverte/Bedektestraat in the North and the Rue des Vétérinaires/Veeartsenstraat in the South. In the 1990s, the Eurostar/Thalys terminal was added along the Rue de France/Frankrijkstraat.

Ação em Bruxelas - Action in Brussels

nobody@flickr.com (rbpdesigner) — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:27:40 -0800

rbpdesigner posted a photo:

Amanhecendo em Bruxelles-Midi / Brussel-Zuid Railway Station - Bruxelas, Bélgica.

Sobre Bruxelas

Bruxelas (em neerlandês Brussel e em francês Bruxelles) é a capital da Bélgica, capital da comunidade flamenga e, desde 2003, capital oficial da União Europeia.

Além de capital do país, Bruxelas constitui igualmente uma região administrativa separada da Bélgica, tal como a Flandres e a Valónia, mas é um enclave de Flandres. A Região de Bruxelas-Capital (em neerlandês "Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest") tem fronteiras coincidentes com as da cidade. Enquanto região autônoma, possui os órgãos de soberania próprios a cada uma das regiões, em conformidade com a organização federal do Estado. Assim, além de albergar o Parlamento Nacional belga, o Supremo Tribunal e os diversos ministérios federais, Bruxelas acolhe igualmente um parlamento e um executivo regionais e tribunais próprios. A cidade é igualmente capital da Região Flamenga (em neerlandês "Vlaanderen") e sede das respectivas instituições.

A cidade de Bruxelas está organizada em 19 "freguesias" (em neerlandês "gemeenten") - Bruxelas, Anderlecht, Auderghem, Berchem-Sainte-Agathe, Etterbeek, Evere, Forest, Ganshoren, Ixelles, Jette, Koekelberg, Molenbeek, Saint-Gilles, Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Schaerbeek, Uccle, Watermael-Boitsfort, Woluwe-Saint-Lambert e Woluwe-Saint-Pierre -, cada uma administrada por um burgomestre assistido por uma assembléia de vereadores.

Em 2007 a região tinha uma população de 1.031.215 habitantes, numa área de 161,382 km², o que lhe confere uma densidade populacional de 6.389 habitantes/km². A aglomeração urbana, que se estende para lá das fronteiras da região, tem cerca de 1774 mil habitantes.

About the Railway Station

Bruxelles-Midi / Brussel-Zuid (English: Brussels South, IATA code: ZYR) is a major railway station in Brussels, the capital city of Belgium. The station's bilingual French-Dutch name is often shortened outside Belgium – for example, in the Thomas Cook European Rail Timetable—to the (tri-lingual) "Brussels Midi/Zuid". The station is served by the Gare du Midi/Zuidstation station on the Brussels Metro system. There are over 1,000 daily trains between Brussels-South and Brussels-North.

The railway station designed by Payen opened in 1869, though a former station known as Station des Bogards/Bogaardenstation existed since 1840 near the Place Rouppeplein in the southern part of the city. This station was demolished 29 years later as it was already too small. In 1949 the railway station was demolished and replaced by the current yellow building with the clock tower because of the North-South connection project. The station is surrounded by the Avenue Fonsny/Fonsnylaan in the East, the Rue de France/Frankrijkstraat in the West, the Rue Couverte/Bedektestraat in the North and the Rue des Vétérinaires/Veeartsenstraat in the South. In the 1990s, the Eurostar/Thalys terminal was added along the Rue de France/Frankrijkstraat.