LATEST: At 14.10 press officer Nordli contacts news and says that train traffic is running as normal again on the Vestfold Line. For the second time in two years, a crow has brought the Vestfold line to a standstill. On Thursday morning it happened again at Larvik station, and all trains between Sandefjord and Porsgrunn have been canceled until further notice. The bird caused a catenary to fall, says press officer Olav Nordli in Bane Nor. When crews from Bane Nor moved out to rectify the fault, they also quickly found the cause of the power cut. At the bottom left is the crow that brought the train to a standstill on Thursday. Photo: Tom Ole Buaas Must splice contact wire On the ground under the power line there is a dead crow. Bane Nor’s personnel at the site confirmed to news that the feathered creature must take the train stop on its coat. Now the contact wire must be spliced, explains repairer Tom Tyrdal. – It has smoked because of a crow that has been in a grounded facility. – How can that happen? – A large bird can of course come across a facility that is grounded and then there will be a short circuit. Then a wire can break, explains Tyrdal. – Do crows often stop train traffic? – It happens, that. There are birds and large birds that can do that. That’s how it is. The severed power cord was suspended in the air. Photo: Tom Ole Buaas / news The job was a blast – We are working hard at the site now and I would like to believe that the traffic will be up and running again in a couple of hours, said press officer Olav Nordli at 1.15pm. He believes it will be difficult to guard against crow attacks on contact lines in the future. – I have no obvious solution to this. I would like to think that it is difficult to prevent birds from destroying our contact wires, but luckily this happens very rarely, says Nordli. On his way to the dentist, Alexander Solberg was among the passengers who had to wait nicely as a result of the crow’s escapades along the railway line. Alexander Solberg hoped to make it to the dentist’s appointment in Tønsberg. Photo: Tom Ole Buaas / news – We saw that the trains were delayed and therefore came earlier to catch the bus, but it hasn’t turned up, said Solberg, who was supposed to take the train to Tønsberg for a dentist visit. – How does the dental appointment look? – It looks a bit scary. I tried to chat with Vy but they couldn’t give any answer about where the buses were. Solberg regularly commutes to Oslo and is used to waiting. He has also caught up with the crow story from the summer of 2021. – Crow again? Didn’t that happen this summer, or the year before there, at Sandefjord station, when the trains stopped for several months? I hope it won’t be as bad now. It would have been too comical. He admits that having to wait for the train can be annoying. – But now it has happened so many times that I have decided not to get in a bad mood. Although it can be annoying, the conductors are always polite and friendly, says Solberg.
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