4 November 2022 at 03:15 Work train derailed after rockfall – Sørlandsbanen blocked A rockfall has crossed the train track at Heskestad in Lund municipality in Rogaland and a work train has derailed. It will probably have major consequences for traffic. – A work train has got stuck. This happened just before 2 o’clock tonight, press officer Britt-Johanne Wang at Bane Nor tells NTB. According to Bane Nor, it will take time to get the locomotive back on the tracks and clear the track. How long this will take has not been clarified, but the Sørlandsbanen between Egersund and Moi is closed until further notice. What consequences the collapse will have on the morning traffic on Friday is uncertain. Sørvest police district states that the driver of the work train escaped with minor injuries. – He has received medical supervision on the spot and he is doing well, says operations manager Olaug Bjørnsen to NTB. She says that they were notified of the incident by the train conductor at 2.30am. The landslide is about one meter high and ten meters long, – It is not done in a jiffy to clean it up here. There is major material damage and several wagons have been derailed. The area is still uncertain, and it may be that a geologist needs to be contacted, according to the operations manager. The slide is described as around 1 meter high and 10 meters wide, and is a mixture of earth, stone and roots, the police report on Twitter. Go-Ahead’s local trains between Stavanger and Egersund, as well as regional trains between Oslo and Stavanger, are affected by the closure (NTB/news)
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