Heat wave: 450 passengers wait hours without air conditioning in ICE



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Heatwave in Germany 450 pbadengers wait hours without air conditioning in ICE

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ICE was on the open road without electricity – and therefore without air conditioning

Source: dpa [19659010] At 30 degrees and over the sun squeezed into an ICE stranded on a free stretch between Rotenburg and Verden. On board: 450 pbadengers. Without electricity, the air conditioning was no longer working.

V In this scenario, every train driver fears: sitting in the ice on one of the hottest days of the year – and then the air conditioning system falls Out of order. This is exactly what happened to the pbadengers of ICE 1171 on Wednesday. Due to a fallen tree, about 450 travelers had to spend hours on the train on a free stretch in Lower Saxony. The tree crashed on the airline during a storm Wednesday afternoon between Verden and Rotenburg / Wümme.

Without electricity, the air conditioning system did not work either. As a result, the doors of the train had been opened, said a spokesman for the federal police. Some pbadengers have gone out. According to the spokesman of the federal police, travelers were very quickly supplied with drinks. Damage to health is not known, reports the "Weser-Kurier". After two hours, the train was brought back to Rotenburg with a diesel locomotive

. In recent years, train cooling systems have sometimes been very hot. The series of breakdowns began in the summer of 2010 when, due to a technical fault, temperatures in an ice had risen to over 50 degrees and some pbadengers collapsed; Nine teenagers then went to the hospital. At that time, the train team as well as the German course came into criticism, for not having responded adequately to the crisis.

In this case, however, everything seems to be going well.

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