GERMANY OFF THE RAILS

RMT helpline 0800 3763706 :: september 2008 :: RMTnews 12 A SECOND ESCHEDE? Rescue workers search for survivors after a high speed train slammed into a vehicle that had plunged off a bridge onto tracks in Eschede, northeastern Lower Saxony, Germany, on June 3 1998. At least 60 people were killed and 200 injured in the train crash. German Railway Safety Board wrote in its first report of a derailment in July this year, "there was danger of a second Eschede". GERMANY OFF THE RAILS Dr Winfried Wolf of the German anti-rail privatisation group Bahn fur Alle (BfA) warns that profit not safety lay behind plans to sell off the network to the highest bidder