Developed following the Rastatt incident in 2017, the ICM Handbook is designed to improve responses to disruptions along the Rail Freight Corridor network. Christiane Warnecke and Alessandro Fattorini from the Rhine-Alpine Rail Freight Corridor talk with David Burroughs about how guidelines from the handbook and other lessons learned from the Rastatt incident were put into practice following an accident at Auggen in April.
Learning the lessons of Rastatt
Developed following the Rastatt incident in 2017, the ICM Handbook is designed to improve responses to disruptions along the Rail Freight Corridor network. Christiane Warnecke and Alessandro Fattorini from the Rhine-Alpine Rail Freight Corridor talk with David Burroughs about how guidelines from the handbook and other lessons learned from the Rastatt incident were put into practice following an accident at Auggen in April.
2BC59XD Auggen, Germany. 03rd Apr, 2020. A damaged locomotive stands crooked on the tracks after an accident. The locomotive had hit a concrete slab that had broken out of a bridge and fallen onto the tracks. The locomotive driver was killed in the accident. Credit: Patrick Seeger/dpa/Alamy Live News