The now deceased crow that came across live metal on July 27, triggered a fire with major damage at Sandefjord station.
And blocked train traffic through a junction on one of the country’s busiest train routes – the Vestfold line.
Since then, there is a bus for trains between Skien and Tønsberg, past electricity and crow-damaged Sandefjord.
After two months, there are trains for buses again from Monday 27 September also on this stretch, almost as normal.
– Due to technical limitations for a year, the timetable will be slightly reduced until everything new is in place. The reason is that oncoming trains must meet and cross each other at places other than Sandefjord station, says communications manager Britt-Johanne Wang in Bane NOR to Dagbladet.
Cutter in rush hour
Vy chooses to cut the least used departures during rush hours in the morning and afternoon.
Here can you check Show train routes along the entire Vestfold line and everywhere else.
In 2019, 7.8 million passengers used the train between Eidsvoll and Skien with the largest “impact” on the route Oslo – Tønsberg.
How can a bird – in this case a crow – do so much on infrastructure?
ACCIDENT BIRD: Crow triggered fires on and around Sandefjord station. And at the same time contributes to the modernization of the busy train section Vestfoldbanen. Illustration photo: Paul Kleiven / NTB.
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Communications manager Britt-Johanne Wang explains simply – and apologizes to the crow.
– We call it the bird of misfortune. It was he who was unlucky and triggered the fire and prolonged train stop. But the error had occurred earlier. There was already power going astray, and a situation could arise sooner or later, she says.
Never so bad that it is not good for anything:
The crow fire causes the Sandefjord and Vestfold line to have a brand new and digitized distance protection a few years ahead of schedule.
From the 50s and 60s
– This is a system that makes it possible to keep control of the trains passing each other safely. The plant, which was damaged and destroyed, was started in the 1950s and 60s and had to be replaced. It will take a year, says Wang.
Because the start of construction came on abruptly, the tender rounds have not been clarified. Thus, Bane NOR can not say now how many millions the crow fire will cost.
Replacement and million costs would come anyway, but only later in the 2020s.
And at Sandefjord station, a temporary fuse box has been built, which has the same function as fuses in a home.
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