page_title: ÖBB Class 1044
section_title: Accidents
hierarchical_section_title: ÖBB Class 1044 / Accidents
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Am 1. Dezember 2015 kam es auf der Semmeringbahn vor dem Bahnhof Semmering zu einer Zugtrennung und einer damit verbundenen Zwangsbremsung eines bergauf fahrenden Holzzugs, der 205 Tonnen schwerer war als erlaubt. Der nachfolgende Güterzug musste am vorherigen Streckenblock anhalten. Die ÖBB 1144 282 wurde mit der Absicht nachgeschickt, am Schluss des wartenden Zuges anzukuppeln und ihn zurück zum Bahnhof Breitenstein zu bringen. Während der Anfahrt der Hilfslokomotive setzte sich der wartende Zug unbeabsichtigt rückwärts bergab in Bewegung, so dass es im Polleros-Tunnel zum Zusammenstoß mit der bergauf fahrenden Hilfslokomotive kam. Etliche Containerwagen entgleisten und wurden zerstört, die Hilfslokomotive sowie die Gleis-, Oberleitungs- und Signalanlagen im Tunnel wurden schwer beschädigt. Der Sachschaden betrug mehr als fünf Millionen Euro. Beschädigte Hilfslokomotive 1144 282 im Polleros-Tunnel
context_page_description: The ÖBB Class 1044 is a class of universal electric locomotives operated by the Austrian Federal Railways. The class is capable of hauling either heavy passenger traffic or goods trains on both lowland and mountainous routes.
  At the time of its entry into service, the Class 1044 was the most powerful class of four-axle locomotives in the world. Until the introduction of the Class 1016 locomotives, it was the showpiece class of the ÖBB. All members of the class, except its two prototypes, have now been converted into Class 1144 locomotives.
context_section_description: On 13 February 1993, a 1044 241 locomotive was involved in a collision at Melk railway station, severely damaging the locomotive.
  On 11 August 1995, an intercity from Vienna to Lindau hauled by 1044 047 and with an unknown 1042 locomotive as a bank engine derailed at Braz on the Arlbergbahn when a bridge was washed away by storms. The 1044 locomotive and two passenger cars fell into a small stream and were damaged. Three people were killed after the accident and another 100 were severely injured. The locomotive was so badly damaged in the accident that it was scrapped in the same year.
  On 12 December 1995, 1044 235 unit was involved in a head-on collision with a DRG Class ET 91 train, commonly known as the "Glass Train" at Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The accident destroyed the trainset, and despite reconstruction efforts it was rendered unusable due to a heavily damaged bogie (it was the only train of the class that had survived, as the other one was bombed during American air raids during WW2).
  Another unknown 1044 locomotive was involved in an accident at Vienna-Kledering on 17 November 2001, in which a SPAD was committed by the locomotive. Despite quick braking, the locomotive struck an S-Bahn train that was being diverted onto another track and injured 6 people.
  On 10 February 2014, two Siemens ES64F4 locomotives of Lokomotion and Rail Traction Company were uncoupled from a Ro-La train that ran away from the Ro-La terminal at Brennero. The train was derailed after it hit a dead end stub track where 1144 281 fell off the embankment, scraping a building in this process. No major damage occurred.
  On 1 December 2015, 1144 282 was involved in an accident at Semmering where the locomotive slammed into a heavy freight train that got stuck on the climbing section of the Semmering Railway. The train had stopped there, awaiting for a banking engine to come and help it but accidentally rolled backwards, unknown to the drivers of the 1144. Fourteen container cars derailed, two of them in the tunnel, and the cab of the locomotive was severely damaged, with the train driver being injured.
caption: The crushed cab of 1144 282
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