page_title: 1999 Wuppertal Schwebebahn accident
section_title: Public memorials
hierarchical_section_title: 1999 Wuppertal Schwebebahn accident / Public memorials
caption_attribution_description: Schwebebahnstation Robert-Daum-Platz in Wuppertal
context_page_description: The Wuppertal Schwebebahn accident took place on 12 April 1999 on a stretch of track near Robert-Daum-Platz station. In this accident involving car number 4 from the WSW GTW 72 series, five persons lost their lives while 47 were injured, some of them seriously. This was the worst accident in the railway's history and, to date, the only one since the railway opened in 1901 to have had a deadly outcome.
context_section_description: On 12 April 2000, the first anniversary of the fateful day, Wuppertal's chief mayor (Oberbürgermeister) Hans Kremendahl and WSW's chairman of the board Rolf Krumsiek unveiled a memorial plaque to the victims of the accident. It can be found at Robert-Daum-Platz station. Later, on 18 April 2009, days after the accident's tenth anniversary, another memorial plaque was unveiled at a spot much nearer the accident site, on the north bank of the Wupper, a few metres from the steam pipe bridge onto which the train fell (and which has since been repaired).
caption: Memorial plaque at Robert-Daum-Platz station
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