Rail transport, according to the public, is considered the least dangerous. Most passengers would prefer it to him, if the question of the duration of the trip is not considered the main one. Although according to statistics, injuries during air travel are still less. Everyone knows that tragic accidents with trains are possible, but everyone hopes that this will not happen to them. Meanwhile, the disappointing “primacy” among all types of passenger transportation belongs to road transport.
Rail accidents
Transportation by this type of transport is associated with a high concentration of freight or passenger traffic. To ensure the efficiency of deliveries, it is necessary to tighten schedules, increase the number of cars in trains. This leads to additional loads on the railway tracks, the canvas under them, supporting structures. Depreciation of trains, locomotives, regulatory and dispatching equipment is increasing. The load on the management and maintenance personnel of the railway is also growing. Everything is taken into account, it seems to be in compliance with the standards, but train accidents do happen.
Each crash has its own story, causes, consequences. The derailment of the train, causing it to tip over, rarely does without human casualties. Injuries and injuries cannot be avoided. This is due to the design features of the cars, the principles of placing passengers in them, their attitude to the possibility of situations that could pose a threat to life and health. At the same time, it is difficult to imagine how to effectively improve passenger safety. The derailment of the train and the rollover of a car are accidents that cannot be prepared for. The only right decision is a set of measures to reduce the rice of their occurrence.
Technical reasons
As it turns out, writing on paper is easier than translating. One of the main reasons is the technical condition of the railways. It is no secret that the bulk of them were laid several decades ago. Since then, speeds and loads have increased. But there is no way to change the way under new conditions or to lay new ones. This is associated with serious costs. In the best case, a partial replacement of the blade is carried out in areas with the most pronounced wear.
The same can be said of rolling stock. The technique also wears out, metal aging is inevitable. Therefore, train accidents are inevitable, but care must be taken not to allow them. But how? If the composition does not start without replacing the worn engine parts, then it will still train with the production of wheelsets. This approach is partially justified - do not stop the mass transportation. It is necessary to devote more time to inspections and additional maintenance. But this does not make wagons newer.
Human factor
Accidents and crashes for these reasons are not predictable. But it’s one thing if the crash of a passenger train is due to objective reasons. The human body is a flexible system, but it is not iron. Both the dispatcher and the driver can have health problems. Not every physical examination can reveal these risks.
Another issue, when the cause of the crash is the dishonest performance of official duties, negligence, gross violation of safety rules. Especially revealing are cases when an investigation into the causes of accidents reveals the facts of being drunk at the workplace.
How to justify the actions of the driver, trying to make up for the delay in the journey by increasing speed in a dangerous area? And the situation when, when cleaning the cabin, the cleaner was able to accidentally set in motion a locomotive standing “under the pairs” and at the same time there was not a single specialist on it to stop it?
Racing train drivers for the right to be the first to enter the station and ignoring the prohibitive semaphore signal is the height of cynicism towards passengers. The unpreparedness of train crews to eliminate the consequences of a fire and the frequent lack of means to extinguish them can have sad consequences even without the fact of a train crash. The above situations are far from a complete list of neglect of official duties at transport facilities with an increased risk to life.
Fatal crashes: train wrecks
It is difficult to compare the severity of the consequences of disasters if there were human casualties and a large number of injured passengers. But in order to understand the danger of an accident on the railway, you need to remember at least some of them. So, the accident in the Krasnoyarsk Territory in 1958 occurred during the collision of two freight trains carrying oil products in tanks. The reason is a malfunction of the semaphore. On a parallel path then was a passenger train. The fire after the explosion killed more than 60 people.
Rostov Region, 1987. Then, in front of the station, he could not slow down, and after that he urgently braked the locomotive of the freight train. Safety regulations were violated as a result of a collision with a passenger train standing near the apron. The result of the crash: more than 100 people died and even more were seriously injured.
Ufa, 1989. The leakage of liquefied gas on the main pipeline led to the explosion of a cloud of its vapor. This happened in the immediate vicinity of the tracks along which two passenger trains were passing at that time. The largest catastrophe in the USSR then claimed the lives of almost 600 people.
Train accident in dreams
Oddly enough, the human brain, even in the absence of mention of rail travel in some cases, is able to reproduce them in the subconscious. Moreover, according to the researchers, dreams with train wrecks can also have a warning character. So far, there is no way to confirm or deny that such visions can be prophetic in nature. However, it makes sense to at least think about the causes of their occurrence.
The accident on the railway, seen in a dream, can symbolize the need to be careful and be prepared for any unexpected situations. First of all, according to experts, this concerns financial issues. If a person is in the epicenter of a catastrophe in his visions, but everything is going well, then there are prerequisites in real life to get out of a serious situation without significant damage. If you still couldn’t avoid the damage, such a dream can warn of frivolity and imprudent acts, which are most likely doomed to failure in advance.