Swiss Train Crash

BBC NEWS | World | Europe | One dead in Swiss train crash

Even the hyper efficient Swiss have rail accidents. Discussion on the Swissrail list suggest the train ran through Oerlikon station, where it was supposed to have stopped, past a red signal, and hit another train travelling across the junction in front of it.

One difference between this and the procedures for dealing with accidents in Britain. I can't imagine the line being shut for two weeks, and several days before there'seven any attempt to start moving the wreckage while the police turn the site into the 'crime scene'. I expect the damaged trains will be gone by first light tomorrow morning.