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The railway line between Florence and Bologna, important for the north-south connections, was shut down for hours, both for regional and long-distance traffic. Hundreds of passengers were stranded at many train stations, for example in Rome and Milan. The Trenitalia railway company reported that a total of 36 high-speed trains had been canceled in the morning and many other long-distance trains were diverted with long delays.
An intercity train between Milan and the southern Italian city of Salerno came to a halt shortly before Florence on the open route at around 02:00 due to a power failure as a result of the freight train accident. More than 100 passengers waited hours into mid-morning for the train to be pulled into a station. The railway police provided the prisoners with food and drink.
Why the carriage of the freight train derailed cannot be explained for the time being, a railway official said, according to the Ansa news agency.
(SDA)
Source: Blick
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