Central mountain railway train derails

The result of a boy's prank. Nobody injured

Published: Innsbrucker Nachrichten / 24 July 1939

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Passengers on tram line 6 were very lucky on their journey home from Innsbruck in the summer of 1939. At that time, today's tram line 6 was a low mountain railway and was fully occupied. Today, the forest railway is just a tourist attraction. 

The article

A train of the Innsbrucker Mittelgebirgsbahn consisting of a railcar and four trailers, which had left the Berg-Isel station yesterday at 3.15 pm, derailed in the curve below the Tantegert stop. The railcar and two trailers jumped off the tracks. The train crashed into a mast of the overhead electric line, which was torn down. Fortunately, none of the passengers on the full train were seriously injured in the accident. On the other hand, the material damage is quite significant, as the overhead line was also destroyed and the carriages were badly damaged. Train services on the low mountain railway were interrupted. It is expected to be resumed in the course of today. The local railway used several buses yesterday to transport passengers to Jgls. It has been established beyond doubt that the accident was caused by stones that were presumably placed on the tracks by boys. The local railway authority had filed a complaint because of similar incidents, which had so far been accident-free. The consequences of such irresponsible pranks are illustrated by yesterday's accident, which was not too serious.