Episode 235: The Eschede train disaster

A year ago this week, I covered the Amagasaki train derailment in 2005 in Japan. Why not cover a second one seven years earlier near a small town in Germany?

Videos:

• Seconds from Disaster: The Eschede derailment
• TS2018 Rail Disasters - Derailment at High Speed (1998 Eschede train disaster)
• What Went Wrong: Countdown to Catastrophe: The Eschede Disaster

Articles and books:

• Page about the Eschede train disaster memorial
• Germany recalls the Eschede train disaster
• The Cost of Comfort: The 1998 Eschede Train Derailment