Prepare Site visitors Stopped On account of Avalanche on Nordlandsbanen: Employees Assessing Injury

Prepare site visitors in each instructions on the Nordlandsbanen is stopped after an avalanche south of Saltfjellet.

A northbound prepare will need to have entered the snow and ice avalanche with out damage to passengers, employees or supplies. The prepare will need to have moved on after this. However the employees of a southbound prepare thought it too harmful shortly afterwards to go the accident web site in the event that they reported the accident.

– We’ve known as groups after receiving a name from prepare crews on the southbound prepare a few snow and ice slide on the part between Dunderland and Bolna. The employees on the prepare thought-about it in order that they might not take the chance to go, says Harry Korslund, press officer at Bane NOR.

The message in regards to the slide got here in simply earlier than 8:00 pm on the night of Might 17.

– The groups will examine what it appears like the place the landslide occurred and there are a lot of indicators that snow and ice must be cleared, however it’s too early to say something about how lengthy it’ll take at the start is so as. Finally we’ll get up to date info primarily based on the way it appears on the location.

Korslund doesn’t need to talk about what’s the reason for the autumn and he clarifies that this isn’t one thing he’s accustomed to right now. However the climate in a position to to be the trigger.

– There may be nonetheless loads of snow within the mountains, and with the temperature now we have in Nordland and Helgeland, it’s cheap to suppose that it contributes to the landslide. I nonetheless do not understand how massive and the way broad the landslide is. Whether it is giant and broad, the work will have an effect on it. If it is comparatively small and restricted, that work would not should take so lengthy, however for now there’s loads of uncertainty as to how a lot and the way lengthy it’ll take for site visitors to work once more, he says.