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1999 Wuppertal Schwebebahn accident

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Wuppertal Schwebebahn
12. April 1999 Ganz Wuppertal steht unter Schock
12. April 1999 Ganz Wuppertal steht unter Schock

The Wuppertal Schwebebahn accident (German: Schwebebahnunfall) took place on 12 April 1999 on a stretch of track near Robert-Daum-Platz station. In this accident involving car number 4 from the WSW GTW 72 series, five persons lost their lives while 47 were injured, some of them seriously. This was the worst accident in the railway's history and, to date, the only one since the railway opened in 1901 to have had a deadly outcome.

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1999 Wuppertal Schwebebahn accident
Wupperweg, Wuppertal Arrenberg

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42117 Wuppertal, Arrenberg
North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Diakonie Aprath

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12. April 1999 Ganz Wuppertal steht unter Schock
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