What the records say
- When
- 3 Dec 1988
- Kind
- Rail accident
- Coordinates
- 51.29° N, 14.99° E
- Description
- train crash near the East German – Polish border
- Deaths
- 8
Węgliniec–Roßlau railway
Railway line in Germany and Poland
The Węgliniec–Roßlau (Elbe) railway is a mainline railway in the Polish voivodeship of Lower Silesia and the German states of Saxony, Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt, originally built by the Berlin-Anhalt Railway Company and the Upper Lusatian Railway Company as part of the trunk line from Breslau to Magdeburg.
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