Both trains were Stadler Flirts

From what images and video I have seen, both sets were three-car FLIRT diesels. The line itself is a single track with PZB 90, an intermittent ATS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punktf%C3%B6rmige_Zugbeeinflussung

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Stadler_FLIRT_of_Bayerische_Oberlandbahn

Hmm... Their livery resembles the Hungarian FLIRTs a lot.

>>131820 -- Seems I was wrong. One was a three-car set, the other a six-car set.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Aibling_rail_accident
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenbahnunfall_von_Bad_Aibling

Some journos have been keeping up their trade's rumoured factual fidelity by claiming that the "Fahrdienstleiter" (train dispatcher/controller) had switched the protection system OFF to expedite a delayed train.

I forgot about it, but there are some prelims out. Seems the dispatcher was playing a game on his phone while working so his situational awareness was non-existent. That led him to bungle up the train orders, resulting in...

>>132832

>video games don't kill people

>>132832
How did automated signals not prevent this though? Are they seriously running commuter trains in dark territory?

The line is protected, not with a continuous ATS/ATP system but with an intermittent one, namely PZB 90 which does not give perfect protection against this kind of accident.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punktf%C3%B6rmige_Zugbeeinflussung

>>132838
How does a bloc signaling system not prevent this sort of thing? Did both driver call the tower and the controller allow both trains onto the same bloc?

AIUI, both drivers got clearances for the line due to the dispatcher's foggy mind. Anyway, re-read the wikipedia article mentioned in >>131825 as it has more detail than I can give.

>>132834
Alert the feminists; they'll save us!