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  • Re: OT: Head-on train crash near Machu Picchu kills one and injures 40

    From Nobody@jock@soccer.com to uk.railway on Fri Jan 9 09:13:43 2026
    From Newsgroup: uk.railway

    On 2026-01-02 12:51 a.m., Ulf Kutzner wrote:

    Recliner <recliner.usenet@gmail.com> posted:

    From
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/12/31/train-crash-machu-picchu-peru-deaths-injuries/


    Most visitors take a train from the nearby town of Aguas Calientes to the
    Unesco World Heritage site.

    Hm.

    https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahnstrecke_Cusco%E2%80%93Quillabamba
    reads like tourists travel from Cusco San Pedro or -Poroy to Aguas
    Calientes which is a more or less new station close to Machu Picchu.

    No! Aguas Calientes is the town beside the Urubamba which serves as the access point to visit the Machu Picchu site, which is high above, w-a-y
    up a switch-back road.

    https://postimg.cc/SXNnRG9t

    The throat for Aguas Calientes station is in the bottom left.

    AFAIK, there's no passenger rail service from Cusco-San Pedro.
    Cusco-Poroy became the terminus to cut down the travel time from Cusco
    as the section between winds down into the city. You can follow the
    track with Google Maps. Supposedly too many impatient tourists were complaining about the time to travel the whole route.
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  • From Recliner@recliner.usenet@gmail.com to uk.railway on Fri Jan 9 17:23:40 2026
    From Newsgroup: uk.railway

    Nobody <jock@soccer.com> wrote:
    On 2026-01-02 12:51 a.m., Ulf Kutzner wrote:

    Recliner <recliner.usenet@gmail.com> posted:

    From
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/12/31/train-crash-machu-picchu-peru-deaths-injuries/


    Most visitors take a train from the nearby town of Aguas Calientes to the >>> Unesco World Heritage site.

    Hm.

    https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahnstrecke_Cusco%E2%80%93Quillabamba
    reads like tourists travel from Cusco San Pedro or -Poroy to Aguas
    Calientes which is a more or less new station close to Machu Picchu.

    No! Aguas Calientes is the town beside the Urubamba which serves as the access point to visit the Machu Picchu site, which is high above, w-a-y
    up a switch-back road.

    As I mentioned in my post which started this thread, where I pointed out
    the error in the report. Ulf apparently missed that, and felt the need to correct the error again.


    https://postimg.cc/SXNnRG9t

    The throat for Aguas Calientes station is in the bottom left.

    AFAIK, there's no passenger rail service from Cusco-San Pedro.
    Cusco-Poroy became the terminus to cut down the travel time from Cusco
    as the section between winds down into the city. You can follow the
    track with Google Maps. Supposedly too many impatient tourists were complaining about the time to travel the whole route.




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