A tragic train collision occurred behind the Bettembourg station five years ago to this day.

At 9.00 a.m. on 14 February 2017, an empty passenger train from Luxembourg and a Belgian freight train coming from Thionville entered a frontal collision. Although the Luxembourgish conductor did not survive the crash, only two other people were injured during the accident.

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Not much information was released in the immediate aftermath of the railway crash. Minister for Mobility and Public Works François Bausch then later addressed the press that same day, explaining that the conductor had been trapped in the debris of both trains and that he was unlikely to survive: "My thoughts are with the family of the victim."

Analyses of the crash showed that the CFL train drove 85 km/h at the time of the collision. The cause of the accident was later ruled to be a combination of both human and technical failure. The conductor did not observe a stop sign which made the collision inevitable, but none of the security alerts went off as a result.