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which was the highest station on the line. Between there and
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informed in the bulletin briefings at Tynset that there was an extra train scheduled to leave
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particularly bright. When the driver of Litra D noticed what was happening, he also pulled the brakes to slow his train down. At 23:57, the two trains collided just after Litra D had emerged from the tunnel.
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