continued through the station and exited on the north end without stopping. In the darkness, the crew on no. 361 had not realized that the green signal which would have marked an "all clear" out of Marienborg was missing, and that the semaphore had been set at "danger". The firemen had been distracted by a problem with the engines lubricator, and missed that they did not have "all clear" signals through Marienborg. The train manager in the first carriage was also supposed to look out for a manual signal by the station guard as they passed through Marienborg, but he had some trouble with opening and closing the window, and in the seconds lost fumbling with it, he failed to notice that there was no guardsman there. The driver did notice a jolt as the train drove against the points as they left the station, and slowed slightly to figure out what was going on. Wiig desperately called the next station 900 m to the north, Skansen, ordering them to stop the extra train Litra D, but this train had already passed that station. Collision was now inevitable. Collision The driver on no. 361 was the first to realize that they were on a collision course as he saw the lights of Litra D emerging from the tunnel. The driver of Litra D realized the same only a few seconds before impact. Litra D was in a tunnel and the headlight on the incoming train no. 361 was not 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. The large and heavy engines were damaged, but mostly in one piece, engine 182 which had hauled train no. 361 was the most severely damaged of these which sustained a destroyed cylinder. Behind no. 182, the conductor's carriage had been seriously damaged and the train manager was wounded. The great losses took place in the extra train Litra D. The luggage car running behind the two engines was tossed aside, but the second and third cars, sleeping carriages, had been crushed as they bored into one another and tipped over. Crushing of these two cars had dissipated most of the energy, and behind this the wreckage of these two cars, the train was mostly