At the Railway accident near Halfweg on 22 November 1972, the locomotive of a work train derailed near Halfweg in North Holland.
On 22 November 1972 derailed diesel locomotive No. 2279 (class 2201-2350), which hauled a work train near Halfweg. After the derailment it came in the mud beside the embankment to a standstill. It had to be wrecked in situ.[1] Although the locomotive had just been refurbished in the Tilburg workshops, it could not be salvaged from the accident site, which was very muddy being a combination of peat and swamp. The longer the locomotive was left there, the more it sank into the muddy soil.[2] One bogie had to be left embedded in the mud.[1]