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In June 2024, a member of a Bzmot and Bzx train undergoing renovation, the Bzmot with track number 117 307, which had stopped years earlier due to a chassis failure, derailed in the Ludas station switching area and dragged two Bzx sidecars with it. The trains plowed the track thoroughly, knocked down a signal, damaged the overhead line system attachment and the platform. The damaged trains blocked the left track of railway line 80, which passes through Ludas II, for days. The accident train was forwarded by the 460 043 Szöcske from Miskolc so that the trains could be reborn in Szolnok. (It is already a story in itself that the renovation of Bzmot and Bzx in 2024 offers hope for solving the vehicle shortage, but that would be a longer topic.) After lifting the damaged vehicles back, the Szöcske went to move them to a stump, and then went to Ludas for the third time on July 2, 2024, to forward the train to Hatvan. Since the previous Bzmot 307 was traveling on relief bogies, the special train was 20/5 km/h, meaning it could travel at 20 km/h on the open line, but could only move at 5 km/h in the detour direction. The film provides details about the situation after the accident, as well as the forwarding of the damaged vehicle column to Hatvan, and some moments of the Szöcske's journey home.