研修施設で事故車両保存　福知山線脱線、一般公開せず―ＪＲ西

　ＪＲ福知山線の列車が兵庫県尼崎市のマンションに衝突、乗客１０６人が死亡した脱線事故で、ＪＲ西日本は１６日、事故車両を大阪府吹田市内の社員研修施設ですべて保存すると明らかにした。社員の安全教育に活用し、一般には公開しない方針。同県伊丹市内で開かれた遺族や負傷者らとの会合で説明した。
　同社の来島達夫社長は会合後に記者会見し、「事故を引き起こした立場として、車両を恒久的に保存する責務がある」と述べた。（2019/11/16-21:09）

West Japan Railway Co. , or JR West, plans to preserve all seven cars of a train that crashed in 2005 to kill 106 passengers at an employee training center, without opening any of them to the public.
   At the training facility in the city of Suita, Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, the firm will use the train cars for safety education for employees. The plan was unveiled at a meeting held in the city of Itami in Hyogo Prefecture, next to Osaka, on Saturday with bereaved relatives and people injured in the accident.
   "Our company, which caused the accident, has the responsibility to preserve the train cars permanently," JR West President Tatsuo Kijima said at a press conference after the meeting.
   The accident occurred during the morning rush hour on April 25, 2005. The seven-car rapid train packed with commuters derailed while traveling on a curve of JR West's Fukuchiyama Line in the city of Amagasaki, Hyogo, and crashed into a condominium building nearby. The driver of the train was also killed in the crash.
   JR West has to date kept some of the seven cars at a warehouse in the Hyogo city of Takasago and the rest at a facility of the company in the city of Osaka. Kijima said, "Preserving all seven cars at the Suita facility, which is designed for us to reflect on the accident, will allow us to offer comprehensive safety training for our employees."