Incidents and Accidents
Two Sr1 class locomotives have been damaged beyond repair and withdrawn from service: number 3048 in Jokela in 1996 and number 3089 in Jyväskylä in 1998. Five other locomotives have also been involved in accidents, but have been rebuilt or repaired afterwards.
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