Getå

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Getå is a minor locality in Norrköping municipality, Sweden.

Getå Train Disaster

On October 1 1918 it was the site of the worst train accident in Swedish railroad history killing 42 people. Many passengers where burned alive as unreinforced wooden cars burned killing many who had survived the actual crash but where trapped in the wreckage.