Canaan Railway Accident
In the Canaan railway accident , incorrectly transmitted information on September 15, 1907 near Canaan , New Hampshire , USA , resulted in a head- on collision between a freight train and a passenger train . 26 people died.
Starting position
The train sequence on the single-track route was determined by a local dispatcher . This forwarded his instructions to the departments along the route, which in turn handed them over to the train crew. The freight train and the passenger train No. 30 used the route in opposite directions.
the accident
It was then no longer possible to clarify whether the supra-local dispatcher or the on-site employee had inadvertently used "train no. 34" instead of "train no. 30" when issuing the travel command . The train no. 34 reversed as planned 20 minutes after the train no. 30. Therefore, the train driver was the freight train by mistake from a set before him free range from continued his journey and collided with the train no. 30. Here, pushed the Tender the locomotive of the passenger train and the following van in the first passenger car , where 26 people died.
See also
literature
- Peter WB Semmens: Disasters on the rails. A worldwide documentation. Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71030-3 .