Fabrica railway accident

In the railway accident at Fabrica on September 2, 1954, a freight train derailed near the town of Fabrica in the north of the island of Negros in the Philippines and caused a bridge to collapse. 82 people died.

Starting position

An Insular Lumber Company train , which consisted of 23 flat cars with logs loaded and chained to the ground, drove down a steeply sloping route to the valley. There were also about 100 passengers on the freight wagons , mostly workers from the Insular Lumber Company and their family members.

the accident

According to a report in the Sydney Morning Herald , according to 16 freight cars from solved train , and to prevent - which ultimately failed - that these cars aufträfen on the train, which accelerated locomotive engineer his train considerably. The wagons drove onto the train as it crossed a wooden bridge. The bridge collapsed, some wagons derailed and five wagons fell into a gorge over 30 meters deep . Some of the chains holding the logs on the wagon broke. Rolling tree trunks injured or killed people. Many of the survivors were injured.

source

• NN: 82 Killed In Runaway Mountain-train Crash . In: The Sydney Morning Herald v. September 4, 1954, p. 1.

Coordinates: 10 ° 53 '26.2 "  N , 123 ° 21' 19.2"  E