Railway accident at Hanno

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Railway accident at Hanno

The railway accident of Hannō ( Japanese. 八 高 線 列車 脱 線 転 覆 事故 , Hachikō-sen ressha dassen tempuku jiko , German "derailment and overturning on the Hachikō line") occurred on February 25, 1947 on the Hachikō line , in the Saitama Prefecture in Japan , between the stations Higashi-Hannō and Komagawa in today Hidaka , about 30 kilometers northwest of Tokyo . A train was carried out of a curve due to excessive speed, killing 184 passengers .

Starting position

The line has a significant gradient between the Higashi-Hannō and Komagawa stations. The train crashed downhill. It was made of old passenger cars with a wooden structure and was pulled by a steam locomotive. The train was very overcrowded, many travelers were on hamster rides .

the accident

The train derailed in a curve on a section with a gradient of 20 ‰. The last four of the six passenger cars overturned and fell 5.6 m from the track bed onto an adjacent field. The cause was excessive speed because the train had not been braked sufficiently. The wooden passenger cars were largely smashed, which contributed significantly to the extent of the accident .

consequences

184 people died and 495 were injured. At the time, this was the worst railway accident in post-war Japanese history. The accident prompted the replacement of the 3,000 or so passenger coaches still in use with wooden superstructures by vehicles made of steel .

literature

  • 歴 史 で め ぐ る 鉄 道 全 路線 国 鉄 ・ JR NO.45 埼 京 線 ・ 八 高 線 ・ 川 越 線 ・ 武 蔵 野 線 ・ 京 葉 線 [= Railway history JNR / JR No. 45: Saikyo Line, Hachiko Line, Kawagoe Line, Musashino Line, Keiyo Line ]. Asahi Shimbun publisher. 2010. p. 20.
  • Hideo Shima: Birth of The Shinkansen - A Memoir . In: Japan Railway & Transport Review 11, pp. 45-48.
  • Masao Saito: Japanese Railway Safety and Technology of the Day. (PDF, 2.4 MB) In: Japanese Railway & Transport Review (No. 33). East Japan Railway Culture Foundation, December 2002, pp. 4–13 (8f) , accessed on November 29, 2019 (English, Saito incorrectly mentions the year 1946 for the accident, probably an oversight).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hideo Shima: Birth of The Shinkansen.
  2. ↑ Railway history JNR / JR No. 45.

Coordinates: 35 ° 52 ′ 8 ″  N , 139 ° 20 ′ 14 ″  E