Jasidih railway accident

In the railway accident at Jasidih on May 7, 1950, just before the Tamakhan Bridge near Jasidh (then: Bihar , today: Jharkhand ), part of the Punjab Mail from Calcutta (today: Kolkata ) to New Delhi fell from one Embankment .

A section of track had been removed, the locomotive and six carriages of the train derailed . The locomotive and three of the derailed cars fell off the embankment. 92 people died, 67 were seriously injured.

15 people were charged with complicity.

literature

• Peter WB Semmens: Disasters on the rails. A worldwide documentation. Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71030-3 , p. 127.

Web links

• Press release in The Gazette and Daily from York, Pennsylvania v. May 8, 1950, p. 30.
• NN: 100 killed in train wreck . In: Daytona Beach Morning Journal v. May 8, 1950.
• @ विश्वकर्मी सुतार लोहार समाज.