List of attacks in rail transport

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This list of attacks in rail traffic includes events in which the intention was to specifically cause a rail traffic accident.

Accidents and damaging events that occur during normal operation and cannot be traced back to specific external influences are recorded in the list of serious accidents in rail traffic and boiler blasts.

19th century

1801 to 1850

Priestewitz ( Saxony ) 

April 7, 1839 - Unfavorable competitors of Johann Andreas Schubert , the designer of SAXONIA , had adjusted a switch so that the locomotive ran into another, parked locomotive. The property damage was minor. This story is now classified as an anecdote .

→ Main article : “History” in the article LDE - Saxonia

Main Neckar Railway ( Hesse ) 

September 23, 1848 - Revolutionaries in the Baden Revolution loosened small iron bars on the sleepers and undermined a track yoke. Two locomotives that pulled an empty train derailed and fell from the embankment. The employees of the railway got away with their lives.

1851 to 1900

Platte River ( United States ) 

September 3, 1861 - In an attack on the plate Bridge by guerrillas of the South in the American Civil War on a train of the Northern States nearly 20 people were killed. The attack affected a mixed train on the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad and a bridge on their railway line , which was the first to cross the state of Missouri . Among other things, it opened up the eastern terminus of the Pony Express in Saint Joseph and was therefore of considerable strategic importance. The guerrillas damaged the supports of the 50-meter-long bridge over the Platte River in such a way that this could not be seen from the train. When the train from Hannibal to St. Joseph drove onto the bridge in the dark at around 11:15 p.m. , it collapsed under the train with its 100 passengers and its vehicles fell ten meters deep into the river. The Union army issued orders to pursue and shoot the guerrillas . The Confederation claimed the assassination attempt as a legally permissible act.

Beja ( Portugal ) 

September 18, 1865 - A train was stopped by an emergency brake due to deliberate damage to the superstructure . Travelers were thrown from the train. Three dead and two seriously injured were the result.

Schwarzenau ( Austria ) 

November 4, 1875 - By loosening the fastenings of a section of track on the outer rail in a curve that led to a bridge at Schwarzenau station on a 10 meter high embankment with a 5 ‰ gradient, a passenger train derailed from Vienna Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof to Prague along the tangent of the curve arc. At least nine people died.

→ Main article : Schwarzenau railway accident

Chillón ( Spain ) 

April 27, 1884 - After unknown perpetrators damaged a bridge over the Alcudia river , a train crashed into the river. 59 people were killed. This was the worst railway accident in the history of Spain to date.

→ Main article : Chillón railway accident

Unfortunate train of the Tsar

Kharkov ( Russia ) 

October 17th ^Jul. / October 29,  1888 ^greg. : Probably not an assassination attempt was the accident of the court train of Tsar Alexander III. at Borki . However, rumors persisted in this regard. The train derailed on its way from Crimea to St. Petersburg south of Kharkov . 23 travelers died. The information on the injured varies between 12 and 36 people. The royal family remained uninjured, although the dining car in which they were staying at the time of the accident was badly damaged. The cause of the accident was never clarified as the railway company and state officials mutually blamed each other. Presumably, the cause of the accident was a combination of a serious train that too fast an insufficient superstructure was driving.

→ Main article : Borki railway accident

Lincoln ( United States ) 

9 August 1894: - On a 13-meter high and about 130 feet long truss bridge of Chicago, skirt Iceland and Pacific Railroad were at Wilderness Park in Lincoln , Nebraska , rail spikes removed. A train from Fairbury , Nebraska, consisting of a locomotive and two passenger coaches , crossed the bridge at around 9:20 p.m. The train derailed and crashed. The locomotive's fire box broke open and the wooden wagons caught fire. Eleven of the 33 passengers on the train were killed. The investigation revealed that the railway system had been deliberately damaged and the train derailed as a result. Police arrested the African American George Washington Davis, who is said to have been seen near the scene of the accident at the time of the accident. After two trials before a jury , he was convicted of manslaughter in a purely circumstantial trial - he himself always denied the act . A murder conviction failed. A motive could never be proven to him. He was pardoned after ten years by Governor John H. Mickey .

20th century

1901 to 1910

Horrem (Kerpen) ( German Empire ) 

November 28, 1901 - At around 7 p.m. passenger train No. 640 from Verviers to Cologne Central Station derailed near Horrem station because a replaced old rail that was stored between the tracks had been laid across the track and fastened with wire . Four dead, three seriously injured and twelve slightly injured were the result.

Drebkau ( German Empire ) 

May 29, 1903 - At Drebkau station, passenger train No. 983 derailed on the Grossenhain – Cottbus line after a drunken carpenter had laid a sleeper across the track. The locomotive and three following cars derailed, with the car directly following the locomotive being completely smashed. One dead, three seriously and five slightly injured were the result.

Between Aachen and Cologne ( German Empire ) 

Summer 1906 - A mentally disturbed person derailed the Orient Express without causing any material damage. Presumably it was the Ostend-Vienna-Express. The Orient Express did not run this route.

Rehfelde ( German Empire ) 

September 3, 1907 - After the fastening screws in the sleepers of a piece of rail had been loosened, express train No. 6 derailed at night from Insterburg to Berlin at a speed of approx. 85 km / h at Rehfelde station. Some of the car overturned. Grease tanks in the dining car broke, the gas leaked out and caught fire. The car burned completely, the two neighboring cars half burned. One traveler was burned and eight people were injured. For catching the perpetrator or perpetrators, a reward of initially 2,000 marks was offered , which was later increased to 5,000 marks - in vain.

1911 to 1920

Sarry ( France ) - Crash after a bridge was blown 

September 17, 1914 - The French military blew up a bridge over the Marne near Sarry without notifying the responsible railway workers or securing the route themselves. A hospital train crashed into the gap. 57 people were killed.

→ Main article : Sarry railway accident

Rossendale -Edenfield ( United Kingdom ) 

September 25, 1916 - In a bomb attack by a German Zeppelin - Airship was the station of Ewood Bridge and Edenfield on the railway line from Bury to Bacup destroyed.

Homburg ( German Empire ) 

February 9, 1917 - Near Homburg , on the Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway, the D 32 derailed after an air raid .

London ( United Kingdom ) 

June 13, 1917 - German aircraft of the type Gotha GI bombed during World War I to, among others, Liverpool Street Station . This was the first such attack. A 1,000 pound bomb hit the station, killing 162 people and injuring 432 as well.

Gjunis ( Serbia ) 

October 11, 1917 - In Gjunis on the railroad Belgrade-Nis were bars busted . As a result, a “transport train” derailed and all of its vehicles fell down a railway embankment. There were numerous dead and injured.

Schneidemühl ( German Empire ) 

January 20, 1920 - Between Schönlanke and Schneidemühl , three perpetrators loosened the screw connections on the rails and thus derailed a freight train . A following express train could no longer be warned in time and drove into the rubble. There were 18 dead and 20 injured on the train. The three assassins were caught, sentenced to death and executed.

1921 to 1930

1921 to 1922

Railway assassination during the March fighting

Ammendorf (today Halle Süd ) ( German Empire ) 

March 16, 1921 - In the course of the March fighting in central Germany , left-wing radical workers loosened track fastenings on the double-track line. Two freight trains derailed, three railway workers died.

Friemersheim ( German Empire ) 

March 17, 1923 - During the railway accident in Friemersheim , a locomotive collided with a French military train due to sabotage on the Duisburg-Ruhrort-Mönchengladbach railway line. At least 40 people died and a large number were injured.

Between Leipzig and Halle ( German Empire ) 

May 16, 1921 - In the aftermath of the March fighting in Central Germany, there was an attack on an express train. 5 people died and many were injured.

Allied occupation of the Rhineland 1923 to 1924

During the Allied occupation of the Rhineland , there were numerous acts of sabotage by German railway personnel and third parties against the regional railway operated by the French and Belgian occupying powers in the occupied area . Detailed information on the individual incidents is often missing, as the crew basically prevented information from leaking out. It is often impossible to decide in individual cases whether an incident caused an attack, deficiencies in vehicles and infrastructure or the improper handling of vehicles and regulations by military personnel.

Mainz-Bischofsheim ( German Empire ) 

January 30, 1923 - Before the German railroad workers left, they damaged the turntable by derailing two locomotives in it.

Mainz-Mombach ( German Empire ) 

February 1923 - A class G 8 locomotive derailed as a result of sabotage .

Ingelheim ( German Empire ) 

February 1923 - By incorrectly setting the switches, the Mainz – Paris express train was directed to a stump track , but was able to brake in time before the end of the track.

Ingelheim ( German Empire ) 

February 1923 - A section of rail was removed from the left-hand Rhine route. The locomotive of a train from Cologne, a P 8 , derailed at low speed and overturned.

Werden / Heisingen ( German Empire ) 

March 13, 1923 - The tracks of the Ruhr Valley Railway between the two stations were blown up by Albert Leo Schlageter .

Plombières ( German Empire ) 

March 14, 1923 - One bomb exploded near the Göhl valley viaduct , a second did not detonate. A piece of iron attached to the rails was also found.

Kalkum ( German Empire ) 

March 15, 1923 - The bridge over the Schwarzbach is blown up. The Düsseldorf – Duisburg route was interrupted for a few days. The French occupation forces arrested Albert Leo Schlageter and sentenced him to death , which was carried out on May 26, 1923.

Friemersheim ( German Empire ) 

March 17, 1923 - During the railway accident in Friemersheim , a locomotive collided with a French military train due to sabotage on the Duisburg-Ruhrort-Mönchengladbach railway line. At least 40 people died and a large number were injured.

Wiesbaden Central Station ( German Empire ) 

March 20, 1923 - A train leaving the station was directed onto a stump track, ran over the buffer stop and fell from a height of five meters onto a shed. It is unclear whether it was a "normal" accident or whether it was caused by sabotage.

Bonn-Bad Godesberg ( German Empire ) 

March 29, 1923 - Explosives attack.

Essen ( German Empire ) 

March 30, 1923 - Attack on the Wuppertal-Vohwinkel-Essen-Überruhr railway line between Essen-Kupferdreh and Essen-Überruhr.

Ludwigshafen ( German Empire ) 

before the end of March 1923 - A locomotive was driven into the pit of a turntable.

Becoming ( German Empire ) 

April 5, 1923 - The track between Werden and Kettwig was blown up.

Essen-Frillendorf ( German Empire ) 

April 8, 1923 - Attack on a railway line.

Uerdingen ( German Empire ) 

April 8, 1923 - A time bomb exploded 800 m south of the station while an express train was passing through and destroyed the track.

Gelsenkirchen-Buer Nord train station ( German Empire ) 

April 10, 1923 - A railway underpass at Egerplatz was blown up.

Schmidtheim ( German Empire ) 

April 11, 1923 - The track of the Hürth-Kalscheuren-Ehrang railway was blown up.

Hagen vestibule ( German Empire ) 

April 12, 1923 - Attack on the route towards Volmarstein.

Gerolstein ( German Empire ) 

April 15, 1923 - A bomb exploded on train 7078 between Gerolstein and Oberbettingen. The engine driver was injured. The locomotive and the railway infrastructure were damaged.

Düren ( German Empire ) 

April 17, 1923 - A bridge was blown up just before the Brussels – Cologne express train was supposed to use it. The French Minister for Public Works, Yves Le Trocquer , and the Belgian Defense Minister, Albert Devèze , also traveled on the train . The train was able to stop in front of the bridge.

Aachen ( German Empire ) 

April 17, 1923 - In Aachen-Ronheide an explosives attack was carried out on the railway tracks, a passing passenger train was damaged.

Aachen ( German Empire ) 

April 18, 1923 - A bomb attack was attempted on the Aachen – Tongeren railway line . The bomb did not explode, however.

Aachen ( German Empire ) 

after April 18, 1923 - A bomb exploded in Aachen-Ronheide under the last carriage of the Antwerp – Berlin express train. However, this last car was a freight car, so only property damage occurred.

Recklinghausen ( German Empire ) 

April 24, 1923 - Attack near the Grullbad block post on the Wanne-Eickel-Hamburg railway line .

Viersen - Helenabrunn ( German Empire ) 

April 25, 1923 - A land mine exploded on the Duisburg-Ruhrort-Mönchengladbach railway line . The A 4 train derailed, the railway infrastructure and numerous wagons were damaged.

Bobenheim ( German Empire ) 

April 26, 1923 - A turnout was locked in the wrong position. A train derailed.

Welper  ? ( German Empire ) 

April 26, 1923 - A tunnel was blown up.

Blankenstein ( German Empire ) 

April 26, 1923 - Attack on railway facilities.

Vormholz ( German Empire ) 

April 26, 1923 - Attack on railway facilities.

Bonn ( German Empire ) 

April 30, 1923 - Explosives attack on a bridge

Brachelen ( German Empire ) 

May 1923 - Attempted bomb attack on the Rur bridge on the Aachen – Mönchengladbach railway line .

Kierberg / Liblar ( German Empire ) 

May 1, 1923 - A land mine exploded as train 503 passed by. Five cars derailed and the telegraph line was damaged.

Hattingen ( German Empire ) 

May 1, 1923 - Attack on the Ruhr Valley Railway .

Koblenz-Lützel train station ( German Empire ) 

May 2, 1923 - Arson destroys signal box No. 4, the offices of the freight depot, the freight hall and the freight stored there.

Wedau / Lintfort ( German Empire ) 

May 2, 1923 - A bomb explodes as a coal train passes by. Three loaded freight cars derail.

Essen ( German Empire ) 

May 3, 1923 - Attack on a bridge at Essen Süd train station.

Melhem ( German Empire ) 

May 5, 1923 - Explosives attack on the left Rhine route .

Düren ( German Empire ) 

May 6, 1923 - Explosives attack on a bridge in the direction of Langerwehe on the Cologne – Aachen railway line .

Düren ( German Empire ) 

May 7, 1923 - A bomb exploded as the D 414 passed by. The driver was injured because the locomotive derailed.

Bobenheim ( German Empire ) 

May 7, 1923 - A bomb exploded as the C 124 train passed by. The locomotive and 13 cars derailed.

Euskirchen ( German Empire ) 

May 8, 1923 - A bomb explosion destroyed the railway infrastructure in the direction of Jünkerath.

Euskirchen ( German Empire ) 

May 8, 1923 - A bomb explosion destroyed the railway infrastructure in the direction of Düren.

Waltrop ( German Empire ) 

May 10, 1923 - A bomb blew up a bridge in the direction of Lünen Süd and damaged the route over a length of 40 meters.

Oberhausen ( German Empire ) 

May 12, 1923 - Before train 284, a French military transport, the bridge over the Emscher was blown up. The train was able to stop in time.

Düren ( German Empire ) 

May 12, 1923 - A bomb exploded on the route in the direction of Elsdorf when the CE 51 train passed. The locomotive crew was injured.

Föhren ( German Empire ) 

May 13, 1923 - A bomb exploded on the Moselle route in the direction of Schweich . Train 412 derailed, the driver was injured.

Krefeld ( German Empire ) 

May 17, 1923 - A mine explosion caused the CH 21 train to derail on the Duisburg-Ruhrort-Mönchengladbach line , 1200 meters from Forsthaus station .

Essen-Horst ( German Empire ) 

May 18, 1923 - Attack on the Ruhr Valley Railway .

Krefeld ( German Empire ) 

May 22, 1923 - A track was blocked with iron bars, which was discovered in good time.

Angermund ( German Empire ) 

May 22, 1923 - A bomb explodes under train 136. The engine driver was injured.

Koblenz- Schützenhof ( German Empire ) 

May 23, 1923 - Accident classified as sabotage by the French occupation forces.

Boppard ( German Empire ) 

May 27, 1923 - Attack on the Left Rhine route.

Insheim ( German Empire ) 

May 29, 1923 - An explosive device exploded on the way to Landau . D 103 derailed.

Weidenthal ( German Empire ) 

May 29, 1923 - A bomb derails a locomotive.

Rheingönheim ( German Empire ) 

May 30, 1923 - Paul Görges tried to blow up the route towards Mutterstadt. The attempt fails, he was caught and sentenced to death , but the sentence was not carried out.

Wiesbaden ( German Empire ) 

May 30, 1923 - Two electricians from the Regiebahn were shot at between the Chausseehaus and Eiserne Hand stops on the Aartalbahn . One was injured.

Budenheim ( German Empire ) 

June 1923 - A bomb attack was carried out on the express train to Paris on the left Rhine route in the direction of Uhlerborn , injuring 10 people.

Rülzheim ( German Empire ) 

June 1923 - A level crossing barrier was damaged by sabotage.

Worms – Ludwigshafen line ( German Empire ) 

June 1923 - The telephones were stolen from unmanned marshals.

Ludwigshafen ( German Empire ) 

June 1923 - The apartment of the station master of Luitpoldshafen (Ludwigshafen port station) was looted. The German side denied this and considered the incident to be fake, as there was a French guard right next to the apartment.

Landstuhl ( German Empire ) 

June 1923 - Attack on a workers' train coming from Kaiserslautern. The locomotive and car were damaged.

Wörth am Rhein ( German Empire ) 

June 1923 - attack on a train. The German side denied the attack and considered the incident to be an ordinary derailment .

Langenlonsheim ( German Empire ) 

. June 1923 - In the direction of Bretzenheim, an attack was carried out on the Nahe Valley Railway.

Flörsheim am Main ( German Empire ) 

June 1, 1923 - 26 dynamite capsules were discovered at km 26 on the Taunus Railway before they could explode.

Ratingen ( German Empire ) 

June 2, 1923 - A bomb exploded while the GE 60 was passing through Ratingen-Lintorf. The locomotive and 13 wagons derailed, resulting in significant property damage.

Gelsenkirchen ( German Empire ) 

June 8, 1923 - Attack on the Essen – Gelsenkirchen railway line .

Recklinghausen ( German Empire ) 

June 11, 1923 - Death of a French post in the main train station. The French side assumed an attack, the German an accident.

Duisburg ( German Empire ) 

June 12, 1923 - Two bombs damaged the Duisburg – Dortmund railway line .

Erftstadt ( German Empire ) 

June 12, 1923 - An explosion occurs between Liblar and Euskirchen . A train derailed.

Bonn ( German Empire ) 

June 13, 1923 - A bomb exploded between Bad Godesberg and Mehlem. The locomotive and nine wagons of train 1329 derailed and the locomotive staff was injured.

Bonn ( German Empire ) 

June 13, 1923 - Between Mehlem and the “Bonn Neuer Weg” block, another bomb exploded under train 1232. The locomotive, tender and four freight cars derailed.

Namedy ( German Empire ) 

June 13, 1923 - Explosives attack on the left Rhine route .

Viersen ( German Empire ) 

June 14, 1923 - Attempted attack on railway facilities. Four men were arrested before they could carry out their plan.

Herdecke ( German Empire ) 

. June 1923 - Attack on the Düsseldorf-Derendorf-Dortmund Süd railway line .

Budenheim ( German Empire ) 

June 14, 1923 - Bomb attack on the D 141, injuring seven travelers and damaging the tracks.

Elsdorf ( German Empire ) 

June 18, 1923 - In the direction of Bedburg, a mine exploded when CE 59 drove past. The locomotive was damaged and one wagon derailed.

Wickrath ( German Empire ) 

June 18, 1923 - An explosion caused a train to derail between Wickrath and Rheydt .

Mainz ( German Empire ) 

June 20, 1923 - Eight packages of explosives were found in the Mainz south tunnel before they could explode.

Tub ( german empire ) 

June 20, 1923 - A French supply train was directed onto a track with some rails removed. Four cars derailed.

Rheingönheim ( German Empire ) 

June 22, 1923 - The barrier at a railroad crossing was destroyed.

Wörth am Rhein ( German Empire ) 

June 23, 1923 - An explosive device exploded on the Schifferstadt – Wörth railway line between Wörth and Jockgrim when the A 10 train passed. 24 wagons derailed and some of them fell down the embankment. A railroad worker was seriously injured and the tracks in both directions were damaged.

Landstuhl ( German Empire ) 

June 23, 1923 - A train derailed after the tracks were blown.

Wiesbaden ( German Empire ) 

June 26, 1923 - Bomb attack in the counter hall of Wiesbaden Central Station . Two travelers were injured.

Meckenheim ( German Empire ) 

June 26, 1923 - A bomb exploded in Meckenheim in the first car of train 626 from Bonn to Euskirchen. The first two cars on the train, which were unoccupied, were destroyed.

Duisburg ( German Empire ) 

June 30, 1923 - In a Belgian military train exploded a time fuse bomb as the train in Duisburg the Rhine crossing. At least 8 people died and 10 were also injured. As a result, the occupying power shut down the Wuppertal suspension railway [!] For two weeks.

Weißenburg / Landau in the Palatinate ( German Empire ) 

June 30, 1923 - As a result of a bomb attack, a train derailed on the Neustadt – Wissembourg railway line between Weißenburg and Landau. Two cars tumbled down the bank.

Mainz ( German Empire ) 

July 2, 1923 - An explosive device exploded on one of the portals of the Mainz tunnel .

Hedgehog ( german empire ) 

July 8, 1923 - Gun attack on French railway workers and military posts in the station.

Landstuhl ( German Empire ) 

July 9, 1923 - A group of French soldiers guarding a railway line was attacked with firearms by Germans. A German died, a French NCO was injured.

Recklinghausen ( German Empire ) 

July 11, 1923 - Level crossing accident between a wagon and a locomotive with French personnel. The locomotive had crossed the level crossing without a warning signal and without reducing its speed. The driver of the wagon was injured.

Oberbettingen ( German Empire ) 

July 21, 1923 - Pull wires and electrical lines from signal systems in the station were cut.

Essen ( German Empire ) 

July 30, 1923 - Cables used to set points were cut in the main train station.

Stromberg ( German Empire ) 

August 6, 1923 - A train was supposed to be derailed with wooden blanks that were wedged between the rail and guardrails.

Karthaus ( German Empire ) 

August 31, 1923 - A control box was set on fire.

Friedberg (Hessen) ( German Empire ) 

September 28, 1923 - The diverted P 1009 derailed due to a switch that had been changed prematurely, “because of intervention by the director”. Two people died and 16 were injured.

Darmstadt ( German Empire ) 

5th / 6th October 1923 - The telegraph lines of the repair shop were damaged.

Düsseldorf ( German Empire ) 

October 23, 1923 - Railway systems were damaged.

Mainz-Kastel ( German Empire ) 

October 23, 1923 - In the repair shop, equipment was damaged in the electrical workshop.

Essen ( German Empire ) 

September 22, 1924 - Acts of sabotage on railway systems.

1925 to 1930

Starogard Gdański ( Poland ) 

May 1, 1925 - The express train D 4 from Eydtkuhnen to Berlin-Charlottenburg derailed. 29 dead, 10 seriously and 23 slightly injured were the result. The Polish side claimed that the derailment was the result of an attack, the German that the train had derailed due to defects in the superstructure . The cause of the accident was never clearly clarified.

→ Main article : Starogard Gdański railway accident

The derailed locomotive of the D 8 after the attack at Leiferde

Leiferde ( German Empire ) 

August 19, 1926 - In order to rob a rail mail car , the two perpetrators damaged the track of the railway line between the Leiferde and Meinersen stations . The D 8 Berlin – Cologne derailed. 24 people died and many more were injured. The perpetrators were caught and sentenced to death, but were pardoned to life imprisonment in 1927 due to a petition for clemency.

→ Main article : Railway attack near Leiferde

Anting ( Republic of China ) 

August 26, 1926 - One of the civil war parties removed a section of track from the Shanghai – Nanjing railway line . Presumably the special train of a general on the other side was supposed to be derailed. However, the damaged area was first driven by a civilian train. 20 people died.

British India ( British India ) 

October 1927 / late 1928 - At least 13 attacks took place during this period, some of them politically motivated, some of them robbery. Including:

• January 28, 1928 - Robbers removed four tabs from the track connections on a bridge near Kyauktaga to derail a freight train and then rob it. But the speed was so slow that the track held. The next express train, the “Mail”, from Mandalay to Rangoon (today: Myanmar , then: Burma), derailed and four of its wagons fell 50 meters into a river. 54 people died and more than 30 were injured.
  → Main article : Kyauktaga railway accident
• July 8, 1928. After removing tabs on the track, a train derailed at Belur . 25 people died and 60 were seriously injured.
• July 12, 1928. After removing a section of rail, the Calcutta-Gaya Mail derailed .
• October 4, 1928 and
• October 5, 1928: Two more attacks, one of which was discovered in time.
• October 25, 1928: Attempted attack on the special train of the Governor of Bombay , Frederick Sykes .
• December 13, 1928. Another attack causes a train to derail.
• "Somewhat later". Robbery of a train at Hindubagh that was used to transport wages for the railway.

Shenyang (Mukden) ( China ) 

June 4, 1928 - Japanese officers who wanted to promote the expansion of Japan in Manchuria carried out an explosive attack on the Chinese ruler, Marshal Zhang Zuolin , who was retreating from Beijing to Shenyang (then: Mukden). His special train had to pass under the South Manchurian Railway , which was operated by Japan , in the suburbs of Shenyang . An officer of the Japanese Kwantung Army detonated a bomb here when the special train passed under the viaduct, killing Zhang Zuolin.

Braunschweig ( German Empire ) 

1928–1931 Insurance employee Friedrich Opitz carried out a total of 64 attacks after work, in which three railway workers were injured. After three robberies and dozens of robberies, he was guilted to death in 1936 .

Jinzhou ( China ) 

December 29, 1930 - Robbers damaged the superstructure of the railway line from Shenyang (then: Mukden) to Beijing . An express train derailed. At least 80 people died and another 20 were abducted as hostages .

→ Main article : Jinzhou railway accident

Anzbach ( Austria ) 

December 31, 1930 - The presumably deranged teacher Sylvester Matuska carried out a railway attack near Anzbach - west of Vienna - without consequences.

1931 to 1940

Anzbach ( Austria ) 

January 30, 1931 - Sylvester Matuska carried out a second attack on the same spot. The locomotive of a night express train derailed. But there was only little damage.

Jüterbog ( German Empire ) 

August 8, 1931 - Sylvester Matuska blew up a piece of rail under the locomotive of the express train D 43 from Basel to Berlin at Jüterbog at around 10:00 p.m. , which derailed the train. 82 injuries were the result.

Biatorbágy ( Hungary ) 

September 13, 1931 - Sylvester Matuska blew up the track on the 25 m high multi-arched railway bridge near the town of Biatorbágy, west of Budapest . The locomotive, baggage car, sleeping car and three passenger cars on the Budapest – Vienna night express train crashed. 24 dead, 14 seriously and numerous slightly injured were the result. In Vienna, Matuska was questioned on October 1, 1931 at the request of the Hungarian police because he was claiming damages as an alleged passenger on the train that had crashed. During a second interrogation on October 7, 1931, he was arrested and admitted to the crime. In criminal his motives were not entirely clear. Matuska made a confused impression at times and expressed religious delusions. The jury sentenced him to six years in prison for two attacks near Anzbach. After four years of serving his sentence, he was extradited to Hungary for the attack in Biatorbágy. There he was sentenced to death for murder . However, Austria had made a pardon and life imprisonment a condition for extradition .

Japanese experts inspect the site of the bomb attack on the South Manchurian Railway

Shenyang (Mukden) ( China ) 

September 18, 1931 - Two officers of the Kwantung Army , one of whom was believed to be the spy and later commander of the 14th Division, Doihara Kenji , carried out an explosives attack on the South Manchurian Railway operated by Japan . As a result of what was known as the " Mukden Incident ", Manchuria was occupied by Japanese troops and in March 1932 the Japanese satellite state of Manchukuo was founded.

→ Main article : Mukden incident

Liaoning ( China ) 

September 27, 1931 - Robbers removed rails about 90 km west of Shenyang (then: Mukden), so that the train from Mukden to Beijing derailed. They robbed the train, killing travelers and train staff in the process. 30 people died and many more were injured.

Puçol ( Spain ) 

December 9, 1933 - The Barcelona – Seville express train derailed after anarchists bombed a railway bridge . The result was 13 deaths.

→ Main article : Puçol railway accident

Mitterbachham near Oftering ( Austria ) 

April 10, 1934 - When the Ostend-Wien-Express ( D-Zug 117 ) was attacked, the train derailed after strangers had removed a section of track. One person was killed and 16 injured. Two years later, two members of the National Socialist party were investigated as the perpetrators of the attack, eventually sentenced to death and executed .

Bad Abbach ( German Empire ) 

July 24, 1938 - At Bad Abbach on the Danube Valley Railway , stones were placed on the track and a freight train derailed.

Canton ( China ) 

January 3, 1938 - A Japanese bombing raid damaged a tunnel in which a train derailed. 42 people died.

→ Main article : Railway accident from Canton

Kowloon-Canton Railway ( China ) 

January 16, 1938 - Three cars on an express train burned out. Arson was suspected. 87 people died and 30 were also injured. (See: here )

Songjiang ( China ) 

September 8, 1938 - During a Japanese air raid on Songjiang Railway Station, a train overflowing with refugees that had stopped there was also hit. At least 300 people died and 400 others were also injured.

→ Main article : Songjiang air strike

Sant Vicenç de Calders ( Spain ) 

October 9, 1938 - 60 people died and 100 were injured in an air raid on a train during the Spanish Civil War .

→ Main article : Air raid on Sant Vicenç de Calders

Hazaribagh ( British India ) 

January 12, 1939 and 1929–1939 - A train derailed near Hazaribagh, Bihar, after the track was deliberately damaged. 21 people died, 71 were also injured. More such attacks occurred in the following months. An investigation found that there had been 131 attempted or complete acts of sabotage against the railways in India over the past ten years.

Xàtiva ( Spain ) 

February 12, 1939 - An air raid on Xàtiva train station in the last days of the Spanish Civil War killed 129 people and injured 200.

→ Main article : Bombardment of Xàtiva

Carlin ( United States ) 

Aug 12, 1939 - The City of San Francisco long distance train , which ran between Chicago and Oakland via Illinois , derailed at Carlin, Nevada , in the Nevada desert . This section of his route was part of the network of the Southern Pacific Railroad . The train was delayed and was traveling at the highest possible speed. The accident occurred at 9:33 p.m. when the train drove over a bridge that spanned the Humboldt River . Five wagons fell into the river and three more slid down the bank. 24 dead and 121 injured were the result of the accident. Both the coroner and a panel of experts from the railroad came to the conclusion that a railroad track had been removed, which caused the derailment. Due to the non-transparent attitude of the railway company in the investigation of the accident, the rumor persists to this day that the cause of the accident could also have been a mistake on this side - e.g. B. too high speed.

Between Shanghai and Nanjing ( China ) 

October 1, 1939 - A military train of the Japanese occupying forces derailed in an attack by Chinese guerrillas. 30 Japanese were killed and more were injured.

Yunnan ( China ) 

February 1, 1940 - A train was hit during a Japanese air raid on a bridge on the Yunnan Railway at km 235 (the Chinese kilometers). 85 people died and another 120 were injured.

→ Main article : Yunnan railway accident

British India ( British India ) 

August 5, 1940 - After a rail was intentionally removed, the Dacca Mail derailed 128 km from Calcutta (today: Kolkatta). 34 people died and 90 were also injured.

Suzhou ( China ) 

Nov. 29, 1940 - Kuomintang guerrillas blew up the superstructure under a train traveling from Shanghai to Nanking . Around 100 people died and another 300 are said to have been injured.

→ Main article : Suzhou Railway Accident

1941 to 1950

Krylbo ( Sweden ) 

July 19, 1941 - near the railway station of the small Swedish town Krylbo, the part of the city today Avesta is exploded a German freight train , equipped with ammunition for Finnish Tornio was traveling. It is still not clear whether it was an accident or an attack by the British secret service Special Operations Executive . The latter is supported by the fact that the military attaché of the British diplomatic mission in Sweden, Malcolm Munthe, was expelled from Sweden the following day . Officially, the incident was portrayed as a railway accident.

→ Main article : Krylbo explosion

British India ( British India ) 

May 16, 1942 - Robbers derailed a train traveling from Karachi to Lahore . The locomotive and six cars overturned. The passengers were attacked with axes and firearms and robbed. 22 people died and 26 were also injured.

Białystok ( Poland ) 

September 19, 1943 - After an attack on the express train with Wehrmacht part DmW 31, the train derailed. 23 people died and 33 others were injured.

Various locations ( Soviet Union ) 

March to June 1944 - The German Air Force flew 350 bombers in large-scale attacks on railway centers in the Soviet Union in order to disrupt the Soviet summer offensive. Despite considerable destruction, this could not prevent the subsequent military success of the Soviet Union and the collapse of Army Group Center .

Köppern ( German Empire ) 

October 4, 1944 - Train No. 2021 from Frankfurt to Usingen was attacked by low-flying aircraft shortly before it entered the Köppern station. 31 people died. See: here .

Elm railway station ( German Empire ) 

November 25, 1944 - The station building was completely destroyed in an air raid on the station.

Fulda Central Station ( German Empire ) 

December 27, 1944 - During an air raid on the train station, an underpass was buried under the tracks and had been used by large numbers of people as a makeshift air raid shelter . More than 700 people, including numerous slave laborers , died.

Snåsa ( Norway ) 

January 13, 1945 - The company Linge , a British - Norwegian intelligence unit , which in Norway sabotage behind the lines of the German Wehrmacht conducted, blew up the bridge of Nordlandsbanen over the Jørstadelva , a river in Snåsa. The operation was code-named "Woodlark". Six hours after the bridge was blown up , a troop transport train of the Wehrmacht crossed the spot and fell into the river. 70–80 people died and around 100 were injured. In 1995 a memorial was erected on the bridge for this purpose. This is the most loss-making railway accident in Norway to date.

Treuchtlingen ( German Empire ) 

February 23, 1945 - During an air raid on Treuchtlingen train station , around 300 people died in a bombed underpass that was used by numerous people as a makeshift air raid shelter .

Waldkappel ( German Empire ) 

March 31, 1945 - During an air raid, an ammunition train exploded in Waldkappel station. 17 people died.

→ Main article : Air raid on Waldkappel

Zapfendorf ( German Empire ) 

April 1, 1945 - An ammunition train exploded during an air raid on Zapfendorf station . 23 people died and the village was almost completely destroyed.

Konkoita ( Thailand ) 

February 1, 1947 - A wooden railway bridge on the Thailand-Burma Railway burned down and collapsed. One of Thailand's Transport Minister Momluang Kri Detchatiwong used motor trolley crashed into the resulting gap. The minister and one of his company were killed.

→ Main article : Konkoita railway accident

Tientsin ( China ) 

May 1947 - 100 people died when a train consisting of a locomotive and 13 cars ran into an ambush on a land mine laid by communist guerrillas . The train was on its way from Tientsin to Shenyang (Mukden). The attack occurred about 55 km from Tientsin. The locomotive and the three following cars derailed and were damaged. The guerrillas then looted the train.

Tientsin ( China ) 

July 23, 1947 - A passenger train from Shanghai to Tientsin hit a land mine 107 km from its destination and it exploded. The train derailed. 27 people died and 12 were seriously injured

Amritsar ( India ) 

September 22, 1947 - A train carrying more than 4,500 Muslim refugees was ambushed by armed Sikhs near Amritsar and shot at for three hours. 3418 people died or were subsequently missing, 1328 others were injured.

Kamoke ( India ) 

September 25, 1947 - A train carrying Hindu and Sikh refugees was ambushed by armed Muslims in Kamoke. 340 refugees died and another 250 were injured.

Arras ( France ) 

December 3, 1947 - During a general strike by the railroad workers, over 30 m of track on the Paris – Lille line was loosened so expertly that the signaling systems remained unaffected. The night mail train from Paris to Tourcoing derailed. 21 people died.

Rechovot ( League of Nations Mandate for Palestine ) 

February 29, 1948 - The underground paramilitary organization Lechi detonates a bomb under the Cairo – Haifa train. 28 British soldiers were killed.

→ Main article : Rechovot railway assassination

Dhanbad ( India ) 

May 15, 1948 - After a (suspected) act of sabotage, the Dhera Dun Express from Howrah derailed on a 12 meter high dam. 31 people died, 101 were also injured, 19 of them seriously.

Lilong ( China ) 

September 3, 1948 - At least 25 people died and 98 more were injured when a train derailed near Lilong, Guangdong , on its way from Hankow to Canton . The cause is said to have been a manipulation of the superstructure .

Pengpu ( China ) 

September 1948 - Communist guerrillas laid a land mine on a railway line about 140 km northwest of Nanking . It exploded under a train going to Pukow . The locomotive and the following wagon were completely destroyed, 100 people died.

Móra la Nova ( Spain ) 

February 12, 1949 - The Barcelona – Madrid express train derailed in a curve in front of Móra la Nova station ( route km 536.6), which was on a slope. The locomotive was carried out of the curve into a ravine below, and several wagons fell on it. 40 people died and about 100 were also injured. The Franco dictatorship claimed that the cause was a communist attack. The rail fastenings have been removed.

Matsukawa incident

Fukushima ( Japan ) 

August 17, 1949 - After the bolts and nuts of the track connections were loosened and numerous nails that had fixed the rails on the sleepers were pulled out, a train derailed that was traveling from Aomori to Ueno and had just crossed Matsukawa, today's Fukushima . The three men on the locomotive died. In the hysteria of the Communist persecution at the time, 20 members of the Tōshiba -Matsukawa Factory Union, the Kokurō (Railway Workers Union ) and the Communist Party of Japan were arrested. The trials dragged on for 14 years and ended in acquittals.

→ Main article : Matsukawa incident

Bitroi ( India ) 

April 12, 1950 - After a manipulation on the track shortly before the Tarara Bridge, the “Kumaon Express” of the Oudh and Tirhut Railway derailed . While the locomotive and the first car were still reaching the other bank, the remaining vehicles fell into the river. 36 people died, 101 were also injured.

Jasidih ( India ) 

May 7, 1950 - After removing a section of rail, part of the Punjab Mail from Calcutta (today: Kolkata) to New Delhi fell from a railway embankment. 92 people died, 67 were seriously injured.

→ Main article : Jasidih railway accident

Benares ( India ) 

August 13, 1950 - On a bridge near Benares (today: Varanasi ) the track was deliberately damaged by removing a strap. A freight train derailed. The Toofan Express drove into the scene of the accident from New Delhi to Calcutta. Its locomotive and three wagons fell into the river. 29 people died, 113 were also injured.

Bhairabazar ( Pakistan ) 

September 9, 1950 - Saboteurs removed rail connections in front of a bridge, so that the express train from Dhaka to Chittagong near Bhairabazar (then: East Pakistan , now: Bangladesh ) derailed, the locomotive and three wagons fell into a river. About 50 people died.

1951 to 1960

Hai Van Pass ( Vietnam ) 

June 24, 1953 - During the Indochina War , the Hai Van Pass (also: Cloud Pass / Col des Nuages), over which the main railway line between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) runs, was difficult as a strategically important mountain pass fought over. When a train hauled by two locomotives drove onto an arched bridge there, the Việt Minh blew up a bridge segment. Both locomotives and 18 wagons fell almost 20 meters. More than 100 people died.

Burma ( Burma ) 

March 4, 1957 - Insurgents derailed the express train from Mandalay to Rangoon (today: Myanmar , then: Burma). More than 30 people died.

Tasikmalaja ( Indonesia ) 

May 8, 1959 - An express train from Banjar to Bandung derailed near Tasikmalaja and crashed into a ravine. Officials stated that the cause was interference by outsiders in rail operations. 92 people died and 14 were also injured.

San Sebastian ( Spain ) 

1960 - The Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) started their "fight". The first known action was a train derailed. On June 28, 1960, several people were injured and a child was killed in a bomb attack in the Amara train station in San Sebastián.

1961 to 1970

Burma ( Burma ) 

March 26, 1961 - Insurgents blew up part of the Mandalay – Rangoon express train and attacked the surviving travelers with automatic weapons. 23 people died, 100 were also injured. 60 people were taken hostage.

Siliguri ( India ) 

Apr. 19, 1961 - Due to sabotage, a passenger train derailed near Siliguri , West Bengal . 23 people died, 77 were also injured.

Vitry-le-François ( France ) 

June 18, 1961 - The explosion of a bomb believed to have been laid by the Organization de l'armée secrète (OAS) derailed the Strasbourg – Paris express train. 28 people died and 170 were injured.

→ Main article : Attack on the Strasbourg – Paris express train

Ghatshila ( India ) 

October 20, 1961 - After the track was damaged by sabotage, the locomotive and seven wagons of an express train from Howrah to Ranchi derailed. 27 people died, 105 were also injured.

Isenbüttel ( Federal Republic of Germany ) 

February 17, 1962 - The Pto 3131 train derailed due to stones that had been laid on the Braunschweig – Wieren railway line . 3 people died and 25 were injured.

Montevideo ( Uruguay ) 

August 4, 1963 - A passenger train was derailed by sabotage. Two cars were destroyed. 40 people died.

Northern Germany ( FR Germany ) 

1966 - A blackmailer who called himself "Roy Clark" asked for money from the Deutsche Bundesbahn . After there was no reaction, there were several attacks. In one case it was lucky that the stranger had made a mistake in the timetable and instead of the light railcar, a heavy freight train ran the route. On December 21, 1967, the stateless former Foreign Legionnaire Alexander Bordan Hembluck was convicted as a bomber and threatening letter writer.

Assam ( India ) 

February 1966 - A bomb exploded in the "Assam Mail". It was the first of three attacks in a series. He was assigned to the Naga freedom movement . 37 people died.

Lumding ( India ) 

April 20, 1966 - In the second bomb attack, this time on a train in Lumding station , 55 people died and 127 others were injured.

Diphu ( India ) 

April 23, 1966 - The third bomb attack in this series killed 40 people and injured 60 more.

Belgaum ( India ) 

May 26, 1966 - After a strap connecting two pieces of track was deliberately removed, a train derailed from “Banglapore” to Pune (Poona). 22 people died and 21 were also injured.

Bensheim ( Federal Republic of Germany ) 

September 17, 1966 - A passenger train derailed due to stones that children had laid on the Bensheim – Worms railway line . One person died and 15 were also injured.

Brennerbahn ( Italy ) 

September 30, 1967 - Two police officers died in an attack by the South Tyrol Liberation Committee on the Innsbruck – Trento train.

Main chair ( BR Germany ) 

October 16, 1968 - On the Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway line , the retaining and safety bolts of a railway switch were removed and the switch set to deflect. The locomotive and 7 wagons of the D 216 derailed at 120 km / h. 1 person died, 14 were also injured.

Baden-Württemberg ( Federal Republic of Germany ) 

February 24, 1969 - Due to stones laid on the rails, a railcar derailed on the Höllentalbahn in the Black Forest and crashed. 4 injured were the result.

Dortmund ( Federal Republic of Germany ) 

Mar. 05, 1969 - The driver of a freight train was hit by a stone thrown by a youth. The engine driver was passed out for three minutes.

Jajpur Road ( India ) 

July 14, 1969 - The rear-end collision of a freight train with a passenger train standing in the Jajpur Keonjhar Road station is attributed to the interference of outside parties in the signaling systems. 85 people died.

→ Main article : Jajpur Road railway accident

Gioia Tauro ( Italy ) 

July 22, 1970 - Six people lost their lives in an explosion and the subsequent derailment of the train. 66 people were injured.

→ Main article : Assassination attempt by Gioia Tauro

1971 to 1980

Thalfingen ( Federal Republic of Germany ) 

January 24, 1971 - A stumbling block was placed on the Aalen – Ulm railway line . However, the express train that was due in 1921 had to be stopped because of a gearbox damage, so that there was no accident.

Adelsdorf ( Federal Republic of Germany ) 

May 10, 1971 - Children laid stones on the track of the Forchheim – Höchstadt railway line , as a result of which a local railcar derailed. 2 injured were the result.

Solingen ( Federal Republic of Germany ) 

May 10, 1971 - Local train 2594 to Wuppertal-Oberbarmen hit a drag shoe that had been placed on the track, dragging it along until it got stuck in a switch. The locomotive and two cars derailed.

Potgietersrus ( Mokopane ), Transvaal ( South Africa ) 

Mar. 31, 1972 - Due to sabotage, a train's locomotive derailed just before it crossed a river bridge. The locomotive crashed into the almost dry river bed and tore some passenger cars with it. 38 people died, 174 were also injured.

Darmstadt ( Federal Republic of Germany ) 

May 24, 1972 - Children playing put a bulldozer into operation, which comes to a stop on the Odenwaldbahn between the Darmstadt Ost and Darmstadt Nord stations . A local railcar drives into it at 50 km / h. 9 people are injured.

Erdbach ( Federal Republic of Germany ) 

August 13, 1973 - As a result of external intervention in Mademühlen station on the Westerwaldquerbahn , 16 freight wagons were uncoupled from a train and began to roll downhill on a downward gradient. After 15 km and crossing 20 level crossings, they met the buffer stop at Erdbach train station, ran over it and hit a residential building 50 meters further, where a woman was killed.

Dußlingen ( Federal Republic of Germany ) 

May 21, 1974 - A locomotive derailed due to stones laid on the track of the Tübingen – Sigmaringen railway line .

Memorial to the victims of the bombing in the train station of San Benedetto Val di Sambro on August 4th 1974

San Benedetto Val di Sambro ( Italy ) 

August 4, 1974 - In a bomb attack on the Italicus Express  - the night express train Rome - Munich  - by the right-wing extremist terrorist organization Ordine Nuovo , 12 people died and 48 were injured.

→ Main article : Assassination attempt on the Italicus Express

Space Stuttgart ( West Germany ) 

September 2, 1974 - In an attempt at blackmail , underpinned by the threat of an attack on rail traffic, 3.8 million DM were demanded.

Baden-Württemberg ( Federal Republic of Germany ) 

October 6, 1975–1978 - The extortionist Monsieur X carried out a whole series of attacks on trains of the Deutsche Bundesbahn with extortionate intent.

→ Main article : Monsieur X

Wijster ( Netherlands ) 

On December 2, 1975 , the train hijacking began in Wijster and lasted until December 14, 1975 , when the hostage-takers gave up. Moluccan assassins took the travelers hostage in a railcar, demanded the release of all Moluccas imprisoned in the Netherlands and made political demands with the aim of a state independent of Indonesia. The engine driver and two passengers were murdered.

Alexandria ( Egypt ) 

Aug. 14, 1976 - A bomb hidden in an overhead locker exploded in Alexandria, Egypt. Eight people died and 51 were injured.

Moscow ( Soviet Union ) 

Jan. 08 , 1977 - Series of bombs on the Moscow Metro. Seven people died and 37 were injured.

De Punt ( Netherlands ) 

The train hijacking of De Punt began on May 23, 1977 and continued until June 11, 1977 : Moluccan assassins took travelers hostage in a railcar and demanded the release of imprisoned like-minded people and support for their struggle for a state independent of Indonesia. Two hostages and six hostage-takers died, and six other people were injured.

Riegel am Kaiserstuhl ( Federal Republic of Germany ) 

October 17, 1977 - The blackmailer Monsieur X manipulated the track and the Italia-Express Copenhagen-Rome derailed at a speed of 140 km / h. 19 people were injured, some seriously.

Ajaraka ( India ) 

November 23, 1977 - After a rail was removed from the track, the night train from Ahmedabad to New Delhi derailed near Ajaraka. 20 people died and another 21 were injured. The perpetrator or perpetrators could never be identified.

→ Main article : Ajaraka railway accident

Dunmurry ( United Kingdom ) 

Jan 17, 1980 - An IRA bomb exploded prematurely on a passenger train near Dunmurry in Northern Ireland during a transport . Three people were killed, including one of the bombers, five others were injured, including the second bomber.

→ Main article : Dunmurry bomb explosion

Romeas ( Kampuchea ) 

June 10, 1980 - Guerrillas stopped a passenger train 70 km northwest of Phnom Penh with a mine or missile attack and then shot at it. More than 150 people died and about 250 were injured.

Bologna ( Italy ) 

August 2, 1980 - The bomb attack on Bologna Central Station left 85 people dead and 200 injured. A right-wing extremist terrorist organization called Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari is responsible for the crime .

→ Main article : Bologna attack in 1980

Iserlohn ( Federal Republic of Germany ) 

September 25, 1980 - Children put stones in the ruts of a level crossing at the Iserlohn-Ost train station. The Nto 6127 local railcar derailed and hit a house. 13 people were injured.

Belfast ( United Kingdom ) 

October 12, 1980 - An IRA bomb exploded on an Intercity train between Dublin and Belfast near Belfast Central Station. A traveler was killed.

Parsberg ( FR Germany ) 

November 5, 1980 - While loading tanks of the US armed forces on a freight train, a soldier shot a grenade at another tank. The motive was jealousy. 2 dead and two injured were the result, the railway line Nuremberg – Regensburg had to be closed for a long time.

1981 to 1990

Munich ( FR Germany ) 

April 14, 1981 - The “ Akropolis ” train ran into a tree lock. Damage.

Dangarva ( India ) 

July 18, 1981 - Presumably by sabotage - straps connecting pieces of track had been removed - a train traveling from New Delhi to Ahmedabad derailed 800 meters from Dangarva railway station in Gujarat state . 35 people died and 70 were also injured.

Bahawalpur ( Pakistan ) 

July 31, 1981 - A train that was traveling from Karachi to Lahore and was very busy due to the upcoming Id Al-Fitr derailed because some rail brackets had been removed. More than 30 people died.

Ambazac ( France ) 

March 29, 1982 - In the Capitole from Paris to Toulouse, the far-left terrorist Carlos carried out an attack that killed five people and injured 29. The bomb deposited in the second of the ten cars exploded twenty kilometers before Limoges. The train didn't stop until two kilometers after the attack.

Ostercappeln ( Federal Republic of Germany ) 

August 2, 1982 - Two soldiers of the British armed forces stopped their tank on the tracks of the Wanne-Eickel-Hamburg railway line after a rampage . The D 15233 drove into the tank and smashed it. The two soldiers were killed, the engine driver and 20 passengers were injured.

Lyon ( France ) 

December 31, 1983 - On New Year's Eve 1983, an explosive device exploded in a TGV south of Lyon, also in the Marseille- St-Charles train station . Again, the terrorist Carlos was responsible for the two attacks with four dead.

Apennine Base Tunnel ( Italy ) 

December 23, 1984 - In a bomb attack by the Mafia in the Apennine base tunnel on the Rapido 904, 17 people died and 267 were injured.

→ Main article : Bomb attack in the Apennine Base Tunnel

Mankulam ( Sri Lanka ) 

Jan 20, 1985 - Separatist Tamils stopped a passenger train through mines between Mankulam and Murukandy stations and then attacked it with firearms. At least 36 people died.

Bunowo ( Bulgaria ) 

March 9, 1985 - Seven people, including two children, died when a car on the Sofia – Burgas express train exploded. The explosive device was supposed to explode using a time fuse in the nearby tunnel, claiming more victims. Due to a train delay, the bomb exploded in the station. The Turkish liberation movement in Bulgaria was responsible for the bloody act, which carried out four more attacks by 1989.

Mozambique ( Mozambique ) 

August 2, 1985 - 58 people died in a railway accident and 160 were injured. According to the government, it was an operational accident. The guerrillas alleged an act of sabotage they carried out as the cause.

Bheramara ( Bangladesh ) 

May 15, 1986 - On a railway line near Bheramara, tabs that connected pieces of rail were removed. As a result, an express train derailed and several passenger cars overturned into a canal along which the route ran. At least 25 people died and 45 were injured.

Cuzco ( Peru ) 

June 25, 1986 - Seven people, including three Germans, died in an attack on a tourist train in Cuzco , Peru . The terrorist group " Shining Path " was accused .

Pesse ( Mozambique ) 

December 31, 1987 - Guerrillas derailed a train carrying 1,500 migrant workers returning from South Africa when a land mine exploded and then shot at the train. Some passengers were kidnapped. 22 people died, 77 were also injured.

Hangzhou - Shanghai ( People's Republic of China ) 

June 26, 1989 - On a train from Hangzhou to Shanghai, dynamite exploded in a toilet and tore part of a car. It remained unclear whether this was an attack or an accident. 20 people died and 11 were seriously injured.

Cherlapally ( India ) 

October 10, 1990 - A train caught fire in an attack by Naxalites on a passenger train in Cherlapally near Hyderabad in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh . 40 people died.

Kompongi ( Cambodia ) 

October 17, 1990 - Guerrillas derailed a train and shot at it. 50 people died.

1991 to 2000

Mumbai ( India ) 

November 9, 1991 - Ten passengers were killed in an attack on a suburban train in Mumbai (Bombay).

London ( United Kingdom ) 

Oct. 22, 1992 - IRA bombing of a Hampstead underground station .

Baku ( Azerbaijan ) 

March 19, 1994 - 14 people were killed and 49 injured in the bomb attack on the Baku subway , allegedly behind which members of the separatist Lesgian national movement "Sadwal" stood.

Quipungo ( Angola ) 

May 31, 1993 - A train derailed due to an attack by Unita rebels. 355 people died.

Baku ( Azerbaijan ) 

July 3, 1994 - Another bomb attack on the Baku metro killed 13 people and injured 58. Armenian-Azerbaijani rivalries are said to have been the background again.

Diphu ( India ) 

February 25, 1995 - Bombs exploded in a military train. 25 people died.

Tokyo ( Japan ) 

March 20, 1995 - In the Tokyo subway , an attack involving the highly toxic nerve gas sarin cost 13 lives and injured 6,252. Responsible for the act was Ōmu Shinrikyō , whose leader Shōkō Asahara arrested on May 16, 1995, sentenced to death in 2004 and executed in 2018.

Yokohama ( Japan ) 

April 19, 1995 - 671 people were injured in a poison gas attack on Yokohama Railway Station .

Tokyo ( Japan ) 

May 5, 1995 - Poison gas attack on the subway, nobody was injured.

Yokohama ( Japan ) 

May 15, 1995 - Three people were injured in another poison gas attack by the Ōmu Shinrikyō on the subway.

Yokohama ( Japan ) 

July 2, 1995 - 36 people were injured in a poison gas attack on a subway station.

Tokyo ( Japan ) 

July 4, 1995 - Toxic gas attack on a subway train, no injuries.

Tokyo ( Japan ) 

July 5, 1995 - Poison gas attack on a train station, three injured.

Paris ( France ) 

July 25, 1995 - Eight people were killed and 119 injured in a bomb explosion at the Saint-Michel RER station in Paris. The Algerian Armed Islamic Group (GIA) claimed responsibility for the attacks .

Paris ( France ) 

October 6, 1995 - 16 people were injured in a bomb explosion in the Paris metro.

Hyder ( United States ) 

October 9, 1995 - An attack on the Amtrak railroad company's Sunset Limited long-distance train near Hyder, Arizona , left one dead and 78 injured. The FBI opened a major manhunt, but the perpetrator or perpetrators were never caught.

→ Main article : Arizona Cable Stop

Paris ( France ) 

October 17, 1995 - An explosive device exploded in an RER metro train between the Parisian metro stations Musée d'Orsay and Saint-Michel , injuring 30 people.

Moscow ( Russia ) 

June 11, 1996 - In the middle of the morning rush hour, four people were killed and twelve injured in a bomb explosion in the Moscow Metro .

Paris ( France ) 

December 3, 1996 - Four people were killed and 91 injured in a bomb attack on the Paris RER metro . Because of the series of attacks in the French capital, two Algerians were sentenced to life imprisonment as accomplices in October 2002.

→ Main article : Attack at Port-Royal train station in Paris

Assam ( India ) 

December 30, 1996 - An attack is carried out on the Brahmaputra Mail , which was en route to Delhi . A bomb had been placed in the track at a point on the route the train was traveling at high speed. The bomb was probably triggered remotely. Three wagons of the train were destroyed, six more derailed and 33 people died. The Indian government suspected Assamese separatists behind the attack.

Lehra Khanna ( India ) 

July 8, 1997 - 33 people died in a train bombing at Lehra Khanna station, Punjab .

Khaipur ( Pakistan ) 

Jun 17, 1998 - 23 people were killed in a bomb attack on two trains in Khairpur, Pakistan .

High-speed line from Hanover to Berlin ( Germany ) 

December 8, 1998 - A blackmailer loosened screws near Uchtspringe (Altmark) and raised the track approx. 3 cm. Nevertheless, the ICE, which was traveling at 250 km / h, did not derail.

Wilmersdorf near Angermünde ( Germany ) 

December 16, 1998 - The same blackmailer again loosened screws on rails, this time on the track of the Angermünde-Stralsund Railway .

Klein Bünzow ( Germany ) 

December 18, 1998 - The same blackmailer manipulated the track of the Angermünde-Stralsund Railway again , this time between Anklam and Greifswald. A freight train derailed. There was property damage in the millions. The blackmailer and his accomplice were arrested on December 23, 1998.

Grdelica ( Yugoslavia ) 

April 12, 1999 - During the Kosovo war intervened F-15E Strike Eagle fighter aircraft of NATO in quick succession twice the Morava bridge at Grdelica with air-to-surface missile of the type AGM-130 on. Both times the express train D 393 Niš - Ristovac was hit, which was crossing the bridge. 14 dead and 16 injured were the result.

→ Main article : Bombardment of the D 393 near Grdelica

21st century

2001 to 2010

Zenza do Itombe ( Angola ) 

10 August 2001 - 252 dead and 165 injured by the attack on a passenger train in the Angolan civil war on the railway line Zenza do Itombe- Dondo , a branch line of the Luanda Railway .

→ Main article : Zenza railway accident

Godhra ( India ) - Arson attack 

February 27, 2002 - A crowd of Hindu pilgrims attacked a train at Goghra Junction station out of a crowd composed mainly of Muslims . The pilgrims came from Ayodhya and mostly belonged to the Vishva Hindu Parishad movement, which demolished the Babri mosque there in 1992 in order to (re) build the Hindu Ram Janmabhumi temple there. Petroleum was poured into a carriage on the train and set on fire. 59 people died, 48 were also injured. The attack sparked major unrest and pogroms against Muslims in Gujarat state , in which 1,000–2,000 people were killed.

→ Main article : Godhra railway bombing

Rafiganj ( India ) - derailment 

September 10, 2002 - The Rajdhani Express , the Kolkata to New Delhi connects derailed on the bridge over the river Dhave the station Rafiganj in Gaya , two cars plunged into the river. More than 130 people died, 50 were missing and more than 150 injured. The official investigation came to the conclusion that tabs on rail joints had been removed. However, it remained controversial whether it was an attack or an accident.

→ Main article : Rafiganj railway accident

Gooty ( India ) 

December 21, 2002 - After a piece of the track had been cut out, derailed an express train of the South Central Railway , between Hyderabad and Bangalore perverse, near the city Gooty in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh . 20 people were killed. Nobody confessed to the act. The evidence against a suspect who was arrested 13 months after the crime and who was close to the Islamist terrorist organization Laschkar-e Taiba remained scant.

→ Main article : Gooty Railway Accident

Daegu ( South Korea ) 

February 18, 2003 - In the Metro of Daegu ( South Korea ) 192 people died in a suicide attempt. In addition, 148 were injured. The high number of victims was also due to extremely poor fire protection .

→ Main article : Fire in the Daegu subway

Mumbai ( India ) 

March 13, 2003 - A series of attacks on March 12 in Mumbai indirectly affected a regional train. On March 13, 11 people died in the explosion of an explosive device hidden in a first class women's compartment.

Kislovodsk ( Russia ) 

September 3, 2003 - Seven dead and 80 injured as a result of an explosion in a suburban train. The next attack took place nearby:

Essentuki ( Russia ) 

December 5, 2003 - 46 people were killed and 170 injured in a suicide attack on a train in Essentuki / southern Russia .

Moscow ( Russia ) 

February 6, 2004 - 39 people were killed and more than 100 injured in an attack on a fully occupied Moscow metro .

Madrid ( Spain ) 

March 11, 2004 - In the Madrid train attacks by Islamic terrorists, ten bombs exploded in Madrid suburban trains and also in Madrid-Atocha station . They claimed 191 dead and 2051 injured.

→ Main article : Madrid train stops

Uzunovo / Bogatishchevo ( Russia ) 

June 12, 2005 - A bomb attack on the Grozny- Moscow train was carried out at 7:10 a.m. between the Uzunovo and Bogatichevo train stations, 153 km from Moscow . The locomotive and the first four passenger cars derailed. 42 people were injured. Investigators secured the detonator about 50 meters from the embankment.

London ( United Kingdom ) 

July 7, 2005 - Islamist suicide bombers attacked London Underground stations and buses. A total of 56 people died and around 700 were injured. Three of the explosions occurred simultaneously in moving subway trains at around 8:50 a.m. GMT. The attacks on Liverpool Street and Edgware Road left seven people dead. The most serious of the attacks occurred between King's Cross St. Pancras and Russell Square in the middle of the tunnel and left 28 dead.

→ Main article : Terrorist attacks on July 7, 2005 in London

Jaunpur ( India ) 

July 28, 2005 - A bomb attack on the Shramjivi Express near Jaunpur killed 13 people and injured another 50. Responsibility was assigned to the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI).

→ Main article : Jaunpur railway accident

São Paulo ( Brazil ) 

July 7, 2006 - An explosive device exploded in a subway train, injuring 11 people.

Mumbai ( India ) 

July 11, 2006 - Multiple bomb attacks on local trains in Mumbai, killing 207 and injuring 714. Laschkar-e Taiba and SIMI were made responsible for the attack .

→ Main article : 2006 Mumbai bombings

Belacoba ( India ) 

November 20, 2006 - A bomb exploded on a train near Belacoba train station in West Bengal . Seven people died and 53 were also injured.

Diwana ( India ) 

February 18, 2007 - A bomb attack on the Samjhauta Express killed 68 people and injured another 50.

→ Main article : Bomb attack on the Samjhauta Express

Malaja Wischera ( Russia ) 

August 14, 2007 - On the high-speed line between Saint Petersburg and Moscow , an explosive device exploded near Malaya Wischera , causing the Nevsky Express to derail at almost 130 km / h on the way from Moscow to Saint Petersburg . Of the 250 passengers on board the train, 60 were injured and 38 of them were hospitalized.

Colombo ( Sri Lanka ) 

May 26, 2008 - Eight people died and 72 were injured in a bomb attack on the Panadura train in the Dehiwala station suburb .

Bologoje ( Russia ) 

November 27, 2009 - After an explosion near Bologoye ( Russia ), three of the 14 wagons of the Newski Express train, which is occupied by around 650 passengers, derailed on the Saint Petersburg – Moscow high-speed line . At least 26 passengers were killed and around 100 injured. The head of the Russian State Railways , Vladimir Yakunin , officially spoke of a terrorist attack.

Moscow ( Russia ) 

March 29, 2010 - In two explosions in the Moscow Metro , the suicide bombers are attributed, died at least 37 passengers, another 70 were injured.

Manikpara ( India ) 

May 28, 2010 - In an attack by Maoist Naxalites on the Jnaneswari Express from Haora ( Calcutta ) to Mumbai, all thirteen wagons derailed and four tipped onto the track in the opposite direction. An oncoming freight train drove into the accident site. The accident left 148 dead and more than 200 injured.

→ Main article : Manikpara railway accident

Since 2011

Minsk ( Belarus ) 

April 11, 2011 - When an explosive device detonated on the platform of Kastrychnitskaya station (Кастрычніцкая) of the Minsk Metro , 15 people were killed.

→ Main article : Attack on the Minsk Metro

Rangiya ( India ) 

July 10, 2011 - A section of the track was blown away in a bomb attack on a railway line between Rangiya and Ghagrapar . When the express train from Guwahati to Puri , Nalbari , Assam then drove the route, it derailed. 100 people were injured.

Nellore ( India ) 

July 30, 2012 - A sleeping car caught fire on the Tamil Nadu Express . The cause is not clear. Some circumstances suggest it was an attack. 32 people died and 27 were seriously injured.

→ Main article : Nellore railway accident

Dozan ( Pakistan ) 

August 16, 2013 - Two people died in a rocket attack by the Balochistan Liberation Army on the Jaffar Express in Dozan, a suburb of Machh in Balochistan , shortly before the entrance to Bolan train station.

Naseerabad District ( Pakistan ) 

October 21, 2013 - Seven people were killed and 17 others injured in a bomb attack on the Jaffar Express .

Kunming ( People's Republic of China ) 

March 1, 2014 - 34 people were killed and 143 injured in a knife attack by a group of Uyghur separatists on travelers in Kunming train station.

→ Main article : Kunming railway station massacre

Sibi ( Pakistan ) 

April 8, 2014 - 16 people died in a bomb attack by the terrorist organization United Baloch Army on the Jaffar Express in Sibi station.

Belgian-French border ( France , Belgium )  

August 21, 2015 - Several people were injured in a failed attack on a Thalys train.

→ Main article : Attack on the Thalys train 9364

Jerusalem ( Israel ) 

October 2015 - Two people were injured in a knife attack on waiting travelers at a stop on the Jerusalem light rail by a Palestinian youth. The perpetrator was sentenced to 18 years in prison for attempted murder in May 2016 .

Van – Tabriz railway line ( Turkey ) 

2016 - After a bomb attack, at least passenger traffic on the route was suspended until further notice.

Brussels ( Belgium ) 

March 22, 2016 - In a bomb attack on the Brussels Metro , at least 20 people died and around 130 were injured, some seriously. About an hour earlier, two explosives detonated in an attack at Brussels-Zaventem airport . Both attacks were apparently planned together.

→ Main article : Terrorist attacks in Brussels on March 22, 2016

Winterhausen / Würzburg ( Germany ) 

July 18, 2016 - A refugee registered as a minor and unaccompanied attacked travelers on a regional train on the Treuchtlingen – Würzburg railway line with an ax and a knife . Four travelers from Hong Kong were seriously injured. The perpetrator was subsequently shot by a police special task force (SEK) . The investigative authorities assume an Islamist- motivated act.

→ Main article : Attack on a regional train near Würzburg

Salez - Sennwald ( Switzerland ) 

August 13, 2016 - On a train on the S4 from Sargans to St. Gallen , a man attacked passengers with a knife and fire accelerator . Three people - including the perpetrator - died, seven others also suffered severe burns and stab wounds.

Sulz - Röthis ( Austria ) 

August 16, 2016 - On an ÖBB regional train that was traveling from Feldkirch to Bregenz , a mentally confused man attacked two travelers with a knife, who were seriously injured.

Berlin ( Germany ) 

January 3, 2017 - A train of the S1 collided between the stations Mexikoplatz and Zehlendorf with a granite block weighing around 20 kg that had been laid on the track. There was property damage amounting to € 100,000. Three cars were damaged.

Dinslaken ( Germany ) 

January 12, 2017 - The thieves of ATMs did not succeed in breaking it. So they put the device, which weighs half a ton, on a track at Dinslaken station so that it can be "cracked" by a train. A freight train from SBB Cargo International hit the machine and its locomotive, a class 189 , derailed with the leading bogie. 200 meters of track were damaged and the sleepers had to be replaced. The route remained completely closed for five and a half hours. The attack was successful as banknotes flew around the scene of the accident, but these were collected by the police.

Jabri ( India ) 

7 March 2017 - terrorists of the Islamic State committed in the station Jabri, Shajapur district in the state of Madhya Pradesh , a bomb attack on the passenger train from Bhopal to Ujjain . 10 people were injured. This was the first attack by "Islamic State" in India.

Saint Petersburg ( Russia ) 

April 3, 2017 - 14 people died in the April 3 bombing on a train on Line 2 of the Saint Petersburg Metro between Sennaya Ploshchad and Technologichesky Institute stations . Another bomb in the Ploshchad Vosstaniya station did not explode.

Jerusalem ( Israel ) 

April 14, 2017 - A 21-year-old British student was stabbed to death in a Palestinian knife attack on the Jerusalem light rail .

( Germany ) 

June 19, 2017 - In five federal states, 13 arson attacks were carried out simultaneously on cable systems of the railway infrastructure, which led to considerable disruptions in train traffic. Left-wing extremists claimed the acts for themselves.

London ( United Kingdom ) 

September 15, 2017 - The explosion in a London Underground occurred at Parsons Green station on the District Line . At least 22 passengers were injured. The police classified the incident as a terrorist act.

Allersberg ( Germany ) 

October 7, 2018 - On the high-speed line Nuremberg – Ingolstadt – Munich , a steel cable was stretched over the route near Allersberg. When the ICE 821 drove into the obstacle at around 11:15 p.m., the driver heard a suspicious noise. When checking the vehicle after it arrived at Munich Central Station, he discovered that the windshield was damaged. In Allersberg, wooden wedges reinforced with metal parts were found next to the steel cable, which were supposed to derail a train, and a threatening letter in Arabic. On March 25, 2019, a suspect related to the " Islamic State " was arrested in Vienna , and two alleged accomplices in Prague on March 27, 2019.

Berlin-Karlshorst ( Germany ) 

24./25. December 2018 - An attack comparable to the attack on October 7, 2018 in Allersberg took place in Berlin-Karlshorst.

Utrecht ( Netherlands ) 

March 18, 2019 - An armed man shot and killed three people in a tram in Utrecht at around 10:45 a.m. The police arrested the suspect after a short time.

Bad Berleburg ( Germany ) 

April 13, 2019 - On the Erndtebrück – Bad Berleburg ( Rothaarbahn ) line, strangers hung several manhole covers on ropes from a bridge over the rails. At around 6:25 a.m., these broke through the windshield of the first train that ran that morning, a scheduled empty run of a Hessian State Railroad's railcar. The driver was slightly injured. In the preliminary investigation, the driver was then suspected of having orchestrated the attack himself, was arrested, but released again for lack of grounds for detention. The investigation continues.

Hong Kong ( Hong Kong ) 

21./22. July 2019 - 2019 Yuen Long attack : An armed mob from triad societies, over 400 men in white clothes, indiscriminately attacked civilians on streets with steel bars and rattan sticks and attacked passengers in the MTR Yuen Long station. Some passengers returned from protesting the extradition law in Sheung Wan.

Niedernhausen ( Germany ) 

March 20, 2020 - Rail bolts were loosened over a length of 80 meters on the Theiss valley bridge on the ICE route Frankfurt – Cologne . A train driver noticed the disruption while driving on the route without causing any further damage. A letter of confession addressed to the Chancellor and other politicians led the investigators on the trail of a man with a previous conviction for extortion with a car in which there were special tools. The suspect was taken into custody.

Osterhofen ( Germany ) 

April 25, 2020 - Near Osterhofen (Deggendorf district) on the Regensburg – Passau railway line , an ICE drove over several concrete slabs that strangers had placed on the tracks. The train did not derail, nobody was injured. A suspect was arrested in early May.

See also

• List of disasters
• List of serious accidents in rail transport
• Navigation bar lists of railway accidents

literature

• Klaus Kemp: Regiebahn. Reparations, occupation, war against the Ruhr, Reichsbahn. The railways in the Rhineland and the Ruhr area 1918–1930 . EK-Verlag , Freiburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-8446-6404-1 .
• Jack Riley: Terrorism and Rail Security . 2004.
• Hans-Joachim Ritzau, Jürgen Höstel: The disaster scenes of the present = railway accidents in Germany Vol. 2. Pürgen 1983, ISBN 3-921304-50-4 .
• Peter WB Semmens: Disasters on the rails. A worldwide documentation. Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71030-3 .
• Thomas Wunschel: For lower reasons - sabotage and assassinations as causes of accidents . In: Martin Weltner: Railway disasters. Serious train accidents and their causes. Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7654-7096-7 , pp. 132-135.

Remarks

1. ^ Hans-Otto Meissner: Railway Safari. On rails through five continents . Bertelsmann, Munich 1980, p. 111, confuses both trains here also with regard to the railway accident in Frankfurt Central Station .
2. ↑ What is meant is a military transport.
3. ↑ Today: Belgium.
4. ↑ Inconsistent location information from Kemp: Regiebahn , p. 297.
5. ↑ Information on the affected route at Kemp: Regiebahn , p. 297, ambiguous.
6. ↑ For this incident, February 18, 1923 is mentioned elsewhere (Kemp: Regiebahn , p. 136).
7. ↑ The location given in Semmens, p. 104, “bei Jairampur”, could not be assigned to a location that is said to be 128 km from Calcutta.
8. ↑ Semmens, p. 162, writes "Bandjar".
9. ↑ There are no precise details of the time and place of this attack.
10. ↑ Semmens, p. 171, mentions - incorrectly - April 26, 1966 as the day of the attack.
11. ↑ The place name cannot be identified. Maybe Bangalore is meant.
12. ↑ That roughly corresponds to the location of Romeas train station.
13. ↑ Among the injured is the overwhelmed assassin.
14. ↑ In addition, the perpetrator injured a woman who was walking her dog.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Verkehrsmuseum Dresden gGmH (Ed.): Germany becomes mobile. 175 years of the Leipzig-Dresden Railway . Dresden 2014, ISBN 978-3-936240-03-0 , p. 35.
2. ↑ Wunschel, p. 132.
3. ↑ A reproduction of the drawing for the accident report can be seen in the permanent exhibition of the Nuremberg Transport Museum.
4. ^ Preston Filbert: The Half Not Told. The Civil War in a Frontier Town. ISBN 0-8117-1536-1 .
5. ↑ Luís Filipe Rosa Santos: Os Acessos a Faro e aos Concelhos Limítrofes na Segunda Metade do Séc. XIX. Faro 1995, p. 130.
6. ↑ Lincoln Journal-Star v. February 22, 2010: Epilogue: A forgotten mystery of death and destruction and Original story from 1894: Death by fire .
7. ^ Ludwig Ritter von Stockert : Railway accidents. A contribution to railway operations theory. Vol. 1, Leipzig 1913, p. 269, no. 197. Stockert does not provide any information on whether the perpetrator or perpetrators could be identified.
8. ^ Ludwig Ritter von Stockert: Railway accidents. A contribution to railway operations theory. Vol. 1, Leipzig 1913, p. 270, no.198.
9. ^ Hans-Otto Meissner: Railway Safari. On rails through five continents . Bertelsmann, Munich 1980, p. 111.
10. ^ Ludwig Ritter von Stockert: Railway accidents. A contribution to railway operations theory. Vol. 1, Leipzig 1913, p. 270, no.199.
11. ^ World War One - News - Rossendale Free Press .
12. ^ Hans Joachim Ritzau: Railway disasters in Germany. Splinters of German history . Vol. 1: Landsberg-Pürgen 1979, p. 72.
13. ↑ Justin D. Murphy: Military Aircraft, Origins to 1918: An Illustrated History of Their Impact . 2005, p. 66; Getting Henry D. Sokolski: MAD: Nuclear Mutual Assured Destruction, Its Origins and Practice . (pdf) 2004, ISBN 1-58487-172-5 , pp. 19f; Neil Hanson: The first Blitz: the secret German plan to raze London to the ground in 1918 . London 2008, p. 126 f.
14. ↑ Ludwig Stockert : Railway Accidents (New Series) - Another contribution to railway operations theory . Berlin 1920, no.317.
15. ^ Wunschel, p. 134.
16. ^ Wunschel, p. 133.
17. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t} Klaus Kemp: Regiebahn. Reparations, occupation, war against the Ruhr, Reichsbahn. The railways in the Rhineland and the Ruhr area 1918–1930 . EK-Verlag , Freiburg 2016. ISBN 978-3-8446-6404-1 , p. 296.
18. ^ Hans Joachim Ritzau: Railway disasters in Germany. Splinters of German history . Vol. 1: Landsberg-Pürgen 1979, p. 110.
19. ^ Hans Joachim Ritzau: Railway disasters in Germany. Splinters of German history . Vol. 1: Landsberg-Pürgen 1979, p. 84.
20. ↑ Kemp: Regiebahn , p. 138.
21. ↑ Kemp: Regiebahn , p. 106.
22. ↑ Kemp: Regiebahn , p. 105.
23. ↑ Kemp: Regiebahn , pp. 137, 296.
24. ↑ Kemp: Regiebahn , pp. 104, 296.
25. ↑ Kemp: Regiebahn , p. 99.
26. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af} Kemp: Regiebahn , p. 297.
27. ↑ Kemp: Regiebahn , p. 297f.
28. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Kemp: Regiebahn , p. 136.
29. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t} Kemp: Regiebahn , p. 298.
30. ↑ Kemp: Regiebahn , p. 298. The location information there cannot be assigned conclusively.
31. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m} Kemp: Regiebahn , p. 299.
32. ↑ Kemp: Regiebahn , p. 131.
33. ↑ Kemp: Regiebahn , p. 299; According to information on page 136, the incident is said to have taken place on December 27, 1923.
34. ↑ Kemp: Regiebahn , pp. 136, 299.
35. ↑ Twenty Killed in Shanghai Wreck , United Press . In: The Beaver Falls Tribune v. August 26, 1926, p. 1.
36. ↑ Semmens, p. 82f.
37. ↑ Thomas Weyrauch: China's neglected republic. 100 years in the shadow of world history . Volume 1: 1911-1949. Longtai 2009, ISBN 978-3-938946-14-5 ; Ronald Suleski: Civil Government in Warlord China. Tradition, Modernization and Manchuria = Studies in modern Chinese History 3. New York 2002, ISBN 0-8204-5278-5 .
38. ↑ ^{a b} crime. Railway attacks: there will be a crash . In: Der Spiegel . No. 1 , 1968 ( online ).
39. ^ Hans Joachim Ritzau: Railway disasters in Germany. Splinters of German history . Vol. 1: Landsberg-Pürgen 1979, p. 113.
40. ^ Julius Donath: The psychopathology of the railway bomber Sylvester Matuska. In: International Journal of Legal Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. Volume 20, No. 1, December 1933. pp. 53-58; Bruno Schultz: The Sylvester Matuska case. In: Archives for Criminology. Vogel, Berlin 1932, volume 91, p. 127 ff; Wunschel, p. 133.
41. ↑ NN: Britisher killed by bandits . In: The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser v. September 28, 1931.
42. ^ Ludwig Ranzenberger Victims of Terror of the Nazi Movement in Austria 1933-1938 , on doew.at
43. ^ Hans Joachim Ritzau: Railway disasters in Germany. Splinters of German history . Vol. 1: Landsberg-Pürgen 1979, p. 46.
44. ↑ Semmens, p. 98.
45. ^ Howard Hickson: Recalling a Train Wreck. (with photographs)
46. ^ Howard Hickson: Recalling a Train Wreck. In: Northeastern Nevada Historical Society Quarterly (80-1)
47. ^ FS Foote, Jr .: City of San Francisco Wreck. In: Northeastern Nevada Historical Society Quarterly (90-1).
48. ↑ NN: Japanese Military Train Derailed . In: The Strait Times v. October 2, 1939.
49. ↑ ^{a b} Semmens, p. 104.
50. ^ Hans Joachim Ritzau: Railway disasters in Germany. Splinters of German history . Vol. 1: Landsberg-Pürgen 1979, p. 137.
51. ^ Rolf-Dieter Müller: The bombing war 1939-1945 . Berlin 2004, p. 176.
52. ↑ Rolf Brüning: With steam on the north-south route between Main and Fulda = color picture rarities from the Dr. Rolf Brüning 9. Hövelhof 2014, p. 83.
53. ↑ Thomas Heiler and Beate Kann: Fulda railway junction . Erfurt 2011, p. 75.
54. ↑ Jernbaneulykker i Norge (List of rail accidents and disasters in Norway)
55. ^ Svein Sando: Mer om Hommelvik-ulykken i 1940 and other jernbaneulykker (accident at Hommelvik et al.)
56. ^ Fra Vidkun Quisling til Einar Gerhardsen. ( Memento of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), In: Samfunnsmagasinet v. April 21, 2006
57. ↑ Memorial plaque in Treuchtlingen train station.
58. ↑ NN: Land mine wrecks train, killing 100 . In: Spokane Daily Chronicle v. May 31, 1947.
59. ↑ Semmens, p. 120.
60. ↑ Special Correspondent: Ghastly Toll in Massacres . In: The Age v. September 26, 1947.
61. ↑ Special Correspondent: Ghastly Toll in Massacres . In: The Age v. September 26, 1947.
62. ↑ Semmens, p. 122.
63. ↑ Semmens, p. 124.
64. ↑ NN: 25 Chinese dead in train wreck , Spokane Daily Chronicle v. September 4, 1948.
65. ^ NN: Mine blows up train in China, 100 killed . In: Eugene Register-Guard v. September 16, 1948.
66. ↑ NN: Descarrila el expreso Barcelona-Madrid, ¿accidente o sabotaje? . In: La Vanguerdia v. November 29, 2014.
67. ↑ Semmens, p. 127.
68. ↑ Semmens, p. 127.
69. ↑ Semmens, p. 128.
70. ^ Indochina Rail Crash Kills 100. In: Playground News (Fort Walton Beach, Florida) of June 25, 1953. Volume 8, No. 22, p. 8.
71. ↑ Semmens, p. 157.
72. ↑ Semmens, p. 162.
73. ↑ Semmens, p. 164.
74. ↑ Semmens, p. 164.
75. ↑ Semmens, p. 165.
76. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Ritzau: Katastrophenszenen , p. 158.
77. ↑ Semmens, p. 168.
78. ↑ CRIME / RAILWAY ATTACKS: Detected my bomb . In: Der Spiegel . No. 43 , 1967 ( online ).
79. ↑ Semmens, p. 171.
80. ↑ NN: 55 killed, 127 hurt in India train blast . In: The Miami News v. April 21, 1966; Semmens, p. 171.
81. ↑ Semmens, p. 171; NN: Train blast death toll climbs to 40 . In: The Spokesman Review v. April 25, 1966.
82. ↑ Semmens, p. 171.
83. ↑ Trento: Bomb attack on a train - two dead. Policemen sacrificed themselves for the travelers . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna October 1, 1967, p. 1 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
84. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Ritzau: Katastrophenszenen , p. 159.
85. ↑ Semmens, p. 177.
86. ↑ Wunschel, p. 135; Ritzau, Katastrophenszenen , p. 159f, names 20 injured.
87. ↑ Semmens, p. 187.
88. ↑ Hans-Joachim Ritzau, Jürgen Höstel: The catastrophe scenes of the present = railway accidents in Germany Vol. 2. Pürgen 1983, ISBN 3-921304-50-4 , p. 160.
89. ↑ Chronology of the conflict 1978 and Sutton Index of Deaths 1978 . In: University of Ulster: Conflict and Politics in Northern Ireland (CAIN).
90. ↑ ^{a b} Hans-Joachim Ritzau, Jürgen Höstel: The catastrophe scenes of the present = railway accidents in Germany Vol. 2. Pürgen 1983, ISBN 3-921304-50-4 , p. 161.
91. ↑ Semmens, p. 189.
92. ↑ Semmens, p. 189.
93. ↑ Hans-Joachim Ritzau, Jürgen Höstel: The catastrophe scenes of the present = railway accidents in Germany, vol. 2. Pürgen 1983, ISBN 3-921304-50-4 , p. 162.
94. ↑ Semmens, p. 192.
95. ↑ Semmens, p. 209.
96. ↑ Semmens, p. 211.
97. ↑ Semmens, p. 213.
98. ↑ Semmens, p. 221.
99. ^ NN: Major train disasters in Andhra . In: zeenews.india.com.
100. ↑ Semmens, p. 223.
101. ↑ Semmens, p. 224.
102. ↑ Semmens, p. 225.
103. ^ ^{A b} Smriti Chand: Indian Railway: Significance and Problems of Indian Railways
104. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of December 9, 1998, perpetrators loosened screws and lifted tracks / train was not damaged Another attack on ICE route to Berlin ( memento from April 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
105. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of December 21, 1998, Federal Border Guard intensifies patrols on Berlin routes ( Memento of June 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
106. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of December 21, 1998, series of attacks ( Memento of March 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
107. ↑ Wunschel, p. 135.
108. ↑ Berliner Zeitung dated December 24, 1998, suspect makes confession Two men from Saxony in custody / GSG 9 accesses motorway rest area when handing over money / Admittedly involvement in three attacks: Police arrest rail blackmailers ( Memento from March 9, 2016 on the Internet Archives )
109. ↑ Swiss Railway Review 5/2003 p. 2015.
110. ^ NN: Railroad Traffic Restored . In: RIA Novosti v. June 13, 2005.
111. ^ Indian Railways - A political blog .
112. ↑ sda: devastating attack. In: Eisenbahn-Revue International. 1/2010, p. 36.
113. ↑ Over 100 hurt in Guwahati-Puri Express train derailment . In: Jagran Post , July 11, 2011. Retrieved September 4, 2014. 
114. ↑ Three killed as Jaffar Express attacked in Bolan 31 injured in attack ( Memento of the original from April 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
115. ↑ Seven killed in a bomb explosion in the Jaffar Express train in Quetta ( Memento of the original from May 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
116. ↑ UBA bomb attack on Jaffar Express in Sibi leaves 16 dead, 44 injured .
117. ↑ Reproduction of a report from the Times of Israel from November 24, 2016. In: HaRakevet 115, p. 14.
118. ^ NN: System Improvements . In HaRakevet 115 (December 2016), p. 22 (23).
119. ↑ ^{a b} sda: knife attacks in trains . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , 10/2016, p. 514.
120. ↑ db / schr: attack on Berlin S-Bahn with granite block in the track . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 2/2017, p. 64.
121. ↑ sda / mr: ATM on the rails . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 3/2017, p. 136.
122. ↑ Bhopal-Ujjain passenger train blast: Pipe bomb used for explosion, confirms MP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan , Zee News . March 8, 2017. 
123. ↑ 8 injured in Bhopal-Ujjain passenger train blast
124. ↑ Bhopal-Ujjain train blast a terrorist attack, says Madhya Pradesh top cop
125. ↑ Nine injured in blast in Bhopal-Ujjain passenger train
126. ↑ Lucknow encounter: 6 from UP held after train blast, 2 holed up (en-US) . In: The Indian Express , March 8, 2017. 
127. ↑ Bhopal-Ujjain passenger train explosion: Arms, passports found in house, 7th arrest made , The Indian Express . March 9, 2017. 
128. ↑ Man shot dead in Lucknow, others were self-radicalized, says UP ATS chief , The Hindu . March 9, 2017. 
129. ^ Ujjain train blast marks first IS attack in India 10 injured , Times of India . March 8, 2017. 
130. ↑ Terror train: Islamic State's first attack in India should lead to security re-evaluation , Times of India . March 9, 2017. 
131. ^ NN: Murderous Terrorist Attack in a Tram . In: Times of Israel of April 14, 2017. Cited from: HaRakevet 117 (June 2017), p. 12f.
132. ↑ db / schr: attacks on cable systems of the DB . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 8–9 / 2017, p. 376.
133. ↑ DIE WELT: Police: More than 20 people injured in a bomb explosion in the London Underground . In: THE WORLD . September 15, 2017 ( welt.de [accessed September 15, 2017]).
134. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH: Explosion in a wagon: Several people injured in a "terrorist act" in the London underground. September 15, 2017. Retrieved September 15, 2017 . 
135. ^ Danny Boyle: Parsons Green terror attack: Hunt for Tube 'bucket bomber' on District Line - latest news . In: The Telegraph . September 15, 2017, ISSN  0307-1235 ( telegraph.co.uk [accessed September 15, 2017]).
136. ↑ sda / pd / schr: Attacks on DB routes: Suspected perpetrators caught . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 5/2019, p. 236.
137. ↑ schr: Unknown people tension the wire rope over the DB route . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 12/2016, p. 614.
138. ↑ sda / pd / schr: Attacks on DB routes: Suspected perpetrators caught . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 5/2019, p. 236.
139. ↑ sda / pd / schr: Attacks on DB routes: Suspected perpetrators caught . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 5/2019, p. 236.
140. ^ NN: Attack in Utrecht Terror? New turn after shots in tram . In: merkur.de. Retrieved March 19, 2019.
141. ↑ schr: manhole cover attack on HLB train . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 6/2019, p. 284.
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