Railway accident in Luga

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The Luga railway accident in January 1921 affected a mixed train from Novgorod to Leningrad , Soviet Russia . The train also carried gasoline . At full speed , the cargo exploded near Luga and the train caught fire. 68 people died.

literature

  • Peter WB Semmens: Disasters on the rails. A worldwide documentation. Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71030-3 , p. 60.