Stockton Railway Accident
In the Stockton railway accident on August 4, 1944 near Stockton , Georgia , USA, a passenger train derailed and the derailed wagons hit a waiting freight train traveling in the opposite direction. 47 people died.
Starting position
The accident occurred on a single-track line on the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad . The route had been thoroughly examined a year before the accident without any fault in the track system having been found. A passenger train traveled the route that day.
the accident
A broken rail occurred under the moving train . Its ninth and tenth car derailed. During the ninth car, a Pullman - sleeper , it was virtually undamaged and within its own structure gauge came to a stop, was the subsequent, occupied closely with railway workers against the waiting in the siding locomotive of a freight train thrown. The engine driver was scalded.
consequences
47 people died, 36 were also injured. All victims were in the last car. By contrast, none of the passengers in the Pullman sleeper were injured.
See also
literature
- Peter WB Semmens: Disasters on the rails. A worldwide documentation. Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71030-3 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Semmens, p. 111.