Tamagawaguchi Railway Accident
In the railway accident Tamagawaguchi ( Jap. , Among others 米坂線雪崩事故 , Yonesaka-sen nadare-jiko , "avalanche accident on the Yonesaka Line") was on March 4, 1940, a train near the 1995 disused station Tamagawaguchi at the Yonesaka Line in the south of Yamagata prefecture in northern Japan torn away by an avalanche . 37 people died.
the accident
The point of the railway line on which the accident occurred was formed by two tunnels that were connected by a bridge. An avalanche hit the bridge just as a train was leaving one of the tunnels. The bridge collapsed and the train fell 22 meters into the Arakawa river bed .
literature
- Peter WB Semmens: Disasters on the rails. A worldwide documentation. Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71030-3 , p. 102.