Tengchatang railway accident
The Tengchatang railway accident was a shunting accident in the Chinese province of Hunan on October 22, 1936, killing 60 people.
Starting position
On the railway line from Guangzhou to Hangzhou , a military transport on the road, the soldiers who had Republic of China carried into the interior, who had fought an insurgency in southern China. The wagons of the train were very busy. The train was also extremely long with 24 cars and was pulled by two steam locomotives. In order to be able to take a difficult incline better, the train was divided into two parts. The rear part of the train should wait at the foot of the incline until the front part had overcome it. The first locomotive tackled the incline with twelve wagons, but it couldn't. The train crew then uncoupled four cars and left them standing on the track to fetch them with a second run and pull them over the remaining incline.
the accident
An officer forced the engine driver , who had the rear part of the train on the hook, to drive into the line before the report was made that the front part of the train had cleared the line. The four cars parked on the slope began to roll downhill and collided with the rear part of the train coming towards them.
consequences
60 people died and 100 more were injured.
Web links
- Associated Press: China train wreck kills 60 people . In: The Calgary Daily Herald v. October 26, 1936, p. 3.
Remarks
- ↑ A comparable intervention by the military in the railway operations triggered the railway accident at Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne in France in 1917, one of the most serious railway accidents of all, in which around 700 people died.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Associated Press : China train wreck .
- ↑ Associated Press: China train wreck .