Villeneuve-Saint-Georges railway accident
In the railway accident of Villeneuve-Saint-Georges derailed on 29 July 1937 at the train station of Villeneuve-Saint-Georges , a train. 29 people died.
Starting position
Villeneuve-Saint-Georges train station is on the Paris-Marseille railway line . Train no. 107 of the Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (PLM) left at 22:35 the Gare de Lyon in Paris on this route to Nimes . As the fourth car, he was in charge of an older, 3rd class car that still had a wooden body. This first train was followed 15 minutes later by train no. 511 in the direction of Switzerland , but it was routed through the station on other tracks as planned .
the accident
The signal box employees mixed up the two trains or the intended routes. Train no. 107 then passed a switch that was in a branching position at 80 km / h, a speed that was much too high for that. The train derailed. The wooden 3rd class car was badly damaged.
literature
- Peter WB Semmens: Disasters on the rails. A worldwide documentation. Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71030-3 .