Wake Railway Accident

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In the railway accident of Wake ( Japanese. 山 陽線 列車 脱 線 転 覆 事故 , San'yō-sen ressha dassen tempuku jiko , German "train derailment and tipping accident on the San'yō route") derailed on June 15, 1938 a night train between the Kumayama and Wake Railway Stations in Okayama Prefecture , Japan . 25 people died.

Starting position

The train 110 of the Japanese State Railways (JNR) with 14 cars , pulled by a steam locomotive of the class C53 , was traveling from Shimonoseki to Kyoto on the double-track San'yō route . It had been extended for the trip to bring students from Hashimoto Secondary Elementary School in Wakayama Prefecture home from a school trip.

A typhoon brought heavy rain that night .

the accident

Floods eroded the embankment between Kumayama and Wake stations. This was by track guards also reported. Thereupon the management decided to interrupt the rail traffic . However, the relevant instruction did not reach the train crew in time. The fast to Shimonoseki drove into the damaged track section into it, the locomotive and four cars (three persons and a sleeping car of the third class ), the too heavy for the eroded superstructure were derailed , overturned and fell into the clearance gauge of the track, the Opposite direction. There approached train 801, which was traveling from Uno station in Tamano to Kyoto. He went against 3:56 in the accident site and the derailed cars inside.

consequences

25 people died and 108 others were injured. 61 children from the school trip were also among the victims. The three teachers who accompanied the school children were killed.

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ Other sources (Museum Tamano) name 20 dead and 187 injured.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 【快速 列車 、 吉井川 沿 い で 脱 線 転 覆】 . 玉 島 歴 史館 (Tamano Historical Museum), accessed on May 19, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Saito.

Coordinates: 34 ° 47 '32.2 "  N , 134 ° 8' 5.4"  E