Railway accident in Zagorje

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During the railway accident in Zagorje on January 19, 1917, a mail train on the Austrian Southern Railway was hit by a landslide between the train stations Zagorje (Sagor) and Trbovlje (Trifail), then: Austria-Hungary , today: Slovenia . Part of the train was buried, another part of the train was pushed into the Sava. A relief train also drove into the rubble, which claimed more lives. 40 people died in the railway accident .

literature

  • Peter WB Semmens: Disasters on the rails. A worldwide documentation. Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71030-3 , p. 49.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Semmens deals with the accident under two different entries: On the one hand under "Sagor, Slovenia", on the other hand under the name of the neighboring station Trifail, under "Trifail, Austria".