List of serious accidents in rail transport
Map with all linked sites: This article contains a chronological listing of major accidents in rail transport .
An accident is considered significant for the purposes of this list if it
- killed at least 50 people,
- resulted in a major loss event,
- Has a connection to a significant personality,
- triggered technical innovations or otherwise had a signal effect or
- was the first of its kind.
Not here , but elsewhere, are listed:
- Attacks in rail traffic. See list of attacks in rail traffic .
- Accidents that gave rise to literary processing. See list of railway accidents as a literary topic .
- Boiler explosions. These generally do not meet the above criteria, but are listed in the Kesselzerknall article .
Until 1800
- Whickham ( County Durham United Kingdom ) - Pedestrians run over
- April or July 1650 - Two boys died after being run over by Hunten mine trains running on wooden rails. It is the oldest known accident involving rail vehicles with a fatal outcome.
19th century
Until 1830
- Philadelphia ( County Durham United Kingdom ) - Kettle Bang
- July 31, 1815 - The boiler of the experimental steam locomotive Mechanical Traveler exploded, killing 16 (according to another source 13) bystanders. This accident is the oldest known boiler explosion of a locomotive.
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Middleton Railway ( United Kingdom ) - First non-railroader killed in an accident
- December 5, 1821 - The first fatally injured non-railroad worker was probably the carpenter David Brook. In heavy sleet weather he ran on the railway line. He overlooked a train and was fatally injured.
- St. Helens ( United Kingdom ) - First known rear-end collision between two trains
- September 15, 1830 - During the opening ceremonies of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway , a number of trains carrying guests of honor traveled the route one behind the other within sight. When a car derailed , the train stopped and the following train pulled up at moderate speed. There were no injuries.
- Newton-le-Willows ( United Kingdom ) - First prominent fatality
- September 15, 1830 - The politician William Huskisson became the first prominent fatality in a railway accident when he was run over by the locomotive The Rocket on the opening day of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway . In the literature, he is incorrectly named as the first person to ever die in a railroad accident.
1831-1840
- Hightstown (New Jersey, United States ) - Derailment after a hot runner and subsequent broken axle
- November 11, 1833 - Two cars derailed on a train between Hightstown and Spotswood , New Jersey , on the South Amboy – Bordentown railway line . Two passengers were killed and 21 passengers injured. Prominent fellow travelers included Cornelius Vanderbilt , who later became president of the New York Central Railroad , who broke his leg, and former US President John Quincy Adams . This was the first railway accident in which passengers on a scheduled train were killed.
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Salford ( United Kingdom ) - First known accident by train separation
- May 11, 1834 - After a train separation on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the part of the train that is no longer connected to the locomotive runs away. A person is injured in the process.
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Suffolk ( Virginia United States ) - head-on collision
- August 11, 1837 - A freight train and a passenger train collided head-on on a single-track line that was being driven on sight. Three dead and dozen injured were the result. This was the first head-on collision between two trains with fatalities in railway history.
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Wakefield ( United Kingdom ) - First known accident by bridge collapse
- November 8, 1838 - A train derailed and crashed after a bridge on the Manchester and Leeds Railway collapsed. One person died and eight others were injured.
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Howden ( Yorkshire United Kingdom ) - Derailed due to slipped cargo
- August 7, 1840 - On a mixed train traveling on the Hull and Selby Railway between Leeds and Hull , cargo came loose, fell on the rails and derailed the train. It is the earliest known railroad accident that had slipped cargo as the cause and which resulted in deaths. Four people died and others were injured. This was the first railway accident in the world to be investigated by a railway inspectorate.
1841-1850
- Sonning ( United Kingdom ) - Derailment after landslide
- December 24, 1841 - A mixed train from London to Bristol derailed in a cut near Sonning. Of the 38 passengers in the third- class open carriages , nine died and 16 were seriously injured. As a result of this accident, the Railway Regulation Act was passed by the British Parliament in 1844 , which, among other things, prescribed closed vehicles for third class.
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Versailles ( France ) - derailment after an axle break
- May 8, 1842 - A train derailed after an axle break on the prestressing machine . 50 people burned to death in the wooden wagons that were set on fire by the embers from the fire box . The number of injuries is no longer known. The compartment doors were locked for security reasons, so that many travelers could not save themselves in time.
- Chester, United Kingdom - Bridge collapse due to design and material defects
- May 24, 1847 - While a train was crossing, the railway bridge built by Robert Stephenson over the Dee on the North Wales Coast Line of the Chester and Holyhead Railway collapsed . He killed five and injured a number of people. The main reasons were the use of cast iron in the load-bearing parts and the weight of ballast applied subsequently as fire protection for the wooden parts of the bridge. But it would be almost 50 years before cast-iron railway bridges completely disappeared. The accident was a severe blow to Stephenson's reputation as an engineer.
1851-1860
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Gütersloh-Avenwedde ( Prussia ) - derailment
- January 21, 1851 - A train from Minden to the Rhineland derailed on the main line of the Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft in the area of today's Gütersloh - Avenwedde . The result was three fatalities. Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia, who later became Emperor Friedrich III , also traveled on the train, but was only slightly injured. In 1860, as a thank you for being saved from the railway accident, he donated the zinc die-cast of a baptismal angel by Bertel Thorvaldsen for the Martin Luther Church in Gütersloh.
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Andover ( Massachusetts United States ) - Broken axle
- January 6, 1853 - An axle broke on the only passenger car on a Boston to Lawrence train on the Boston and Maine Railroad . The car fell down an embankment and broke. The rest of the train, the locomotive, and a baggage car remained on the track. Travelers on the train were the newly elected President of the United States , Franklin Pierce , and his family. The only casualty in the accident was the 11-year-old son of the president. His parents subsequently struggled with severe depression and Franklin Pierce developed a drinking problem.
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Norwalk ( United States ) - train drivers overlooked signal that secured an open swing bridge
- May 6, 1853 - A train crashed into the Norwalk River due to a swing bridge at Norwalk Station that was open to shipping . 48 people died, 8 were missing, 30 injured. The accident was the first major one in the United States to involve a bridge .
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Baptiste Creek ( Province of Canada , United Kingdom ) - Dispatcher error, express train ran into construction train
- October 27, 1854 - After the dispatcher of the Baptiste Creek station gave the train driver inaccurate information, he put a construction train back on the track . An hour late express train on the Great Western Railway from Niagara Falls to Windsor crashed into this heavy gravel train. The energy of the impact was largely absorbed by the fact that the first passenger coaches of the express train, which were mainly made of wood, were smashed. 52 people were killed and 48 injured. A large number of the dead were German emigrants on their way to the USA.
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Ambler ( Pennsylvania United States ) - head-on collision
- July 17, 1856 - More than 59 people died and more than 100 were injured in the head-on collision of an excursion train, which was mainly occupied by children and young people. The reason for the accident was insufficient train protection on the single-track line.
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Hamilton ( Province of Canada , United Kingdom ) - A train derailed after a broken axle, damaged bridge and crashed into canal
- March 12, 1857 - A Great Western Railway train carrying around 100 passengers from Toronto to Hamilton was affected . 59 people died and a large number were injured. The cause of the triggering axle break could never be clarified.
- Round Oak ( United Kingdom ) - Lost part of the train collides with the next train
- 23 August 1858 - Because the brakeman did not secure the train stopping at Round Oak station by applying the brakes and at the same time broke a clutch , one part of the train rolled down a slope and collided with the following train. 14 people died and at least 50 others were injured. This was the most momentous railway accident in Great Britain up to that point.
1861-1870
- Clayton Tunnel ( United Kingdom ) - Collision in the tunnel
- On August 25, 1861, in the Clayton Tunnel - 7 km north of Brighton - a passenger train collided with a retreating special train. 23 people died, around 176 were mostly seriously injured. The tunnel was secured with a block signal in front of every portal operated by the train or a guard. The causes were a defective signal, communication errors and a route safety system based on driving in time intervals, the minimum intervals of which, however, were not observed.
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Mont-Saint-Hilaire ( Province of Canada , United Kingdom ) - The driver overlooked Signal that an open swing bridge was secured
- June 29, 1864 - Near what is now Mont-Saint-Hilaire in Québec , a train crashed into the Richelieu River due to a swing bridge that was open to shipping . 99 dead and over 100 injured were the result. There were also numerous immigrants from Germany and Poland on the train.
- Abergele ( County Conwy , United Kingdom ) - Escaped freight cars carrying dangerous goods set fire to an oncoming passenger train
- August 20, 1868 - The train that crashed was the " Irish Mail " of the London and North Western Railway (LNWR), an express train from London's Euston station to Holyhead . The freight wagons had escaped while shunting, were loaded with highly flammable paraffin oil and set the express train's wooden passenger cars on fire. 33 people died, including very prominent people at the time, including Henry Maxwell, 7th Baron Farnham . This was the worst rail accident in the UK to date and the first major worldwide to be caused by dangerous goods.
1871-1880
- Colombier ( Switzerland ) - Driveway to parked freight train
- On March 22, 1871 , as a result of incorrectly setting the switches in Colombier station, a special train carrying members of the military who belonged to the interned French Bourbaki army collided with a parked freight train consisting of 22 coal wagons and a baggage car. A platoon leader and 22 internees died and 72 were injured. This was the worst railway accident in Switzerland to date.
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- Thorpe ( Norfolk , England, United Kingdom ) - Head-on collision following failures in the train control system
- On September 10, 1874 , a mail train carrying passengers and a delayed express train collided on a single-track line east of Norwich after several mistakes had been made by those responsible for train safety. 25 people were killed. Because of this accident, the engineer Edward Tyer developed the first electric train protection system, the Electric Tablet System .
- Shipton (England, United Kingdom ) - Derailment after tire breakage and brake failure
- On December 24, 1874 , a tire broke on a carriage on the express train from London Paddington to Birkenhead near Shipton-on-Cherwell due to its outdated design. In addition, the communication line between the train and the locomotives failed and the then common braking of trains by brakes on individual wagons was far too weak compared to the power of the emergency braking by the locomotives. Most of the train's wagons derailed. 34 people died in the accident and 65 were seriously injured. The accident accelerated the retrofitting of the railroad vehicles to continuous compressed air or vacuum brakes .
- Timelkam ( Austria ) - Derailment after a wheel tire broke
- On October 19, 1875, the AMSTETTEN locomotive derailed on the Austrian Western Railway at Timelkam station between Linz and Salzburg . The cause was a material defect. The fact that a material subjected to alternating stresses has a lower load capacity than a statically loaded material was not yet known. This was only discovered by August Wöhler . Since then, the deformation and failure behavior of materials under cyclic loading has been determined in the Wöhler test .
- Balta ( Russia ) - Derailment in construction site and fire
- October 10th July / October 22, 1875 greg. - A train derailed in a construction site between the Balta and Birsula stations and burned out. 70 people died and 120 others were injured.
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- Ashtabula Bridge (Ohio, United States ) - bridge collapse
- December 29, 1876 - The Pacific Express from Erie, Philadelphia, fell 21 meters on the frozen river when the bridge over the Ashtabula River collapsed . The wagons caught fire and melted the ice, causing some wagons to sink into the river. 92 travelers were killed, including the well-known religious American composer Philip P. Bliss . The cause were design and construction defects. It was the most momentous rail accident in the United States to date. The accident resulted in improved standards for bridges, load tests and bridge inspections being introduced in the USA.
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- Firth of Tay (Scotland, UK ) - Bridge collapse due to planning and construction errors
- December 28, 1879 - In a hurricane, part of the three-kilometer Firth of Tay Bridge collapsed when an express train passed through it. All 72 travelers and train employees were killed. Theodor Fontane addressed the event in his ballad Die Brück 'am Tay .
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Rimutaka ( New Zealand today Remutaka ) - derailment due to gusts of wind
- September 11, 1880 - A train from Greytown to Wellington was traveling on a steep section in the Remutaka Range operated by the Fell system. Three pushed cars were pushed off the track by very strong gusts of wind and crashed. Since the coupling held - just like the clamp of the Fell locomotive to the center rail - and the weight of the locomotive prevented the entire train from crashing, there were only four deaths. It is the oldest documented railway accident caused by wind.
1881-1890
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Cuautla ( Mexico ) - bridge collapse
- June 22/24, 1881 - When a newly built railway bridge, which had only been in operation a few days earlier, collapsed under a moving train, more than 200 people were killed and 40 were injured. River water had washed away the foundations of the bridge.
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- Hugstetten ( German Empire ) - derailment
- September 3, 1882 - A special train with 1200 passengers derailed near Hugstetten on the Freiburg im Breisgau – Colmar line . 64 people died and 225 were injured. Inadequate braking caused the train pulled by a class X c (old) locomotive to get out of control on the downhill slope and derailed at a speed of 70 km / h. Because of the poor superstructure , only 50 km / h were permitted on this section.
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- Steglitz ( German Reich ) - personal accident
- September 2, 1883 - In Steglitz station , a crowd of about 300 people trying to catch a train to Berlin got out of control. The travelers "stormed" the train over the track in the opposite direction, on which an express train to Magdeburg was arriving at the same time . 39 deaths were the result. The accident accelerated the construction of platform tunnels on Prussian main lines .
- Chatsworth ( Illinois , United States ) - Bridge collapse
- August 10, 1887 - A timber truss bridge previously damaged by fire collapsed when it was on a Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad (TP&W) train that was traveling from Peoria to Niagara Falls with 700 travelers . The number of deaths was between 81 and 85 dead, the information on the number of injuries fluctuated between 169 and 372.
- Mud Run ( Pennsylvania , United States ) - rear-end collision after ignoring the signal
- October 10, 1888 - The locomotive crew of a train ran over a signal that required a "stop" and hit another train, which was also waiting in front of a signal. The last three cars of the train in front were pushed into one another. 66 people died and 50 were injured.
- Borki ( Russia ) - Derailment of the court train
- October 17th Jul. / October 29, 1888 greg. - The court train of Tsar Alexander III pulled by two locomotives . derailed on the way from Crimea to St. Petersburg near Borki south of Kharkov . 23 travelers died.
- Armagh (Northern Ireland, UK ) - Runaway passenger cars
- June 12, 1889 - A special train from Armagh to Warrenpoint stopped near the end of an incline. When trying to split the train up the slope, ten cars escaped and encountered the following plan train. 81 dead and 260 injured, many of them children, were the result.
- As a consequence of this catastrophe, the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed a law that made automatic braking, driving in space, train notification procedures and signal-dependent turnouts mandatory.
1891-1900
- Münchenstein ( Switzerland ) - Collapse of the railway bridge
- June 14, 1891 - The railway bridge of the Jura Railway over the Birs below the village of Münchenstein collapsed under a special train coming from Basel . 78 people were killed and 171 injured.
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Thompson ( Connecticut , United States ) - pileup of four trains to dispatcher error
- December 4, 1891 - On a double-track line, two freight trains were involved in a head-on collision due to a dispatcher mistake, the trains derailed and also blocked the route on the track in the opposite direction. In a few minutes, the Long Island & Eastern States Express from New York City to Boston and then the Norwich Steamboat Express from New London to Boston drove into it . All four locomotives, a sleeping car , a baggage car and around 450 m of track were destroyed. Except for two railroad workers on one of the locomotives, surprisingly no deaths occurred, but several hundred were injured. This was one of the few railroad accidents in which four trains were involved.
- Paris ( France ) - Train ran over the end of the track in the terminus
- October 22, 1895 - At 3:55 p.m., a train from Granville drove over the end of the Gare Montparnasse terminus in Paris , drove over the platform and smashed through the glass wall of the station until the locomotive was on the street one floor below in front of the station came to a stop. A newspaper seller was killed and six people injured. The driver had braked the train too late. The photo of the crashed locomotive became world famous.
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Victoria ( British Columbia United Kingdom ) - Bridge collapse due to overloaded train
- May 26, 1896 - Under a tram of the Consolidated Electric Railway Company overcrowded with 143 passengers , the Point Ellice Bridge fell into the Gorge River because of its excessive weight. 55 people were killed.
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Atlantic City ( New Jersey , United States ) - cross drive to dispatcher error
- July 30, 1896 - The accident occurred on a level with any crossing of a railway line of the West Jersey Railroad a railroad line of the Reading Railroad west of Atlantic City. The dispatcher gave "free travel" for a second train before the first had passed the intersection. 50 dead and 60 injured were the result.
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- Crush ( Texas , United States ) - boiler explosion during railroad spectacle
- September 15, 1896 - An elaborately planned and staged head-on collision of two freight trains as a public event of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad . With the boiler explosions of both locomotives, the event got out of control. Flying debris killed three spectators and injured others.
- Bolivar (Texas, United States ) - Natural Disaster
- September 8, 1900 - A train got into a hurricane and was completely destroyed in the process. 85 people die.
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- Mühlheim am Main ( German Reich ) - rear-end collision
- November 8, 1900 - A passenger train ran into an express train between the stations of Mühlheim am Main and Offenbach am Main , the rubble caught fire, ignited by the gas in the lighting. 12 dead and 4 injured were the result. The accident accelerated the introduction of electric lights in passenger coaches.
20th century
1901-1910
- Liverpool (England, UK ) - Fire after a short circuit
- On December 22, 1901 , the engine of an electric multiple unit caught fire in the access tunnel to the underground Liverpool-Dingle station, the train stopped in the tunnel and then went up in flames. In this first serious accident involving the operation of an electric train, six people died and many were injured.
- Mangapatnan ( British India ) - natural disaster
- September 11, 1902 - After a bridge pillar was washed away and a bridge collapsed, the express train from Chennai (then: Madras) to Mumbai (then: Bombay) drove into the gap. Seven of the eight cars crashed. 62 people died.
- Paris ( France ) - Panic after a metro train fire
- On August 10, 1903 , an attempt was made to pull a burning metro train on metro line 2 through the tunnel. This failed and the evacuation of a following train, which was held up in Couronnes station , did not go properly because many of the disgruntled passengers refused to get off. When the fire on the train in front damaged the power line, which also supplied the lighting at Couronnes station and at the same time thick smoke oozed from the burning train from the tunnel, panic broke out. A total of 84 people were killed.
- Connellsville, Pennsylvania, United States - Derailed due to lost cargo
- On 23 December 1903 the derailed Duquesne Limited of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad when he drove into tree trunks that had previously lost a freight train that had driven on the track the opposite direction. 64 people died, 68 were injured.
- Eden, Colorado, United States - Flash flood sweeps train
- On August 7, 1904 , a bridge and a train passing over it on the Missouri Pacific Railroad north of Pueblo were washed into a wadi by a flash flood . 111 people were killed.
- New Market, Tennessee, United States - Head-on collision due to disregarded written drive order
- The collision on September 24, 1904 - depending on the source - resulted in between 56 and 113 fatalities and between 106 and 125 injured.
- Spremberg ( German Reich ) - frontal collision
- August 7, 1905 - After an error of drunken dispatcher came the collision of the D 113 Berlin - Hirschberg with the reunification D 112 Hirschberg Berlin on single-track. 19 people died and 40 were seriously injured. The accident was the worst in a series of alcohol-related accidents. In the same year, alcohol consumption on duty was banned and it was ensured that non-alcoholic drinks were available at the stations.
- Regenstauf ( German Reich ) - rear-end collision
- On May 1, 1906 , the Munich – Berlin night train (D 21) was involved in a rear-end collision near Regenstauf . Due to a wrongly set point, he ran into a freight train that he was supposed to overtake. A prominent passenger on the train was Thomas Mann , who dealt with the events in the story The Railway Accident - published in 1909.
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Atlantic City (New Jersey, United States ) - Derailment on a drawbridge
- On October 28, 1906, an electric multiple unit derailed due to a technical fault on a drawbridge in front of the Atlantic City train station. The train fell off the bridge. 53 people drowned, also because all the doors of the wagons were locked.
- Terra Cotta (Washington, DC, United States ) - rear-end collision
- On December 30, 1906 , at the Terra Cotta stop on the outskirts of Washington, DC , an empty train drove into a halting passenger train, whose wooden wagons were smashed by the empty train's locomotive. 53 deaths were the result. The causes were poor visibility, signaling on the route that changed depending on the time of day, a signal that had to be driven over, and staff were overtired. As a result of the accident, the Interstate Commerce Commission banned the use of wooden passenger cars.
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Québec (Province of Québec , United Kingdom ) - Static error leads to the collapse of the Québec Bridge
- August 29, 1907 - The bridge collapsed during construction. 75 workers die. The second attempt to build the bridge also resulted in a serious accident: on September 11, 1916, the prefabricated central section fell into the river. This time 13 people die.
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Encarnación de Díaz ( Jalisco , Mexico ) - Driver's mistake
- September 19, 1907 - Head-on collision between an express train and a freight train because the freight train did not stop on the siding for the train crossing. At least 63 people died.
- Oudh & Rohilkhand State Railway ( British India ) - head-on collision on a single-track line
- 1908 - 79 people died, 119 were injured in addition.
- Ghaziabad ( British India ) - Failure of the train detection system
- May 6, 1908 - After the train detection system failed, two passenger trains collided head-on on a single-track line and caught fire.
- Züllichau ( German Empire ) - collision between train and motor vehicle
- On October 28, 1909 , a motor vehicle and a freight train collided at an unrestricted level crossing on the Züllichau – Wollstein line (today: Sulechów - Wolsztyn ) . There were four dead. This was the earliest collision between a motor vehicle and a train with fatalities documented in the literature.
- Wellington (Washington, United States ) - Avalanche Accident
- On March 1, 1910 , 96 people died in an avalanche in Wellington (Washington) in the Cascade Mountains . Two trains of the Great Northern Railway were held there by heavy snowfall because the route was impassable. A sudden change in the weather triggered a snow avalanche, which tore the trains parked in the station into the Tye River , which flows 50 meters below .
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- Rogers Pass (British Columbia, Canada ) - avalanche accident
- On March 4, 1910 , when an avalanche set off at Rogers Pass, 62 railway workers died while they were clearing the Canadian Pacific Railway over Rogers Pass from the snow of a previous avalanche. As a result, the railway company pushed the construction of the Connaught tunnel , which drives under the pass.
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- Spring Creek Township, Iowa, United States - Derailment for unknown cause
- On March 21, 1910 derailed a train here. Two wooden passenger carriages for the train that was being pushed were smashed between the pulling and pushing locomotives and by steel carriages. 52 people died - exclusively in the wooden wagons.
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Pin Lok ( China ) - head-on collision
- December 1910 - The locomotive driver of a freight train drove from the Pin Lok station onto the Beijing – Wuhan railway line , which, however, had not yet been released for him and on which a passenger train was coming towards him. 31 people died in the following collision, 138 were injured. This was the worst railway accident in China to date.
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1911-1920
- Müllheim ( German Reich ) - Derailment due to excessive speed caused by alcohol in a construction site
- July 17, 1911 - The engine driver of the D 9 coming from Milan drove through a slow speed area set up due to a construction site in the Müllheim (Baden) station instead of 20 km / h at 100 km / h because he had previously drunk large quantities of wine and beer. The train derailed. 14 dead and 32, some seriously injured, were the result. In the subsequent criminal proceedings , the first question was whether and, if so, how alcohol consumption can limit the ability to react and reduce the ability to drive, which was completely new territory at the time.
- San Antonio (Texas, United States ) - Kettle Blast
- On March 18, 1912 , 28 people died (40 were also injured) when the boiler of a 1C locomotive exploded during a test. The cause has never been clarified. This boiler bang from a locomotive was the one with the highest number of victims.
- Ephesus ( Ottoman Empire ) accident
- October 22, 1912 - The extremely contradicting statements about the accident do not clearly show how the accident happened. More than 200 soldiers on a military transport were killed.
- Erzsébetváros ( Hungary ) - rear-end collision due to neglected safety measures
- February 5, 1913 - At Erzsébetváros (today Dumbrăveni ) the express train 601 of the Hungarian State Railways coming from Bucharest hit an unscheduled stopping freight train and destroyed tank cars that were filled with petroleum , which immediately caught fire. The result was three deaths. Prince Eitel Friedrich von Prussia , second son of Kaiser Wilhelm II , traveling back to Berlin in the last carriage of the express train , was unharmed.
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- Drama ( Bulgaria ) - clutch crack
- On May 11, 1913 , 25 wagons of a military train escaped near Drama (today: Greece) and collided with 28 other wagons also manned by military. 150 people died and 200 were also injured.
- Costesti ( Romania ) - Clash
- On December 6, 1913 , 100 people died in a collision.
- Sarry ( France ) - Crash after a bridge was blown
- September 17, 1914 - The French military blew up a bridge over the Marne near Sarry without notifying the responsible railway workers or securing the route themselves. A hospital train crashed into the gap. 57 people were killed.
- Kalisz ( Russia ) - clash
- December 1914 - A German troop train collided with a German hospital train in German-occupied Kalisz. 400 people died and 500 were injured.
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- Guadalajara ( Mexico ) - Derailment
- January 24, 1915 - A train went out of control on a downward slope near Guadalajara . He falls into a ravine, killing more than 600 people.
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- Montemorelos ( Mexico ) - Accident
- May 6, 1915 - In the course of the Mexican Revolution , on May 6, 1915, a transport train for troops of the revolutionary leader and President Venustiano Carranza crashed near Montemorelos . About 300 people were killed.
- Quintinshill (Scotland, UK ) - Triple crash that destroyed five trains
- May 22, 1915 - In the Quintinshill depot, there was a head-on collision between a local train, which had been temporarily placed on the opposite track for overtaking by two express trains, and a military train. The local train had to switch to the track in the opposite direction because the passing tracks were needed for freight trains. He was forgotten by the signal box worker, who let a troop train pull into the track. After the head-on collision, the rubble also blocked the track in the opposite direction, on which the second express train entered. The wreckage caught fire due to escaping gas from the gas lighting and also ignited the two freight trains that were waiting on the overtaking tracks. 230 people were killed, 246 injured and five trains destroyed. To date, it is the most momentous railway accident in Great Britain.
- Boston ( United States ) - Fall from an open drawbridge
- November 7, 1916 - A busy streetcar train crashed into the Fort Point Channel in Boston , Massachusetts , due to driver inattentiveness and inadequate technical safeguards , killing around 50 passengers. Only nine people from the vehicle survived. This was one of the worst tram accidents in the world.
- Herceghalom ( Hungary ) - flank drive
- December 1, 1916 - In the train station of Herceghalom , Hungary , met a train with guests from the funeral of the late Emperor Franz Joseph I. from Vienna to Budapest drove back, and a train in the opposite direction with destination Graz together. 69 people died.
- Ciurea ( Romania ) - Derailment due to excessive speed
- January 13, 1917 - A train, completely overstaffed with refugees and injured soldiers, derailed after a brake failure at the entry point, after entering Ciurea station from a 15 km long slope at completely excessive speed. Both locomotives and 24 wagons wedged together, caught fire and burned out. The accident claimed - depending on the source - between 600 and 1000 deaths.
- Nannhofen ( German Empire ) - Flank drive
- On April 17, 1917 , the D 53 Ulm - Munich drove in the Nannhofen station with snow flurries around 10 p.m. in the shunting express freight train carrying 926 passengers. 30 people died, 80 were mostly seriously injured. The reason was that the Royal Bavarian State Railways still used white instead of a green light for the night signal of the journey term, the train driver could not perceive the red night signal of the stop signal due to poor visibility and the lighting of the crossing train erroneously as white light, the " Drive free ”indicated, perceived.
- Rudnik nad Sanem ( Austria ) - explosion
- On July 17, 1917 , an ammunition train of the Austro-Hungarian military parked in the station in Rudnik nad Sanem exploded . 59 people died.
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Petrograd – Moscow railway line ( Russian Republic ) - collision
- On August 13, 1917 , a passenger and freight train collided. 60 people died, 150 were also injured.
- Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne ( France ) - Derailment on a slope
- December 12, 1917 - On the slope of the north ramp of the Mont-Cenis-Bahn a heavy military train with almost 1000 soldiers got out of control on Christmas vacation because it was only hauled by one locomotive and the braking force was insufficient. Shortly before the Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne train station, the train derailed at completely excessive speed in a cut in the terrain and the rubble immediately caught fire. The number of dead is estimated at 700. The accident is still considered to be the one caused by railway operations with the highest number of fatalities worldwide.
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Changsha ( Republic of China ) - head-on collision
- January 7, 1918 - Fugitive soldiers force the departure of a train against a stop signal in a single-track line on which a train is traveling in the opposite direction. 300 people died.
- Hammond, United States - The engine driver fell asleep in a rear-end collision
- June 22, 1918 - Rear-end collision near Hammond , Indiana , in which an empty train, whose driver had fallen asleep, crashed into the end of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus train that had stopped unexpectedly . 86 dead and 127 injured were the result.
- Nashville, Tennessee, United States - Head-on collision following faults in both train crew and a signal box
- July 9, 1918 - Due to two errors, a train entered a single-track section before the oncoming train left it. 101 people were killed and 171 injured. The high number of deaths was due, among other things, to wooden coaches that were completely smashed. This accident is the worst in the history of the US railroad.
- Getå ( Sweden ) - landslide
- October 1, 1918 - Sweden's worst railway accident was caused by a natural disaster. A train derailed due to a landslide in Getå (now part of Norrköping ), killing at least 42 passengers and injuring as many.
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Craiova ( Romania ) - derailment
- October 9, 1918 - An express train derailed because the line was submerged after a downpour. About 100 people are said to have died.
- New York ( United States ) - Derailment in the tunnel due to excessive speed
- November 1, 1918 - A Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT) train entered what is now the Prospect Park subway station on the New York subway in Flatbush , Brooklyn , making a tight S-curve at five times the speed limit. Two cars were carried out of the curve and smashed against the wall of the tunnel. The main cause of the accident was the inadequate qualification of the driver deployed as an alternative due to a strike. At least 93 people were killed and over 100 others were injured.
- Rákoš ( Hungary ) - broken axle
- November 4, 1918 - An axle broke on a wagon of a military train while driving through the Rákoš station (today: Slovakia ). The car and two others overturned. While the front part of the train braked, the rear part crashed into the front. Around 60 soldiers were killed and another 180 injured.
- Sternthal ( Austria ) - derailment
- Presumably due to a broken axle , a return train, mostly made up of Hungarian soldiers, derailed on the night of November 5th to 6th, 1918 between Sternthal and Pettau , killing at least 63 people and injuring at least 121 others.
- Hamont ( Belgium ) - Explosion of an ammunition transport
- On November 19, 1918 , during the retreat of the German army after the defeat in World War I, an ammunition transport train exploded in Hamont amidst hospital trains and a second ammunition transport. Depending on the source, 1007 or 1750 deaths.
- Lothiers (?) ( France ) - collision
- December 7, 1918 - A tourist train collided with a second train. At least one of the two trains belonged to the Chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans . 68 people died, 151 were also injured.
- Firozabad, British India - Head-on collision between a passenger and a freight train
- June 19, 1919 - The rubble caught fire. 100 to 300 people died. The source is unclear as to the cause.
- Mexico ( Mexico ) derailment
- October 5, 1919 - The train was en route from Laredo , Texas , USA , to Mexico City . 60 people died.
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Kranowitz ( German Reich ) - Flank drive and fire
- On October 24, 1919 , the locomotive of the P 1002 passenger train coming from Czechoslovakia drove into the flank of a freight train that had driven too far in the German border station at Kranowitz on the Opava - Ratibor route . A fire that broke out, fed by smuggled alcohol, quickly spread on the train. The information on the accident victims varies considerably: the number of deaths between 25 and 60 and the number of injuries between 80 and 130.
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- Moradabad ( British India ) - Collision between an express train and a freight train
- April 28, 1920 - 150 people died when an express train crashed into a freight train and some passenger cars caught fire.
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Bridgetown ( Western Australia , Australia ) - derailment
- July 5, 1920 - Heavy rains caused the superstructure of a railway line to be softened by a special train on which Edward , Prince of Wales , was traveling on his tour of the British Empire . The saloon carriage in which the prince was traveling and a carriage in front derailed, and the prince's carriage overturned. He was uninjured, but had to leave the vehicle through a window.
- Pogranichnava ( Soviet Russia ) - derailment
- October 1920 - A mail train from Vladivostok to Harbin derailed. 100 people are said to have died.
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- Lufany ( Romania ) - Clash
- October 27, 1920 - After an operating error, two passenger trains collided in Transylvania. 50 people died and more than 200 were injured.
1921-1930
- Luga ( Soviet Russia ) - explosion
- January 1921 - Gasoline carried on a mixed train exploded, setting the train on fire. 68 people died.
- Abermule (Wales, United Kingdom ) - Head-on collision between two passenger trains
- January 21, 1921 - Shortly after 12 noon, the Aberystwyth - Manchester express train collided with a passenger train from Whitchurch near Abermule in Wales . As a result, 17 people died and around 20 were injured. The cause of the accident was gross negligence on the part of the railway workers in Abermule and the staff who drove the passenger train. The railway accident at Abermule served in the following years as a teaching example that the tried and tested and widespread electric tablet system can also become ineffective due to negligence and a lack of communication and therefore remained in the public consciousness to this day.
- Tawwi / Peinzalok ( British India ) (Myanmar) - Head -on collision between an express train and a freight train
- July 25, 1921 - 104 people died and 48 were injured.
- Without exact location ( British India ) - death by suffocation
- November 19, 1921 - 64 people suffocated in a prisoner transport car because the ventilation was blocked by paint.
- Oyashirazu ( Japan ) - avalanche accident
- February 3, 1922 - After heavy snowfall, four passenger cars of a train were smashed by an avalanche between the railway stations in Oyashirazu and Ome. 90 people died and 42 were injured.
- Vinty-Leanca (between Ploieşti and Buzău , Romania ) - collision after a shunter's mistake
- On July 2, 1923 , 63 people died when an express train collided with a stationary freight train.
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Kreiensen ( German Reich ) - rear-end collision
- On July 31, 1923 , the D 88 Hamburg – Munich drove on its unscheduled stop because of a machine failure in the station. 48 people were killed in the accident and 39 others were injured. The later Nobel Prize laureate Gerhard Domagk escaped the accident by accident: he had left the priority station in the train station shortly before the collision.
- Nebukawa ( Japan ) - landslide
- September 1, 1923 - A landslide - triggered by the Great Kanto earthquake - hit Nebukawa station and a train arriving there. 112 travelers died and 13 were injured. This was only one of twelve railway accidents that caused this earthquake.
- Omsk ( Soviet Union ) - derailment
- September 8, 1923 - An express train derailed. 82 people died, 150 were also injured.
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- Bellinzona ( Switzerland ) - clash
- On April 23, 1924 , express trains 70 and 51b collided at Bellinzona station . The cause was the accumulation of four errors made by different railway workers in connection with train protection. A German passenger car with gas lighting that was running on one of the trains caught fire. 15 people died and many more were injured. The former German Vice Chancellor and Reich Minister Karl Helfferich was among the dead . As a result of the accident, cars with gas lighting were banned in Switzerland and the development of the Integra-Signum train control system was initiated.
- Montgomery, British India - Clash
- August 29, 1924 - 107 people died and 104 were injured when two passenger trains collided after a mistake by the dispatcher. The current name of the city of the accident site is Sahiwal in Pakistan.
- San José ( Costa Rica ) - Derailment
- March 14, 1926 - The overcrowded train derailed in the curve just before the bridge over the Río Virilla in Costa Rica because of an inadequately paved rail. A car fell more than 60 meters. 248 people died and 93 were injured.
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Hankow ( Republic of China ) - derailment
- May 12, 1926 - Numerous travelers rode on the wagons when a freight train on the way from Beijing to Hankow derailed. More than 50 people died.
- Rickentunnel ( Switzerland ) - tunnel accident
- October 4, 1926 - In the 8.6 km long Rickentunnel between Wattwil and Kaltbrunn , a freight train came to a standstill due to insufficient steam generation. The reason was the poor quality of the briquettes that were used as heating material for the steam locomotive and the lack of ventilation in the tunnel. The six officers on the train suffocated from carbon monoxide , as did three railway workers from the first rescue team. The line was electrified within half a year.
- Barcelona ( Spain ) - tram accident
- June 7, 1926 - The architect Antoni Gaudí was run over by a tram on his way to the construction site of the Sagrada Família and died three days later from the consequences of the accident.
- Buir ( German Empire ) - Derailment of an express train
- August 25, 1929 - The D 23 Paris Gare du Nord - Warsaw derailed when entering the Buir station on the Cologne – Aachen railway line when it drove over the branching line of a switch at 100 km / h instead of the permitted 50 . The engine driver was not correctly informed about the unscheduled entry into a passing track and the corresponding signal was difficult to recognize. 13 travelers were killed and 40 injured. As a result of the accident, the lists of temporary speed limits (La) and three-aspect distant signals were introduced.
Reza Shah Pahlavi and the then Crown Prince and later Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi at the window of a saloon car
- Gorgor ( Iran ) - construction site accident
- January 10, 1930 - At the end of 1929 the construction of the Trans-Iranian Railway had progressed so far that Reza Shah Pahlavi wanted to use the completed section. On the way back from Bandar Shahpur to Dezful, the imperial saloon carriage derailed several times. The cause was the track bed softened by persistent and heavy rainfall. The trip ended prematurely in Ahwaz , where the Shah was stuck until January 25th. The Persian government then threw the American construction company Henry Ulen & Company out of the project and continued it on its own.
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Kossino ( Soviet Union ) - fuse failure
- January 2, 1932 - Multiple collisions after safety failures. 68 people died and 130 were injured.
- Turenne (Algeria) ( France ) - crash
- September 14, 1932 - A railway embankment softened by the rain gives way under a train driving over it, which plunges 72 meters into the depth. 120 people died, 150 were also injured.
- Lucerne ( Switzerland ) - clash
- On December 13, 1932 , the Lucerne – Meggen regional train collided with the Stuttgart – Zurich – Lucerne international express train in the Gütschtunnel near Lucerne. Six people were killed and over ten people injured. This accident resulted in the introduction of the Integra Signum train control system across Switzerland .
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Siping ( Manchukuo ) - rear-end collision
- March 17, 1933 - A freight train ran into a passenger train. 50 people died and 70 were also injured. Siping was then called Ssupingkai . (See: Siping Railway Accident )
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Jiangxi ( China ) - unknown
- approx. August 20, 1933 - A train carrying a training division of the Chinese army crashed into a river between Nanchang and Lushan for unknown reasons . 200 soldiers died.
- Lagny ( France ) - rear-end collision
- December 23, 1933 - Of two express trains of the Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Est , both of which were traveling east from Paris Gare de l'Est , the one in front had to slow down because of a distant signal that signaled “Waiting for stop”. The engine driver of the following train overlooked the first covering signal and his locomotive smashed the last five wagons with wooden car bodies of the preceding train. 204 people died in the accident and 120 were injured. This was one of the most lossy railway accidents in peacetime.
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San Salvador ( El Salvador ) - explosion
- March 16, 1934 - Explosion of dynamite carried on a train. 250 people died and around 1,000 were injured.
- Tadakuma ( Japan ) - Technical failure
- April 16, 1936 - The cable of a funicular railway ruptured and the emergency brakes failed. 52 people died, 28 were injured and two people went missing.
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Karymskoye ( Soviet Union ) - dispatcher error
- June 22, 1936 - A train was allowed to travel on a section of the route that was still occupied. There was a rear-end collision in which 51 people died and 52 were also injured (see: here ).
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Tengchatang ( China ) - shunting accident
- October 22, 1936 - Cars parked on an incline roll down while a train was traveling uphill without clearance. 60 people die and 100 are injured.
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Shitan ( China ) - explosion
- January 17, 1937 - After an explosion in a passenger car, the last carriages of a moving Kowloon-Canton Railway train caught fire. 112 people died.
- Bihta ( India ) - derailment
- July 16, 1937 - The Delhi - Calcutta express train derailed near Bihta, Bihar , India . 119 people died.
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Alanís ( Spain ) - Clash
- November 19, 1937 - At least 56 people died in a failed train crossing at Alanís station and more than 150 were injured.
- Shinchow ( China ) - derailment
- January 3, 1938 - A train from Canton (today: Guangzhou ) to Hankow (today: Wuhan ) derailed when the superstructure gave way. More than 100 dead and injured were the result.
- Madrid ( Spain ) - explosion
- January 10, 1938 - A large amount of ammunition stored in a subway tunnel of the Madrid Metro during the Spanish Civil War exploded for an unknown reason. Around 100 people are said to have died, the number of injuries was probably far higher.
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Kowloon-Canton Railway ( China ) - Maybe arson
- January 16, 1938 - Three cars on an express train burned out. 87 people died and 30 were also injured. (See: here )
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Milokang ( China ) - Unknown cause
- May 16, 1938 - A head-on collision between a passenger train traveling from Wuhan to Canton near Milokang, Hunan , with a freight train traveling in the opposite direction, claimed more than 100 lives.
- Martorell ( Spain ) - Head-on collision
- September 25, 1938 - Due to a signal defect and poor visibility, two trains collided head- on at Martorell in a curve. 65 deaths were the result.
- Etulia ( Romania ) - Clash
- December 24, 1938 - After a dispatcher error , two passenger trains collided near Etulia in what is now the Republic of Moldova . 93 people were killed, 147 injured.
- Barcelona ( Spain ) - collision of three trains
- February 11, 1939 - After a first collision, a group of wagons escaped down a slope and collided head-on with a third train. The Spanish Civil War was in its final phase. The sources on the process and the number of victims are correspondingly poor: 32 to 53 people died, 100 to 160 were injured.
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Peñaranda de Bracamonte ( Spain ) - Explosion disaster
- July 9, 1939 - Perhaps caused by a hot runner , explosives carried on a freight train exploded as the train entered the Peñaranda de Bracamonte station, Salamanca province , just as the train passed a freight hall, which was also used to store explosives and ammunition. More than 100 people died and 1,500 others were injured.
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- Genthin ( German Reich ) - rear-end collision
- December 22nd, 1939 - After the engine driver of the D 180 had run over the "Halt" block signal of the Kade block during foggy weather, the D 180 drove from Berlin Potsdamer Bahnhof to Neunkirchen (Saar) Hauptbahnhof on the D 10 from Berlin Potsdamer Bahnhof to Cologne Main station , which had stopped at Genthin station due to a misunderstanding, at about 90 km / h. 186 dead and 453 injured were to be mourned. In terms of the number of fatalities, it is the most momentous railway accident in Germany to date.
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- Markdorf ( German Reich ) frontal collision
- December 22, 1939 - The frontal collision of a freight train and a heavily occupied passenger train on the single- track Stahringen – Friedrichshafen railway resulted in 101 deaths and 47 injuries. The dispatchers at the neighboring Markdorf and Kluftern stations had both allowed a train to run into the section of the route without complying with the prescribed train notification procedure.
- Osaka ( Japan ) - Derailment and fire
- January 29, 1940 - A suburban train that had had an accident caught fire at the Ajikawaguchi station in Osaka . 190 travelers were killed. This was the highest fatal train accident in Japan.
- Morgny ( France ) - clash
- May 18, 1940 - 53 people died and 128 were injured.
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Iguala ( Mexico ) - derailment
- December 1940 - A construction train derailed in a curve and crashed. 71 people died.
1941-1950
- Isenbüttel-Gifhorn ( German Empire ) - rear-end collision
- January 22, 1941 - A freight train drove into the Isenbüttel - Gifhorn station (today: Gifhorn station) on an unscheduled, standing train of the Wehrmacht with around 1000 Belgian prisoners of war. 122 people were killed and 80 seriously injured.
- Aboshi ( Japan ) - rear-end collision
- September 16, 1941 - A local train that had stopped at Aboshi station in Himeji ( Hyōgo prefecture in Japan ) was hit by an express train traveling at 85 km / h. At least 65 dead and 110 injured were the result.
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Laventie ( France ) - clash
- December 28, 1941 - Two trains collided between Laventie and La Gorgue on the Nantes – La Roche-sur-Yon railway . 56 people died and 40 were also injured.
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Hazebrouck ( France ) - No details
- December 30, 1941 - 50 people died in a railway accident.
- Akola, British India - Clash
- June 3, 1943 - An express train from Bombay (today: Mumbai ) to Calcutta (today: Kolkata) collided with a freight train, two passenger cars and the dining car being smashed. 50 people died and 100 were also injured.
- Frankford Junction Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, United States ) - Hot runner with subsequent derailment
- September 6, 1943 - 79 people died and over 117 were injured, some seriously, when the axle of a passenger car broke at high speed following a hot runner on the Pennsylvania Railroad's Congressional Limited in the Philadelphia area . The train derailed and two cars rammed a signal bridge .
- Tsuchiura ( Japan ) - Double rear-end collision
- October 29, 1943 - Due to defective train protection systems in Tsuchiura station on the Jōban line , a group of freight cars got onto the through track while shunting and were rammed by a second freight train. A passenger train drove into the rubble. 57 people died and 77 were injured.
- Rennert (North Carolina, United States ) - Derailment and collision
- December 16, 1943 - Two derailed wagons of the Taniami Champion from New York City to Florida after a broken rail near Rennert , North Carolina , protruded into the clearance gauge of the track in the opposite direction. Due to insufficient securing of this second track, the counter-train drove into the derailed wagons and derailed itself. 72 dead and 187 injured were the result.
- Torre del Bierzo ( Spain ) - Brake failure
- January 3, 1944 - The night express train from Madrid to A Coruña failed the brakes and crashed into a shunting train in a tunnel near the Torre del Bierzo station . The wooden passenger coaches were smashed and caught fire from escaping lighting gas. A freight train traveling uphill and loaded with coal drove into the rubble. The officially named number of deaths despite press censorship was 78. Today's estimates indicate 200 to 250 deaths. But it could have been more than 500.
- Müncheberg ( German Reich ) - rear-end collision
- January 18, 1944 - After a mistake by the dispatcher, the D 52 crashed into a stationary passenger train. 56 people died, 159 were also injured.
- Porta Westfalica ( German Empire ) - rear-end collision between two express trains
- January 20, 1944 - The DmW 103 from Aachen to Berlin drove east of the Porta train station (since 1984: Porta Westfalica ) due to a dispatcher error on the D 3 from Cologne to Berlin, which had come to a halt due to an emergency braking . 79 people died, 64 were injured - some seriously.
- Balvano ( Italy ) - Carbon monoxide poisoning
- March 3, 1944 - Due to the availability of coal with a low calorific value due to the war, a freight train traveling uphill on the Battipaglia – Metaponto railway line stopped in the 1.7 km long Armi Tunnel, which has a gradient of 14 ‰. Around 650 fare dodgers traveled with the freight train, which mainly consisted of unloaded flat wagons. Several hundred of them and the train crew (the numbers vary between 402 and 549 dead) suffocated from carbon monoxide poisoning .
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Craiova ( Romania ) - Clash
- November 2, 1944 - A military train collides with a freight train. 60 people died and 100 were also injured.
- Wiesau ( German Empire ) - Two trains collide
- November 23, 1944 - The 6395 freight train loaded with 400 prisoners from the Flossenbürg concentration camp collided with another train near Wiesau . The prisoners were to be brought to the Leitmeritz satellite camp for forced labor in a secret armaments factory ( U-Verlagerung Richard der Elsabe AG). Against the cold, the floors of the prisoners' freight wagons were covered with straw and there were cannon ovens in the wagons - a deadly trap for the overturning wagons that were tightly locked from the outside. 52 prisoners, four SS guards and a member of the Reichsbahn (stoker) were killed and there were numerous seriously injured. So far no concentration camp inmate is known from the transport who survived the end of the war and was able to report on the accident. It was not until 2012 that the train's secret transport list was discovered after almost 70 years.
- Barwałd Średni ( German Empire ) - Clash
- November 24, 1944 - 130 people died when a passenger train from Zakopane to Krakow collided with a freight train.
- Yokohama ( Japan ) - rear-end collision
- December 26, 1944 - A suburban train crashed into another, standing suburban train on the Keikyu Line at Tsurumi Station . At least 53 people died and 94 were injured.
- Bagley (Utah, United States ) - Rear-end collision after disregarding signals
- December 31, 1944 - 50 people died and 79 were injured when the train to the Pacific Limited hit the main train in thick fog .
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Saint-Valery-en-Caux ( France ) - buffer stop crossing
- January 17, 1945 - 84 people died and 226 were injured.
- Cazadero ( Mexico ) - Clash
- February 1, 1945 - In Cazadero, Querétaro state , a train ran into a stopping train. Both brought visitors to a festival. 127 people died.
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- Orvieto ( Italy ) - Clash and major fire
- June 13, 1945 - A passenger train ran into a freight train that was carrying fuel. Both trains caught fire. About 70 people died.
- Aßling ( Germany ) - rear-end collision
- July 16, 1945 - On the Munich – Rosenheim railway line between the stations of Aßling (Upper Bavaria) and Grafing Bahnhof, a train was stuck due to engine damage, with which prisoners of war were returning to the Rhineland and Westphalia. A freight train of the US occupation forces, which was transporting tanks, crashed into the stationary train due to a dispatcher error. The death toll varies between 102 and 110, depending on the source.
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Saint-Fons ( France ) - Clash
- July 27, 1945 - A passenger train collided with a freight train loaded with ammunition. The following explosions not only destroyed numerous houses, but also the local gas works . About 150 people died.
- Yamagami Tunnel ( Japan ) - tunnel accident
- August 22, 1945 - In the 2nd Yamagami Tunnel on the Hisatsu Line , a train with demobilized soldiers stopped on an incline. To escape the smoke from the steam locomotives, many of the soldiers left the train. When he backed up in the single-track tunnel, 53 people were killed.
- Hachiōji ( Japan ) - head-on collision
- August 27, 1945 - Two trains collided head-on between Komiya and Hachiōji stations after a signal disruption and errors by the dispatcher on a bridge and crashed into the river. 105 people died and 67 were injured.
- Ōtsuki ( Japan ) - rear-end collision
- September 6, 1945 - At Sasago station in Ōtsuki in Yamanashi prefecture , a local train ran over a protective switch and rammed a rock face after a brake failure caused by the inexperienced locomotive driver . 60 dead and 90 injured were the result.
- Bhagauli ( British India ) - Head -on collision
- March 4, 1946 - The Dehra Dun Express and a freight train collided. 60 people died, 84 were also injured.
- Aracaju ( Brazil ) - derailment
- March 20, 1946 - A train carrying about 1,000 passengers derailed near Aracaju in the state of Sergipe . 185 dead and 300 injured were the result. This was the worst railway accident that ever occurred in Brazil .
- Shaochi Bridge ( China ) - Derailment and crash of a bridge
- May 30, 1946 - While driving on the bridge over a river, a train of the Canton-Hankow Railway coming from Canton derailed about 90 km south of Hengyang , in the province of Hunan , to which it was heading. The locomotive and four wagons fell into the river. At least 90 people were killed and 60 more were injured.
- Bhatni Junction ( British India ) - rear-end collision
- July 28, 1946 - One passenger train crashed into another. 223 people died.
- Konkoita ( Thailand ) - crash
- February 1, 1947 - One of Thailand's Transport Minister Momluang Kri Detchatiwong used motor trolley crashed into a gap on the Thailand-Burma Railway , which is a bridge collapse in Konkoita had left. The minister and one of his company were killed.
Derailed train on the Hachikō Line
- Hannō ( Japan ) - derailment
- February 25, 1947 - On the Hachikō Line , in Saitama Prefecture in Japan , between the Higashi- Hannō and Komagawa stations , about 30 km west of Tokyo , a passenger train derailed in a curve with a gradient of 20 ‰ due to excessive speed. Four cars overturned. 184 travelers were killed and 495 injured.
- Ludwigshafen ( Germany ) - tank car explosion
- July 28, 1948 - An overheated tank car exploded on the BASF site . 207 people were killed, 3,818 injured and 3,122 buildings damaged.
- Ankara ( Turkey ) - derailment
- October 28, 1948 - A special train with members of the People's Party who wanted to take part in the celebrations for the 25th anniversary of the Turkish Republic derailed shortly before Ankara. 100 people died, 150 were also injured.
- Sambhu ( India ) - buffer stop crossing
- November 24, 1948 - A train carrying Muslim refugees from Ambala Cantonment was directed onto a stump track in the Sambhu station , ran over a buffer stop and derailed. 171 people died and 300 were also injured.
- Midway / Langlaate ( South African Union ) - Double rear-end collision
- April 28, 1949 - A suburban train from Johannesburg stopped in front of a "stop" signal. Another train therefore had to stop behind him. A third train pulled up, pushing the second train into the front one. 70 people died, 166 were also injured.
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- Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki ( Poland ) - derailment
- October 22, 1949 - Is a newspaper duck .
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- Waterval Boven ( South African Union ) - derailment
- November 15, 1949 - A passenger train going to Mozambique derailed on a bridge near Waterval Boven , Transvaal . 55 people died and more than 100 were injured.
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Sirhind ( India ) - clash
- Jan 29, 1950 - Collision between an express train and a freight train. 63 people died.
- Tanguá ( Brazil ) - bridge collapse
- April 6, 1950 - After heavy rainfall, a bridge near Tanguá collapsed while a train was crossing it. 110 people died.
- Kew Gardens (New York, United States ) - rear-end collision
- Nov. 22, 1950 - Near Queens , New York City , a train caught a broken-down Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) train. 78 people died and 363 were injured.
1951-1960
- Woodbridge (New Jersey, United States ) - Derailment in the construction site
- Feb. 6, 1951 - An overcrowded commuter train carrying 1,100 passengers drove into a construction bypass in the Woodbridge , New Jersey community at far excessive speed. 85 dead and around 500 injured were the result. The cause was a mistake by the engine driver.
- Yokohama ( Japan ) - Fire after a short circuit
- April 24, 1951 - At Sakuragichō Station in Yokohama , a local railcar came into contact with a hanging live wire from the overhead line. The following short circuit led to the fire in the first car of the train. 106 people died and 92 were seriously injured.
- Nova Iguaçu ( Brazil ) - Collision of a railroad train with a tanker truck
- June 7, 1951 - A fully occupied commuter train met a tanker truck loaded with gasoline that had broken down on a level crossing. This exploded. 54 people died and 44 were injured.
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Székesfehérvár ( Hungary ) - head-on collision
- August 18, 1951 - The departure signal was given to an express train too early and it collided with another passenger train. More than 150 people died.
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- Piquet Carneiro ( Brazil ) - A railway train derailed due to excessive speed
- December 17, 1951 - At least 53 deaths were the result, also because of the inadequate rescue measures and the poor first aid at the accident site.
- Anchieta ( Brazil ) - Derailment and subsequent collision
- March 4, 1952 - Two old wooden wagons of a completely overcrowded passenger train derailed due to a broken rail and fell onto the track for traffic in the opposite direction. Immediately afterwards, a freight train running there drove into the two derailed wagons and smashed them. 119 dead and at least 250 injured were the result.
- Rzepin ( Poland ) - derailment
- Jul. 09, 1952 - A Soviet Army train derailed. 23 officers and 136 soldiers were killed.
- Drownino ( Soviet Union ) - Train collided with horse and derailed
- August 6, 1952 - When entering the Drownino station, a passenger train whose headlights had failed rammed a horse standing in the path at night. The locomotive derailed and the following cars pushed into one another, killing 109 people and injuring 211.
- Harrow & Wealdstone (England, UK ) - Triple collision and bridge collapse
- October 8, 1952 - An express train from Perth to Euston Station , London, ignored the "stop" entry signal for Harrow & Wealdstone Station and crashed into a commuter train standing on the platform. A few seconds later, the express train from London to Liverpool and Manchester drove into the rubble, also derailed and brought down a pedestrian overpass. 112 people died and 340 were injured in the worst railway accident in Britain in peacetime.
- Tangiwai ( New Zealand ) - Train crashes into river
- Dec. 24, 1953 - 151 people died in New Zealand when a bridge over the Whangaehu River was torn away by a lahar - a volcanic mud flow - caused by an eruption of Mount Ruapehu volcano . Shortly after the bridge collapsed, the Wellington-Auckland Express passed the spot, fell into the mud stream and was torn away. Many of the victims were never found.
- Šakvice ( Czechoslovakia ) - rear-end collision
- December 24, 1953 - On the Brno - Břeclav line , an express train ran into a stationary passenger train after the drunken locomotive crew had run over a signal indicating "stop".
- Braudabad, Pakistan - Clash
- January 21, 1954 - An express train, in which the then Pakistani Foreign Minister, Muhammad Zafrullah Khan , also traveled, ran into a derailed tank car between the Braudabad and Jhimpir stations, which was carrying a flammable liquid. The express train and freight train caught fire. 60 people died.
- Fabrica ( Philippines ) - Collision with escaped cars and bridge collapse
- Sep. 02 , 1954 - Escaped freight wagons met a freight train near the town of Fabrica in the north of the island of Negros , Philippines . It was crossing a bridge. The bridge collapsed, five wagons fell. 82 people died, many of the survivors were injured.
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- Kazipet ( India ) - bridge collapse
- Sep 28, 1954 - A bridge, the foundations of which had been washed away, collapsed when a train passed it. 139 people died and over 100 others were injured.
- Guadalajara ( Mexico ) - Derailment
- Apr. 03, 1955 - A passenger train derailed near Guadalajara and crashed into a ravine. About 300 people died.
- "San Bernando" ( Chile ) - rear-end collision
- July 17, 1955 - In thick fog, an express train hit a stopping train in front. 30 to 70 people were killed.
- Gomez Palacio ( Mexico ) - Collision between a train and two trucks
- September 23, 1955 - A train passed a level crossing, which was approached by two trucks on the road, each carrying 4.5 tons of dynamite. The clash left at least 65 dead and 100 injured.
- Mahbubnagar ( India ) - bridge collapse
- September 2, 1956 - A bridge, the piers and abutments of which had been washed away by heavy monsoon rains, collapsed under the train no. 565 of the Indian State Railways from Secunderabad to Dronachalam (today: Dhone ). 117 people died.
- Ariyalur ( India ) - derailment
- Nov. 23, 1956 - The Madras - Tuticorin express train derailed on a bridge near Ariyalur in Tamil Nadu after heavy rains which led to a track warping . At least 144 people died.
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Calcutta ( India ) - bridge accident
- July 24, 1957 - A train crashed near Calcutta. 59 people died and others were injured.
- Kendal, ( Jamaica ) - Derailment after brake failure
- September 1, 1957 - A misaligned shut-off valve on the brake system led to a brake failure, so that a completely overcrowded train was carried off the track while driving through a curve. 179 dead and around 700 injured were the result.
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- Sahiwal (Montgomery) ( Pakistan ) - Clash
- September 29, 1957 - An express train crashed into an oil train. At least 250 deaths were the result.
- Ibadan ( Nigeria ) - Track fault
- September 29, 1957 - A blocked passage caused a large amount of water to accumulate on a railway embankment, softening it and causing the track to warp. A passenger train passing over it derailed. 66 people died, 122 were also injured.
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- Istanbul ( Turkey ) - Head-on collision after dispatcher error
- October 21, 1957 - A Simplon Orient Express traveling westwards collided with an oncoming local train shortly after Istanbul . 89 people died and at least 100 were injured. The dispatcher had both trains enter the single-track line at the same time.
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Igatpuri ( India ) - accident
- Nov. 23, 1957 - At least 50 people died when the Calcutta Mail derailed at Igatpuri, and numerous others were injured.
- Lewisham (England, UK ) - rear-end collision and bridge collapse
- December 6, 1957 - A train ran over a signal showing "stop" in the fog and crashed into a train, which in turn was standing in front of a signal showing "stop". 90 people died and 173 were injured. The derailing vehicles destroyed the pillar of an overpass, which then collapsed.
- Mangueira (Rio de Janeiro), ( Brazil ) - head-on collision
- Mar. 04, 1958 - Due to a signal error, two commuter trains collided. 128 dead and 300 injured were the result.
- Minino ( Soviet Union ) - rear-end collision
- June 2, 1959 - Due to an incorrectly set signal, a heavily loaded freight train drove into the end of a stationary passenger train near the Minino station . The rear-end collision occurred next to a tank farm that caught fire and also spread to the train. 56 children died.
- São Paulo, ( Brazil ) - head-on collision
- June 5, 1959 - Two suburban trains collided head-on in Engenheiro Goulart station in São Paulo . 59 dead and 100 injured were the result.
- Leipzig ( German Democratic Republic ) - head-on collision between two trains
- May 15, 1960 - In the apron of Leipzig Central Station , an incoming express train collided head-on with an departing passenger train due to a wrongly set switch due to a power failure. At least 54 people died and 240 were injured.
- Stéblová ( Czechoslovakia ) - Two trains collide
- November 14, 1960 - When leaving the Stéblová station, a diesel multiple unit and a passenger train pulled by a steam locomotive collided in the fog. The trains began to burn. The accident killed 118 people and was the worst railway accident in the history of Czechoslovakia.
1961-1970
- Catanzaro ( Italy ) - derailment
- December 23, 1961 - On December 23, 1961 , on the Fiumarella Viaduct north of Catanzaro in Calabria, the trailer of a railcar derailed on a bridge and fell 40 meters. 71 dead and 28 injured were the result.
- Harmelen ( Netherlands ) - head-on collision between two trains
- January 8, 1962 - A locomotive-hauled express train from Utrecht to Rotterdam hit a railcar on its way from Rotterdam to Amsterdam near Woerden station at about 100 km / h. The train driver had not seen a distant signal indicating "Wait stop". 91 people died and 54 were injured in the accident.
- Trebbin ( German Democratic Republic ) - Slipped cargo led to derailment and damaged another train
- March 1, 1962 - From a military train the Red Army , the tanks of type T-55 transported soldiers and seven or eight boxcars, the Turmarretierung sparked a tank. The cannon barrel that swung out damaged an oncoming express train and the vehicle that crashed in the process then derailed its own train. More than 70 fatalities are believed.
- Mikawashima ( Japan ) - Triple derailment and collision
- May 3, 1962 - In the Mikawashima station on the Jōban line in Tokyo , a freight train from Tokyo ran over a signal showing "stop" and derailed. Immediately after the accident, a railcar collided with the obstacle and, in turn, fell onto the track in the opposite direction. Another train from the opposite direction then drove to the scene of the accident. 160 people were killed and 296 injured. The Japanese National Railways (JNR) revised due to this accident in the following years their command fundamentally.
- Voghera ( Italy ) - rear-end collision
- May 31, 1962 - At night, a freight train ran over a signal showing "stop" and hit a passenger train from Milan to Genoa that was stopping at Voghera station with almost no brakes . 64 people died, 36 were also injured.
- Yokohama ( Japan ) - Triple collision after derailment
- November 9, 1963 - Between the Tsurumi and Shinkoyasu stations in Yokohama, the wagon of a freight train derailed and hit the neighboring track. A passenger train drove into the obstacle only seconds later and, when it also derailed, fell onto a third train running in parallel. 162 people died in the accident, another 120 were injured.
- Belgrade ( Yugoslavia ) - rear-end collision
- January 4, 1964 - A suburban train ran into a stationary passenger train in Belgrade (the districts Jajinci and Voždovac are named ). 66 people died and 200 were injured.
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- Mirigama ( Sri Lanka ) - derailment
- Mar 18, 1964 - A commuter train derailed at high speed. At least 60 deaths were the result.
- Custóias ( Portugal ) - derailment
- July 26, 1964 - The final vehicle of an overstaffed, two-part diesel multiple unit derailed in a cut near Custóias and was smashed. 104 people died and 121 were injured.
- Langhagen ( German Democratic Republic ) - Collision of a train with a derailed train
- November 1, 1964 - The wagons of a derailed gravel train protruded into the clearance profile of a second track that an express train ran shortly afterwards. 44 people died.
- Dhanushkodi ( India ) - tidal wave
- December 23, 1964 - In the maritime station of Dhanushkodi was by a cyclone swept away a straight retracts train with extreme wind speeds and several meters high waves. 128 people died.
- Miseiktab ( Sudan ) - head-on collision
- February 26, 1965 - A freight train and a passenger train collided on the Khartoum – Wadi Halfa railway at Miseiktab. 100 people died and 29 were injured.
- Waßmannsdorf ( German Democratic Republic ) - derailment
- June 24, 1965 - In the afternoon of Thursday, several wagons of the passenger train 1221 coming from Potsdam derailed at the entrance to the Waßmannsdorf station due to a warped track that could be attributed to a high level of heat. Nine travelers were killed, including the well-known DEFA actress Ellinor Vogel .
- Durban ( South Africa ) - derailment
- October 4, 1965 - In the derailment of a suburban train with more than 1000 passengers northeast of Durban , 81 people died and several hundred were injured.
- Toungoo ( Burma ) - rear-end collision
- December 8, 1965 - The Yangon - Mandalay night train rode into a passenger train at Toungoo station. 80 people died and 100 were injured.
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- Bombay-Matunga ( India ) - head-on collision
- June 13, 1966 - Due to the failure of the signal system during a heavy monsoon rain, two suburban trains collided head- on at Matunga station in Bombay (today: Mumbai ). 57 people died and over 100 others were injured.
- Langenweddingen ( German Democratic Republic ) - Collision with a tank truck
- July 6, 1967 - In the village of Langenweddingen , twelve kilometers south of Magdeburg , a train collided with a tanker truck as a result of a malfunction at a barrier-free level crossing, which exploded. According to official information, 94 people were killed. The accident was the worst in the history of the Deutsche Reichsbahn in the GDR . As a result, it was determined that guard-operated barriers had to be closed before a train journey could be permitted. In addition, buses and trucks carrying dangerous goods generally had to stop in front of crossings.
- Hither Green (England, UK ) - derailment after broken rail
- Nov. 05, 1967 - An express train derailed due to a broken rail south of Hither Green Station in south London. 49 dead and 78 injured were the result. Among those who survived was Robin Gibb , the singer of the Bee Gees , and his future wife, Molly Hullis.
- Ratu Jaya ( Depok ) ( Indonesia ) - Clash
- Sep. 20, 1968 - 116 people died in a collision between two trains.
- Jajpur Road ( India ) - rear-end collision
- July 14, 1969 - A freight train ran into a passenger train at Jajpur Keonjhar Road station . 85 people died.
- Benavídez ( Argentina ) - rear-end collision
- February 1, 1970 - A long-distance train hit a regional train that had broken down due to technical problems and whose crew failed to secure it to the rear. 142 to 236 dead are named depending on the source. This was the worst railway accident in Argentina's history.
- Langa Langa ( Nigeria ) - derailment
- Feb. 16, 1970 - The front section of a heavily occupied passenger train derailed. About 150 people died.
- Sagzi-Nibod ( Iran ) - rear-end collision
- December 31, 1970 - A passenger train crashed into a stationary freight train. 70 people died and 130 others were injured.
1971-1980
- Aitrang ( Federal Republic of Germany ) - derailment with subsequent rear-end collision
- February 9, 1971 - On the journey from Munich to Zurich , the TEE 56 “ Bavaria ”, a diesel multiple unit of the RAm series of the SBB , drove through a right curve on the Allgäu Railway behind the Aitrang station at 130 km / h, which is only 80 km / h was allowed - the reason could never be clarified for sure. The train derailed and a short time later a rail bus coming from the opposite direction drove to the scene of the accident. 28 people were killed and 42 injured. Among the dead was the actor and director Leonard Steckel .
- Radevormwald ( Federal Republic of Germany ) - Rail bus crashes into a freight train
- May 27, 1971 - On the single-track Wuppertal Railway north of Dahlerau station, a rail bus that was traveling as a special train collided head-on with a freight train. 46 people, including 41 high school students from Radevormwald , died and 25 people were seriously injured. The dispatcher in Dahlerau stated that red signals, the train driver that he saw green. Since radiotelephony was not available on either train, the accident could no longer be prevented. As a result, equipment with railway radio was advanced in Germany.
- Rheinweiler ( Federal Republic of Germany ) - derailment due to excessive speed
- July 21, 1971 - In the southern entrance to the railway station in Rheinweiler, the “Switzerland Express” from Basel to Copenhagen (D 370) derailed when it drove through a tight bend at 140 km / h at almost twice the permissible maximum speed and was carried out of the bend has been. 25 people died and 121 were injured in addition. As a result of the accident, the upgraded German Railways nor by signals placed speed restrictions with point-shaped train control and shortened the response time of the safety drive circuit .
- Jessore ( Bangladesh ) - collision
- June 2, 1972 - A passenger train and a freight train collided at Jessore . 76 people died and more than 500 were injured.
- Vierzy ( France ) - tunnel collapse
- June 16, 1972 - In the train meeting of two railcars in the tunnel of Vierzy unsuccessful, the trains and the tunnel partially collapsed. 108 people died and 111 were injured in addition.
- El Cuervo ( Spain ) - Head-on collision
- July 21, 1972 - The night express train from Madrid to Cádiz and a rail bus collided head-on between the stations of El Cuervo and Lebrija after the driver of the rail bus had run over a signal indicating "stop". 86 people died and 112 were additionally injured.
- Liaqatpur ( Pakistan ) - rear-end collision
- Aug. 6, 1972 - The express train from Bahawalpor to Karachi ran into a stationary freight train in Liaqatpur station , Punjab . 50 people died and 150 were injured.
- Malmesbury ( South Africa ) - derailment
- Sep. 29, 1972 - A nine-car passenger train derailed near Malmesbury . About 100 people died.
- Saltillo ( Mexico ) - Derailment and fire
- October 5, 1972 - A train, formed from a garbage-ripe set, carried 2,200 pilgrims . When the brakes failed on a steep downhill gradient, he derailed at excessive speed in a curve. The rubble caught fire. At least 230 travelers were killed and more than 1,000 injured.
- São Miguel ( Portugal ) - Collision between passenger and freight trains
- March 27, 1974 - In the vicinity of Lourenço Marques (today: Maputo , then: Portuguese East Africa , today: Mozambique), a passenger train coming from Southern Rhodesia (today: Zimbabwe ) and a freight train traveling in the opposite direction , which consisted of tank wagons , who had loaded petroleum existed, head-on. The resulting fire developed so much and so heat that rescue work was impossible for a long time. 60 people died.
- Zagreb ( Yugoslavia ) - Derailment due to excessive speed
- August 30, 1974 - A special train for guest workers on the way from Belgrade to Dortmund derailed while driving through a curve that was only permitted for 40 km / h at more than 100 km / h . 153 people died and 60 others were injured. This was the worst railway accident in the history of Yugoslavia .
- London (England, United Kingdom ) - Underground train collides with the end of the tunnel
- February 28, 1975 - Without braking, a subway train in Moorgate station ran into a stump tunnel against the wall at the end. The cause remained unclear. 43 people died and 74 were also injured. As a consequence, a system for emergency braking, the “Moorgate Control”, was installed in such operational situations.
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Sidi Yahya El Gharb ( Morocco )
- May 22, 1975 - The express train from Tangier to Casablanca derailed. More than 50 people died and 100 were injured.
- Warngau ( Federal Republic of Germany ) - head-on collision between two trains
- June 8, 1975 - Between Warngau and Schaftlach , two express trains collided head-on on the single- track Holzkirchen – Lenggries railway line due to a dispatcher error and an air crossing planned in the timetable . There were 41 dead and 122 injured. The "air crossing" in the timetable was then banned.
- Granville ( Australia ) - derailment
- Jan 18, 1977 - Due to a poor superstructure, the locomotive of a busy commuter train in Granville , Parramatta , jumped off the tracks under an overpass. The locomotive collided with the bridge piers and the bridge crashed onto two of the train's wagons. 83 people died and 210 were injured. This was the most momentous railway accident and the worst peacetime accident ever in the history of Australia .
- Naini ( India ) - rear-end collision
- October 10, 1977 - A passenger train ran into a freight train in Naini station . More than 61 people died and 151 were injured.
- Iri ( South Korea ) - explosion
- Nov. 11, 1977 - A dynamite- laden train exploded in Iri , Jeollabuk-do station . At least 59 people died.
- Sa Pereira ( Argentina ) - Truck collision
- February 25, 1978 - The Estrella del Norte from San Miguel de Tucumán to Buenos Aires with 2,130 passengers on board collided with a trailer of a truck at Saa Pereya in the province of Santa Fe . 55 people died and 56 were also injured.
- Yangzhuang ( People's Republic of China ) - rear-end collision
- December 16, 1978 - An express train crashed into a passenger train at Yangzhuang Railway Station in Lujiang , Anhui . 106 people died and 218 were also injured.
- Chuadunga District ( Bangladesh ) - Derailment
- Jan 26, 1979 - A heavily manned passenger train derailed and overturned in the Chuadunga district. 70 people died and more than 200 were injured.
- Taling Chan ( Thailand ) - head-on collision
- Aug 21, 1979 - A commuter train from Thonburi to Nakhon Pathom collided with a freight train from Bangsue to Padang Besar because the freight train driver was overtired. 54 people died. This was the worst railway accident in the history of Thailand .
- Stalać ( Yugoslavia ) - clash
- September 13, 1979 - A freight train hit a passenger train on the flank. At least 60 people died and 116 were injured.
- Holhol ( Djibouti ) - derailment and crash
- October 31, 1979 - A train on the Djibouti – Addis Ababa railway derailed at Holhol in Djibouti and fell down an embankment. 60 people died and 80 were also injured.
- Mississauga ( Canada ) - Broken axle in a chemical train
- November 10, 1979 - At Mississauga in the greater Toronto area , a wagon axle broke on a train with 106 freight cars (38 of which were loaded with dangerous substances). The accident did not result in any fatalities, but between 200,000 and 250,000 residents had to be evacuated.
- Otłoczyn ( Poland ) - head-on collision
- August 19, 1980 - For an unexplained cause, a freight train waiting on an overtaking track left the Otłoczyn station despite the exit signal being displayed, drove a switch on and onto the track in the opposite direction on the main line to Toruń / Thorn. From there a passenger train came towards him. 67 people died in the head-on collision, and 62 were also injured.
1981-1990
- Daegu ( South Korea ) - Accident at level crossing and subsequent rear-end collision
- May 14, 1981 - At a level crossing near Daegu , an express train from Pusan to Seoul hit a motorcycle, braked, and stopped. A following local train started up, either because there was a signal interference or because the engine driver of the second train ran over a signal indicating that it was stopping. 54 people died.
- Mansi ( India ) - fall from bridge
- June 6, 1981 - The Kalka Mail crashed into the Bagmati at Mansi in Bihar , which was heavily swollen by the monsoon, for a reason that was not fully understood . At least 250 people died, perhaps up to 600, or were permanently missing.
- Gagra ( Soviet Union ) - head-on collision
- June 25, 1981 - In the seaside resort of Gagra in Georgia / Abkhazia , an express train and a regional train collided head-on. At least 70 people died and another 140 were injured.
- Bhanwar Tonk ( India ) - rear-end collision
- July 7, 1981 or July 21, 1981 - A freight train drove onto the Narmada Express near Bhanwar Tonk Station in Madhya Pradesh . At least 50 people died and 43 others were injured.
- Niri ( People's Republic of China ) - bridge collapse
- July 9, 1981 - After a mudslide at night tore away the railway bridge over the Liziyida , a tributary to the Dadu He , on the Chengdu-Kunming Railway in Ganluo County in Sichuan Province , a train ran into the gap. The locomotive and two wagons fell nearly 20 meters. More than 200 people (according to another source: 360) died. This was the most momentous railway accident in the history of China.
- Bouhalouane ( Algeria ) - Collision due to runaway cars
- January 27, 1982 - On a slope, the staff of a broken-down train from Oran to Algiers uncoupled the locomotive from the train. The brakes on the wagons did not stop it, it rolled downhill and collided with a freight train in the Bouhalouane station. 131 people died, 200 were also injured.
- Agra, India - head-on collision
- January 27, 1982 - In thick fog near Agra, an hour late express train and a freight train collided head-on because the locomotive driver of the passenger train, who was killed, had probably not seen a signal indicating "stop". 63 people died and another 41 were injured.
- Bàu Cá ( Vietnam ) - Derailment due to excessive speed
- March 17, 1982 - A train traveling too fast from Nha Trang to Ho Chi Minh City derailed behind the Dau Giay station near Bàu Cá at kilometer 1652 on the Hanoi – Ho Chi Minh City railway in the Dong Nai province . In an eight-kilometer gradient of 15 ‰, the train drove through a tight curve at an excessive speed of 100 km / h. The locomotive and eleven or twelve wagons derailed, overturned and ended up about 20 meters from the track. More than 200 people died, including both train drivers. 10 years later, in 1992, the line was rebuilt at this point and the curve radius increased.
- Andhra Pradesh ( India ) - Collision at level crossing
- March 20, 1982 - At a level crossing, a tourist bus was hit by a train traveling from Mangalore to New Delhi . 59 people died and 25 others were injured.
- Tepic ( Mexico ) - derailment
- July 12, 1982 - A train traveling from Nogales to Guadalajara derailed and crashed into a ravine. 52 people died and more than 120 were injured.
- Guaymas ( Mexico ) - rear-end collision
- February 20, 1983 - A train traveling from Nogales to Guadalajara hit a freight train near Guaymas and exploded. 56 people died and 78 were also injured.
- Ishwardi ( Bangladesh ) - bridge collapse
- March 22, 1983 - A bridge in Ishwardi Province collapsed under a train passing over it due to a lack of construction maintenance. At least 60 people died.
- Heilbronn ( Federal Republic of Germany ) - derailment
- August 12, 1984 - The night express train D 890 from Stuttgart to Hamburg-Altona came from the area of a construction site, which it passed on the track in the opposite direction. At the entrance to Heilbronn he should switch back to the "right" track. It happened at a very high speed. He derailed. Three dead, including the Baden-Württemberg member of the state parliament Josef Wilhelm Hauser , and 56 injured were the result.
- Chargoon ( India ) - Destroyed bridge
- Aug 16, 1984 - A railway bridge was washed away by flood near Chargoon Railway Station , Madhya Pradesh . A passenger train drove into this gap and fell into the river. 56 people died 120 were injured in addition.
- Awash ( Ethiopia ) - derailment
- January 14, 1985 - Four of the five carriages of a passenger train with about 1000 passengers derailed near the city of Awash on the Djibouti – Addis Ababa railway line in Ethiopia due to excessive speed when crossing the Awash River and fell into the abyss. 428 dead and about 500 injured were the result.
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- Rajnandgaon ( India ) - A train caught fire
- February 23, 1985 - About 100 people died when an express train caught fire in Rajnandgaon near Calcutta .
- Mozambique ( Mozambique ) - Railway accident
- August 2, 1985 - 58 people died in a railway accident and 160 were injured. According to the government, it was an operational accident. The guerrillas alleged an act of sabotage they carried out as the cause.
- Moimenta-Alcafache ( Portugal ) - Head-on collision
- September 11, 1985 - The Sud-Express collided head-on with a regional train near Alcafache on the Beira Alta line . At least 113 people died.
- Limache ( Chile ) - head-on collision
- February 17, 1986 - Due to a series of defects in the railway infrastructure and the failure of the dispatcher, two railcars collided head- on between the Peñablanca and Limache stations . At least 58 people died and 518 were injured. This was the most momentous railway accident in Chile .
- Khagaria ( India ) - clash
- March 10, 1986 - More than 50 people died in a collision in Khagaria , Bihar, and 200 were injured.
- Palamau District, India - Clash
- August 6, 1986 - The express train from Tatanagar Junction ( Jamshedpur ) station to Amritsar hit a stationary freight train, causing two passenger cars to fall into a river. 52 people died, 35 were also injured.
- Chase ( United States ) - Clash
- Jan 4, 1987 - 16 people died and 175 injured in a collision near Chase, Maryland. As a result, all vehicles that were equipped with the old Pulse Code Cab Signaling were supplemented by a computerized LSL speed monitoring system and drug tests for train drivers that were independent of suspicion were introduced.
- São Paulo ( Brazil ) - clash
- February 17, 1987 - Maintenance work resulted in a signal and switch setting that caused two overcrowded commuter trains to collide. More than 69 people died and 150 were injured.
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Kasumbalesa ( Zaire ) - Accident at the level crossing
- July 2, 1987 - At a level crossing, a truck drove into the flank of a passenger train and overturned its first car, which in turn derailed two other cars. 128 people died.
- Manchieral ( India ) - derailment
- July 9, 1987 - The Dakshin Express from Hyderabad to New Delhi derailed after a railway embankment was washed away near Manchieral, Andhra Pradesh . 70 people were killed.
- Kamensk-Shakhtinsky ( Soviet Union ) - rear-end collision
- August 7, 1987 - After most of the braking system of a heavy freight train had been disabled, it accelerated on a long downward slope to more than double the permissible speed. The wagons derailed. The locomotive stayed on the track and hit a passenger train at around 140 km / h that was scheduled to stop at Kamensk-Schachtinski station . 106 people died and about 100 were additionally injured.
- Bintaro ( Indonesia ) - head-on collision
- October 19, 1987 - After a dispatcher error, two passenger trains collided head-on between the Kebayoran and Sudimara stations. 153 people died.
- Qiewu ( People's Republic of China ) - derailment
- January 24, 1988 - The express train No. 80 from Kunming to Shanghai , derailed at Qiewu . At least 88 people died and another 62 were injured.
- Arsamas ( Soviet Union ) - explosion
- June 4, 1988 - Three freight cars loaded with around 120 tons of explosives exploded in the Russian city of Arsamas . 91 people died and around 1,500 were injured.
- Paris ( France ) - rear-end collision due to deactivated brakes
- June 27, 1988 - After an emergency braking of an eight-section railcar, the staff inadvertently disabled the brakes on the seven rear cars of the train. This error was only noticed shortly before the Gare de Lyon station , when the train could no longer brake on the slope of the entrance to the underground station there and ran into a train standing there. 56 people died and another 32 were seriously injured.
- Ashtamudi Lake ( India ) - derailment
- July 8, 1988 - At least 105 people drowned when the Island Express derailed on a bridge over Lake Ashtamudi , Kerala , and crashed into the lake.
- Tongi, Bangladesh - Head-on collision
- January 15, 1989 - Two completely overstaffed express trains collided head-on in Tongi station . At least 130 people died.
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Djibouti – Addis Ababa railway line ( Ethiopia ) - collision
- March 2, 1989 - A freight train, on which numerous "blind passengers" were traveling, collided with three empty railroad cars. 57 people died and 54 were also injured.
- Lalitpur ( India ) - derailment
- April 18, 1989 - A train derailed in Uttar Pradesh . 75 people died.
- Tepic ( Mexico ) - Brake failure
- May 4, 1989 - A train ran out of control on a downhill slope due to a brake failure. In a curve, the locomotive and three cars were thrown from the track and fell into a ravine. Depending on the source, 20 to 52 fatalities are given.
- Ascha ( Soviet Union ) - gas explosion
- June 4, 1989 - About ten kilometers southwest of the city of Ascha , near Ufa , gas escaping from a damaged pipeline exploded just as two passenger trains passed by. At least 575 people died.
- Guasave ( Mexico ) - bridge collapse
- August 1989 - At Guasave , a bridge collapsed after being submerged when a train passed it. 104 people were killed.
- Moghulsari ( India ) - derailment
- November 1, 1989 - Near the Moghulsari train station , Uttar Pradesh , ten of the 18 Toofan Express cars derailed . 58 people died and 60 others were seriously injured.
- Mosul ( Iraq ) - derailment
- November 10, 1989 - A passenger train derailed south of Mosul , Iraq . More than 50 people died and many were injured. Since the government and the media it controls did not provide any information on the number of victims, no more precise information is available.
- Sangi ( Pakistan ) - rear-end collision
- January 4, 1990 - The night express train " Zakaria Bahauddin " of Pakistan Railways ran into a freight train in the station of Sangi, which was being overhauled, because the switch had not been taken back for the overhaul. 307 people died, 400–700 (depending on the source) were also injured.
- Rüsselsheim ( Federal Republic of Germany ) - Collision between two S-Bahn trains
- February 2, 1990 - After an S-Bahn crossed a signal showing "Stop" when exiting Rüsselsheim station , despite the emergency braking, there was a head-on collision with an oncoming S-Bahn because the slip path was too short for the speed reached. 17 people died and 145 people were seriously injured. As a result, improved punctiform train control was introduced with the PZB 90 .
- Patna ( India ) - A train caught fire
- April 16, 1990 - At least 70 people died when a suburban train caught fire near Patna .
- Mangra ( India ) - rear-end collision
- June 25, 1990 - A freight train ran into a passenger train in Mangra , Bihar . 60 people died.
1991-2000
- Nacala ( Mozambique ) - derailment
- March 4, 1991 - A runaway train derails near Nacala . 96 people died.
- Santa Clara ( Cuba ) - Derailment
- April 6, 1991 - A train derails near Santa Clara . 56 people died.
- Ghotki ( Pakistan ) - rear-end collision
- June 8, 1991 - A train with 800 passengers crashed into a stationary freight train in Ghotki station. More than 100 people died.
- Mvoungouti, Republic of the Congo - head-on collision
- September 6, 1991 - A passenger train traveling from Pointe-Noire to Brazzaville collided with a loaded freight train. 133 people died.
- Ngai Ndethya ( Kenya ) - bridge collapse
- January 30, 1993 - A 600 passenger train bound for Mombasa crashed into a river near Ngai Ndethya after the railway bridge was washed away. 65 people died.
- Liaoning, People's Republic of China - Bus collision
- January 31, 1993 - The express train No. 77 from Chifeng to Dalian collided with an overstaffed coach at an unoccupied level crossing. 66 people died, 28 were also injured.
- Busan ( South Korea ) - Broken track
- March 28, 1993 - When the express train from Seoul to Busan entered the destination station, 30 meters of track gave way and eight cars derailed. 79 people were killed.
- Without exact location ( Mozambique ) - derailment
- September 13, 1993 - A train derailed in the “northern part of the country”. 77 people died.
- Chhabra ( India ) - clash
- September 21, 1993 - 71 people died in a collision between a passenger train and a freight train.
- Durban ( South Africa ) - derailment
- March 8, 1994 - When a suburban train with around 800 passengers derailed west of Durban , 65 people died and 370 were injured.
- Tolunda ( Angola ) - Brake failure
- September 22, 1994 - Due to defective brakes, a train derailed and fell into a ravine. 300 people died.
- Wuntho ( Myanmar ) - derailment
- December 30, 1994 - A passenger car on a train that was traveling from Mandalay to Myitkyina derailed on a bridge near Wuntho and fell into a ravine. 102 people died.
- Salem ( India ) - clash
- May 14, 1995 - The express train from Madras to Kanyakumari collided with a freight train near Salem , Tamil Nadu . 52 people died.
- Firozabad ( India ) - rear-end collision after wrong signal
- August 20, 1995 - Due to a prematurely cleared route on which a train had broken down, two heavily manned night trains on their way to Delhi collided at Firozabad station . 335 people died.
- Baku ( Azerbaijan ) - Metro tunnel fire
- October 28, 1995 - Due to a technical defect in the electrical system of a Baku Metro train , the fully occupied train caught fire in the tunnel near the Ulduz station . 303 people died. The disaster is considered the most momentous accident in the history of the underground railway worldwide.
- Badrshein ( Egypt ) - rear-end collision after driving over a signal
- December 21, 1995 - In thick fog there was a rear-end collision in the Badrshein train station , about 21 km south of Cairo : A train from Giza to Bani Suwaif that stopped there was driven into a second train from Cairo to Aswan , after having a " Halt “had passed the commanding signal. The engine driver is said to have been drugged. 75 people died and about 70 were injured.
- Kiazi ( Republic of the Congo ) - Derailment
- April 6, 1996 - In the vicinity of Kiazi train station , southeast of Brazzaville , an overloaded freight train derailed, with which many “stowaways” were traveling. Up to 100 deaths were the result.
- Domingarh ( India ) - clash
- April 18, 1996 - The Gorakhpur to Gonda passenger train ran into a freight train that was stopping in Domingarh , Uttar Pradesh . 60 people were killed.
- No place ( Zambia ) - collision with tanker truck
- June 7, 1996 - A tank truck crashed into a train and went up in flames. 50 deaths were the result.
- Piacenza ( Italy ) - derailment
- January 1, 1997 - The Pendolino Milan – Rome, occupied by 150 people, derailed in Piacenza station . 8 people died. The cause was probably a deficiency in the superstructure. Since the former Italian President Francesco Cossiga was on board the train, the rumor of sabotage arose.
- Mirshah ( Pakistan ) - rear-end collision
- March 3, 1997 - In the Mirshah railway station, Punjab , Pakistan , the arriving Zulfikar Express collided with a second train standing there on a dead end after a brake failure. 125 people died.
- Rongjiawan ( People's Republic of China ) - rear-end collision
- April 29, 1997 - In the train station of Rongjiawan , Yueyang , Hunan , due to incorrectly switched signals, an incoming train collided with a train standing there. 126 people died and 200 were also injured.
- Champa ( India ) - derailment
- September 14, 1997 - At least 77 people died - the various statements range up to "more than 120 dead" - when the Ahmedabad- Howrah Express derailed on a bridge and some wagons crashed into a river.
- Masit ( India ) - rear-end collision
- January 5, 1998 - At Masit station, a passenger train ran into an express train that had broken down on the route. At least 51 people died.
- Yaoundé ( Cameroon ) - Explosion
- February 15, 1998 - After a fuel-laden train derailed near Yaoundé , another drove in. Two tank cars exploded. 220 people died.
- Eschede ( Germany ) 1998 - derailment and bridge collapse
- June 3, 1998 - Due to structural defects and wear and tear, a tire on the first wagon of an ICE 1 broke and came off. One end of the wheel tire penetrated the floor of the car, the other damaged a switch located in the approach area of Eschede station , so that the following cars derailed at 200 km / h. They rammed the central pillar of a road bridge and caused it to collapse. The bridge fell on the fifth and sixth carriages, the rest of the train ran into these rubble. In the worst railway accident in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany, 101 people were killed and 88 others were seriously injured.
- Khanna ( India ) - derailment and collision
- November 26, 1998 - After wagons on the Golden Temple Express to Amritsar derailed, the Jammu Tawi-Sealdah Express entered these wagons at Khanna , Punjab . At least 209 people died.
- Wuppertal ( Germany ) - suspension railway accident
- April 12, 1999 - A train derailed on the Wuppertal suspension railway near the Robert-Daum-Platz station when it hit a steel claw that had been forgotten after construction work. Five people died and 49 others were seriously injured. It was the worst accident on a suspension railway.
- Minsk ( Belarus ) - panic
- May 29, 1999 - 52 people died and more than 150 were injured when 2,000 people tried to rush into a Minsk metro station at the same time. The crowd came from a rock concert, was caught by a hailstorm and tried to escape to the subway station. Falling people were trampled. Many young people and two police officers were among the victims.
- Gaisal ( India ) - head-on collision
- August 2, 1999 - In the collision of the Awadh-Assam Express and the Brahmaputra Mail in Gaisal , West Bengal , 287 people died and 312 were injured.
- London ( United Kingdom ) - head-on collision
- October 5, 1999 - In a head-on collision between two trains at Ladbroke Grove , 31 people died and 523 were injured. It was the worst accident in the history of the Great Western Main Line . The accident contributed significantly to the fact that the rail reform in Great Britain was withdrawn.
- Central Nigeria ( Nigeria ) - Truck collision
- December 18, 1999 - A truck full of traders drove into a train at a level crossing, resulting in at least 50 deaths.
- Kaprun ( Austria ) - Fire in the tunnel
- November 11, 2000 - 155 people died in a fire disaster in the tunnel of the funicular to the Kitzsteinhorn in Kaprun . The cause was a fan heater that caught fire. The subsequent investigation and criminal proceedings concluded that the error could not have been foreseen.
21st century
2001-2010
- Mvoungouti ( Republic of the Congo ) - Clash
- January 10, 2001 - Two freight trains of the Chemin de fer Congo-Océan (CFCO), on which numerous dodgers were traveling, collided between Pointe-Noire and Dolisie . At least 50 people died.
- Kadalundi ( India ) - derailment
- June 22, 2001 - The Mangalore Mail from Mangalore to Chennai derailed on the bridge over the Kadalundi near Kadalundi , Kerala , and crashes into the river. 57 people died and at least 230 were injured.
- Minot ( United States ) - Derailment after broken rail
- January 18, 2002 - West of Minot , North Dakota , derailed a freight train, with five pressurized tank cars that toxic , corrosive ammonia were loaded as a pressure-liquefied gas, precious. One resident died, numerous were injured, and around 11,600 residents had to be evacuated.
- Ayyat ( Egypt ) - explosion of a gas cylinder
- February 20, 2002 - After a gas cylinder exploded on an overstaffed train from Cairo to Luxor , seven 3rd class cars burned out before the train came to a stop at Ayyat station. 383 people died.
- Tenga ( Mozambique ) - Collision between train and runaway car
- May 26, 2002 - Temporarily parked wagons occupied by 600 passengers started moving independently on a slope and collided with the locomotive, which was pulling the rest of the train up the slope. 192 dead and 167 injured were the result.
- Igandu ( Tanzania ) - Passenger and freight train collision
- June 24, 2002 - A passenger train that had come to a halt on an incline near Dodoma rolled back, the brakes failed. He collided with a freight train that was also on the single-track route. At least 281 of the approximately 1,000 passengers died.
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Rafiganj ( India ) - derailment
- September 10, 2002 - The Rajdhani Express , the Kolkata to New Delhi connects derailed on the bridge over the river Dhave the station Rafiganj in Gaya , two cars plunged into the river. More than 130 people died, 50 were missing and more than 150 injured. The official investigation came to the conclusion that tabs on rail joints had been removed. However, it remained controversial whether it was an attack or an accident due to insufficient maintenance of the superstructure.
- Dete ( Zimbabwe ) - Violation of safety regulations with defective signal system
- February 1, 2003 - Up to 50 people died when a passenger train with 1,100 passengers collided head- on with an oncoming freight train near Dete . The signal system was defective and safety rules that had to be observed in such a case were violated.
- Vaibhavwadi ( India ) - derailment
- June 22, 2003 - A special train between Karwar and Mumbai used during the holiday season drove into a landslide caused by monsoon rains . 51 people died.
- Nishapur, Iran - A train loaded with chemicals explodes
- February 18, 2004 - A freight train set off driverless near the Iranian city of Nishapur (also Neyschabur ) and derailed, whereupon some wagons caught fire. Several tank wagons exploded during the extinguishing work. 320 people died, mostly firefighters, 460 were injured.
- Ryongchŏn ( North Korea ) - Explosion of a tanker truck
- April 22, 2004 - According to North Korean information, at around 1:00 p.m. local time at Ryongchŏn train station , a car loaded with oil and two wagons loaded with ammonium nitrate fertilizer collided while shunting. Here was reportedly knocked over a pole of the overhead line and the generated short circuit arc , the explosion that triggered the ammonium nitrate. 161 people were killed and 40% of the city was destroyed.
- Seenigama ( Sri Lanka ) - fully occupied express train hit by tsunami wave
- December 26, 2004 - The studded with about 2,000 people express from Vavuniya via Colombo to Matara on Sri Lanka was 20 km outside the city Galle in place Seenigama by the by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami triggered 10-meter high tsunami - wave recorded and torn the tracks. Only around 150 people were saved, around 1,800 people died, most of them drowned. This is the worst rail accident in the world.
- Graniteville, South Carolina, United States - One freight train rear-end collided with a second
- Jan 6, 2005 - An incorrectly set point caused a freight train to run into a second near the town of Graniteville, South Carolina . Chlorine escaping from the cargo killed 9 people. Around 250 residents suffered respiratory damage. 5400 residents who lived within a radius of 1.5 km from the scene of the accident had to be evacuated.
- Nagpur ( India ) - Collision at level crossing
- Feb. 3, 2005 - 55 people died when a tractor with guests returning from a wedding on a trailer collided with a train in Kanan, 20 km from Nagpur , Maharashtra state .
- Amagasaki ( Japan ) - Derailment due to excessive speed
- April 25, 2005 - An express train from Takarazuka to Dōshisha-mae with about 700 people derailed in an arc near Osaka between the two stations of Tsukaguchi and Amagasaki , with the first two cars being thrown against a residential building. 107 people were killed and 549 injured. The train driver had not reduced the speed to the mandatory 70 km / h.
- Sarhad ( Pakistan ) - Triple clash
- July 12, 2005 - Due to an incorrectly programmed signal system, the Karachi Express from Lahore to Karachi collided with the Quetta Express that had broken down in Sarhad train station in Sindh Province in southern Pakistan . The Tezgam Express, coming from the opposite direction from Karachi, drove into the rubble . 137 people were killed.
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Brandywine Falls Provincial Park ( Canada ) - derailment
- August 5, 2005 - Nine (?) Tank cars of the Canadian National Railway filled with sodium hydroxide fell into the Cheakamus River ; an estimated 500,000 fish died.
- Valigonda ( India ) - Washed away bridge
- October 29, 2005 - The Delta Express crashed into a river near Valigonda in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh after a bridge was washed away after a dam broke. 114 people died.
- Likeri ( Democratic Republic of the Congo ) - bridge accident
- November 28, 2005 - When a train of the Société Nationale des Chemins de fer du Congo crossed a bridge on the journey from Lubumbashi to Kindu on the Kamina – Kindu railway line , the superstructure of the bridge drove numerous travelers onto the roofs of the Car rode, thrown down. Around 60 people died and an unknown number were injured.
- Qaliub ( Egypt ) - rear-end collision
- August 21, 2006 - Due to a signal disturbance, a commuter train from Mansura ran into a train from Benha, which was stopping in front of the Qaliub station, in the morning rush hour . 58 people died, 140 were also injured.
- Lathen ( Germany ) - rear-end collision
- September 22, 2006 - On the Transrapid test route in Lathen , a train with 31 passengers crashed into a workshop vehicle at around 160 km / h. 23 people were killed and 10 seriously injured. This was the most momentous accident involving a monorail in the world.
- Benaleka ( Democratic Republic of the Congo ) - derailment
- August 1, 2007 - At the derailment of a freight train near Benalekas more than 100 died Stowaways , 220 people were injured.
- Zibo ( People's Republic of China ) - Derailment and collision
- April 28, 2008 - In the near Zibo in the province of Shandong an express train ran through a construction site at excessive speed and derailed. A second train from the opposite direction drove to the scene of the accident. 72 people died, 416 were also injured.
- Bilinga ( Republic of the Congo ) - derailment
- June 22, 2010 - A passenger train on its way from Pointe-Noire to Brazzaville derailed, four cars crashed into a ravine. 76 people died and at least 745 were injured.
- Sainthia ( India ) - rear-end collision
- July 19, 2010 - An express train crashed into another express train stopped at Sainthia station. The cause of the accident was never clarified. 66 dead and 165 injured were the result.
2011-2020
- Fatehpur ( India ) - derailment
- July 10, 2011 - The Howrah-Kalka-Express from Howrah to Delhi, with about 1000 passengers, derailed near Fatehpur in the state of Uttar Pradesh due to a "fault in the superstructure", perhaps a broken rail. 70 dead and more than 300 injured were the result.
- Wenzhou ( People's Republic of China ) - rear-end collision
- July 23, 2011 - A high-speed train with 558 passengers hit another high-speed train with 1,072 passengers on a viaduct at about 100 km / h due to a lightning strike in a signaling device on the Hangzhou – Shenzhen high-speed line . Four cars crashed from the viaduct. 40 people died and more than 210 were injured.
- Buenos Aires ( Argentina ) - Brake failure
- February 22, 2012 - A railcar with 1000 passengers crashed into a buffer at the terminal station Estación Once de Septiembre in Buenos Aires due to a brake failure . 51 people died and 703 were injured.
- Manfalut ( Egypt ) - Collision on level crossing
- December 17, 2012 - When a school bus and a train collided on a level crossing in Manfalut , more than 50 people died: the gatekeeper fell asleep and did not close the barriers. The subsequent rescue measures were not adequate. The head of the Egyptian State Railways and the Egyptian Minister of Transport resigned.
- Lac-Mégantic ( Canada ) - Derailment and explosion of tank wagons
- July 6, 2013 - The train consisting of five locomotives and 72 wagons loaded with crude oil derailed without a driver and exploded. The center of the village was destroyed. At least 47 people died.
- Santiago de Compostela ( Spain ) - derailment
- July 24, 2013 - A Talgo train traveling from Madrid to Ferrol derailed due to excessive speed near Santiago de Compostela . 79 people died and over 140 were injured.
- Katongola ( Republic of the Congo ) - Derailment
- April 22, 2014 - A freight train, which was also used by many stowaways , derailed near the village of Katongola. According to eyewitness reports, the train was traveling at excessive speed, and a technical failure of the locomotive was suspected. The number of travelers killed is unclear; the sources vary between 48 and 100. The number of injured is estimated at over 150.
- Bachhrawan ( India ) - buffer stop crossing
- March 20, 2015 - After a brake failure, the Janata Express ran over the end of the track after a protective switch in Bachhrawan station . The locomotive and the two immediately following cars derailed, the two cars were crushed between the locomotive and the pushing train. At least 58 people died and about 150 were injured.
- Éséka ( Cameroon ) - derailment
- October 21, 2016 - The overcrowded Intercity 152 derailed on the journey from Yaoundé to Douala in Éséka. At least 79 people died and 600 others were injured.
- Kanpur ( India ) - derailment
- November 20, 2016 - At Kanpur in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh , the Patna-Indore-Express with up to 2500 passengers derailed . At least 150 people died.
- Chitrino ( Bulgaria ) - derailment
- December 10, 2016 - A freight train with 24 tank cars derailed on its way from Burgas to Russian in Chitrino. The last car collided with a power pole. Then there was an explosion that destroyed 20 houses. At least five people died and at least 29 others were injured.
- Amritsar ( India ) - People on the platform
- October 19, 2018 - When fireworks were set off in Amritsar for the Dashahara festival , hundreds of people had evaded into the track area of an operating point, where a passing train ran over numerous spectators. 61 people died, 72 were also injured.
- Tanwari ( Pakistan ) - Exploded gas cylinder
- October 31, 2019 - After a gas bottle exploded on the Tezgam Express from Karachi to Lahore, three cars burned out. 75 people died.
See also
literature
- Anonymous ("A Shareholder"): The Case of the Railways considered, especially with reference to Railway Accidents. WH Smith, London 1852 ( digitized, PDF ).
- Karcev Khazanovskij: Why were the experts wrong? Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-341-00545-5 .
- Keith Eastlake: The Greatest Railroad Disasters. ISBN 3-8112-1580-9 .
- Southworth Allen Howland: Steamboat disasters and Railroad accidents in the United States: to which is appended accounts of recent shipwrecks, fires at sea, thrilling incidents, etc. Worcester, Massachusetts 1840, pp. 286ff.
- Erich Preuss: Railway accidents in Europe. Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-344-70716-7 .
- Erich Preuss: Journey to Doom. Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-613-71058-7 .
- Bernhard Püschel: Historical railway disasters. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1997, ISBN 3-88255-838-5 .
- Hans-Joachim Ritzau, Jürgen Hörstel, Thomas Wolski: Shadow of the railway history. 1997, ISBN 3-921304-36-9 .
- Hans-Joachim Ritzau: Shadows of Railway History - A Comparison of British, US and German Railways. 1987, ISBN 3-921304-69-5 .
- Hans-Joachim Ritzau: Shadow of the Railway History - Catastrophes of the German Railways Part II. 1993, ISBN 3-921304-86-5 .
- Peter WB Semmens: Disasters on the rails. A worldwide documentation. Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71030-3 .
- Second hazard report by the Protection Commission at the Federal Ministry of the Interior , Bonn ( Federal Office of Administration - Central Office for Civil Protection ) 2001. (Note: The Central Office for Civil Protection has ceased to exist in 2004. It has been transferred to the newly established Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Aid ( BBK ).)
Web links
Commons : Railway Accidents - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Remarks
- ^ The source, Bernhard Püschel: Historical railway catastrophes. A chronicle of accidents from 1840 to 1926 . Freiburg 1977. ISBN 3-88255-838-5 , p. 120, formulates somewhat imprecisely: " About 100 people are said to have had an accident in this accident ".
- ↑ The locations could not be identified. According to Semmens, p. 62, they are supposed to be about 160 km from Rangoon.
- ↑ The exact location of the accident could not be identified from the source (Semmens, p. 94).
- ↑ Morgny is in the Eure department in Normandy .
- ^ According to Semmens, p. 117: "77 km from Lucknow ".
- ↑ The train station is about one kilometer from Bhatni Bazar , Uttar Pradesh .
- ↑ Sambhu is a train station 17 km from Ambala Cantonment Junction on the Ambala – Attari railway line .
- ↑ The statement in Semmens, p. 124 that Sambhu is a terminus station is incorrect. It is a through station .
- ↑ The scene of the accident, which is said to have been 19 km from Santiago de Chile , cannot be assigned. There is probably a typo in the source (Semmens, p. 154): “San Fernando” or “San Bernardo” would be plausible, but they cannot be assigned either.
- ↑ Naini lies with Prayagraj .
- ↑ The accident was kept secret by the authorities. The news about this is based on information gathered by Western correspondents in Moscow at the time (Semmens, p. 188).
- ↑ Due to the similarity of some of the information, it is reasonable to suspect that this accident is identical to the one listed here under Guaymas, February 20, 1983, or Tepic, May 4, 1989.
- ↑ Due to the similarity of some of the information, the suspicion that this accident is identical to the one listed here under Tepic, July 12, 1982, or Tepic, May 4, 1989.
- ↑ According to Semmens, p. 211, the train ran into freight wagons that had detached themselves from a freight train ahead, and he also reports a canal instead of a river.
- ↑ Due to the similarity of some of the information, the suspicion that this accident is identical to the one listed here under Tepic, July 12, 1982, or Guaymas, February 20, 1983.
- ↑ The various sources name August 4th, 9th and 10th.
Individual evidence
- ^ David Wragg: Signal Failure: Politics & Britain's Railways. Stroud 2004, ISBN 978-0-7509-3293-6 , p. 46.
- ^ Richard Balkwill, John Marshall: The Guinness Book of Railway Facts and Feats. 6th edition, 1993, ISBN 0-85112-707-X .
- ^ Simon Garfield: The Last Journey of William Huskisson . Faber and Faber, 2002. ISBN 0-571-21048-1 , p. 147.
- ^ Railways Archive - Accident Archive .
- ^ Southworth Allen Howland: Steamboat disasters and Railroad accidents in the United States: to which is appended accounts of recent shipwrecks, fires at sea, thrilling incidents, etc. Worcester, Massachusetts 1840, pp. 286f.
- ^ Railways Archive - Accident Archive .
- ↑ Railway Regulation Act 1844 (PDF; 845 kB)
- ^ A. Peter: Franklin Pierce: New Hampshire's Favorite Son. Concord 2004; Franklin Pierce biography on the archived White House home page .
- ^ Platoon leader and 22 internees dead, 72 injured: In: Paul Winter Swiss Railways under flags. P. 26.
- ↑ 24 dead including platoon leader: In: Year book for Solothurn history. P. 384.
- ↑ Nicholas Faith: Derail: Why Trains Crash. 2000, ISBN 0-7522-7165-2 , p. 44.
- ^ The ten deadliest (sic) railway bridge accidents in the past 150 years ( Memento from June 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (In English).
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- ↑ Hans-Joachim Ritzau, Jürgen Hörstel, Thomas Wolski: Shadow of the railway history. 1997, ISBN 3-921304-36-9 , p. 117.
- ↑ Mark Meinold: The engine driver of the Prussian State Railway 1880-1914. Hövelhof 2008, ISBN 978-3-937189-40-6 , p. 170.
- ↑ Thomas Mann: The railway accident. In: The Stories. German paperback publisher. Frankfurt 1986, pp. 462-473.
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- ^ Edgar A. Haine: Railroad Wrecks . 1993. ISBN 0-8453-4844-2 . P. 175.
- ↑ Semmens, p. 50.
- ^ Bernhard Püschel: Historical railway catastrophes. A chronicle of accidents from 1840 to 1926 . Freiburg 1977. ISBN 3-88255-838-5 , pp. 117ff. with photo of the accident site: p. 118.
- ↑ Ludwig Stockert : Railway Accidents (New Series) - Another contribution to railway operations theory. Berlin 1920, No. 252.
- ↑ Semmens, p. 55.
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- ^ NN: Chinese Train Smash . In: Daily News v. May 14, 1926; NN: Reuters: Railway Accident in China . In: The Straits Times v. May 14, 1926, p. 9.
- ^ NN: China railway disaster . In: The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser, August 22, 1933.
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- ↑ NN: 200 dead in China rail smash . The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser, May 20, 1938.
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- ↑ Semmens, p. 105.
- ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Masao Saito: Japanese Railway Safety and Technology of the Day ) (PDF; 2.5 MB), p. 8.
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- ↑ NN: Ninety Killed In Train Smash . In: The Straits Times v. June 4, 1946, p. 1.
- ^ NN: May 1946 . In: L'encyclopédie des milliers de termes expliqués. Here the name of the railway company was confused with the destination of the train.
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- ↑ NN: 50 Killed, Scores Hurt In Indian Train Wreck . In The New York Times v. November 24, 1957.
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- ↑ From the English language Wikipedia, there without further evidence .
- ↑ From the English language Wikipedia, there without further evidence .
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- ↑ Associated Press : 80 human fatalities, 100 injuries result in Burma train crash. In: The Victoria Advocate, December 10, 1965.
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- ^ Indian Railways - A political blog .
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- ^ India Railway Board: Report on Indian Railways . 1981, p. 53, gives 49 injuries.
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- ^ NN: Minister of Transport should 'travel incognito' on railway . In: VietnamNet Bridge of November 16, 2011.
- ^ Forum of the Community of Lovers of the Vietnamese Railway System ( Memento of November 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ).
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- ↑ From the English language Wikipedia, there citing a confirmed report by the Indian State Railways, but without further evidence .
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- ^ NN: India train crash: timeline of deadly railway accidents. In: The Telegraph, July 19, 2010.
- ^ Indian Railways - A political blog .
- ^ MF monitor: Indian Railways Likely to Stop Pantry Cars in Trains. Buy Food at Station .
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- ↑ Semmens, p. 222; Memorial and Bedenktage, anniversaries etc. .
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