List of railway accidents in Germany

The list of railway accidents in Germany contains a chronological listing of accidents on the German railways in which the loss of human life was to be mourned, considerable damage was caused or which are worth mentioning for other reasons.

Compared to road traffic, the railway is considered very safe, but accidents cannot be ruled out here either. The Indusi train control system was introduced in Germany from 1934 to avoid collisions. The war-related increased traffic and difficult operating conditions led to increased rail accidents during the two world wars. With the advent of all-steel passenger coaches after the Second World War, passengers are much better protected in the event of collisions than in coaches with wooden superstructures.

The Federal Agency for Railway Accident Investigation (BEU) publishes the results of the accident investigations for events from the year 2000 online on its website.

19th century

Before 1880

Representation of the Jerxheim accident on a tin tray

Railway accidents at the Mainspitze train station in Frankfurt am Main on August 16, 1846

• September 9, 1844 - Jerxheim, Braunschweig : In the Jerxheim railway accident, a passenger train derailed between the Jerxheim and Neuwegersleben stations on the Braunschweig – Oschersleben railway line. A switchman or a railway attendant is said to have not tightened a rail sufficiently. Some passengers were injured.

• January 2, 1846 - Leimen-St. Ilgen, Baden : In the St. Ilgen railway accident , two trains collided on the Mannheim – Karlsruhe line. One person died and 16 others were injured.

• August 16, 1846 - Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen, Free City of Frankfurt : In the railway accidents in the Mainspitze station in Frankfurt am Main, two trains ran over the end of the line one after the other because the engine drivers had braked themselves. One drove into the subsequent bridge construction site. The locomotive and some wagons crashed. The stoker was killed and one passenger was injured.

• January 21, 1851 - Avenwedde, Province of Westphalia, Prussia : In the Avenwedde railway accident, the steam locomotive of an express train derailed, fell down a railway embankment and tore the following four wagons with it, which also derailed. At least three people were killed and the accompanying Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia and seven other people were injured.

• October 28, 1863 - Frankenstein, Palatinate, Bavaria : In the Frankenstein railway accident , a passenger train ran into an approaching freight train. At the end of the freight train there was a baggage car with 50 workers. Seven people died.

• November 1869 - Förnbach, Bavaria . Flying sparks from a steam locomotive caused a major fire in Förnbach ( Munich – Ingolstadt railway line ). Eight residential buildings and a number of farm buildings were destroyed.

• May 30, 1870 (or shortly before) - Murg, Baden : A single locomotive running on the Hochrheinbahn drove unbraked from behind into passenger train No. 22, which had stopped in Murg , and smashed its last three cars. The source suspects that the engine driver was drunk. One woman died and 28 people were injured, eight of them seriously.

• June 21, 1871 - Rackwitz, Saxony : In the Rackwitz railway accident , a passenger train and a locomotive collided on the Trebnitz – Leipzig line. 19 people died and 56 others were injured.

• 1876 ​​- Weidenthal, Pfalz, Bavaria : One person died in a railway accident and several were injured.

1880-1889

The accident at Hugstetten in 1882 was caused by insufficient braking

• September 3, 1882 - Hugstetten, Baden : In the railway accident near Hugstetten on the Breisacher Bahn, a train could no longer be braked, so that it derailed. With 64 fatalities, this was the worst railway accident in the first 100 years of German railway history.

• September 2, 1883 - Berlin-Steglitz, Prussia : In the railway accident in Steglitz , a crowd of people crossed a track on which an express train from Berlin to Magdeburg was passing at the same moment. At least 39 people died.

• November 14, 1884 - Hanau, Hesse-Nassau Province, Prussia : In the Hanau railway accident, a passenger train ran into a freight train because the train was not reported by telegraph. A freight train running in the opposite direction drove into the rubble afterwards. 22 people died and 26 were injured.

• July 1, 1886 - Würzburg, Bavaria : In the Würzburg railway accident , two trains collided head-on between Schweinfurt and Würzburg due to insufficient communication between the dispatcher and a switchman. 18 people died.

• July 7, 1889 - Röhrmoos, Bavaria : In the Röhrmoos railway accident, at an unscheduled intersection at the Röhrmoos station on the Munich – Ingolstadt line, a passing express train hit a stub track and hit a group of parked freight cars. Ten people were killed five more seriously and 19 slightly injured. After the freight wagons were parked, the switch was not reset.

1890-1899

• April 9, 1890 - Frankfurt am Main, Prussia : A train manned by workers from Mörfelden-Walldorf derailed early in the morning near the Goldstein station (today: Frankfurt am Main Stadium ), several cars overturned and wedged. Two passengers died and 68 people were injured, 18 of them seriously.

• May 22, 1891 - Kirchlengern, Westphalia Province, Prussia : In the Kirchlengern railway accident , a passenger train collided with a circus train. Four people died and 15 others were injured.

• September 19, 1895 - Oederan, Saxony : In the Oederan railway accident on the Dresden – Chemnitz railway line, a military train and a passenger train collided. Ten people died and six were injured.

• May 18, 1897 - Pelm, Rhine Province, Prussia : The railway accident at Pelm on the Eifel line was caused by a train separation. The front part of the train was then stopped in Pelm. The separated cars drove on more slowly with the sliding locomotive and hit the stationary part of the train in the fog. Ten people died in the accident and 40 were injured.

• August 14, 1897 - Eschede, Province of Hanover, Prussia : On the Hanover – Hamburg line, D-Train 73 derailed due to a track warping caused by a fallen dome tree. Three people died, 17 were also injured, six of them seriously.

• 13./14. September 1899 - Rohrbach, Bavaria : The central pillar of a bridge over the Isen was washed away during severe floods . When a passenger train drove over the flood bridge , it finally collapsed and tore the entire train into the water. It was only by luck that there were no travelers on the train. Six railway workers were killed.

20th century

1900-1909

Debris from the last car that had an accident in Mühlheim am Main in 1900

• May 15, 1900 - Demmin, Pomerania Province, Prussia : During construction work on a railway bridge over the Peene , it collapsed under the weight of the 214 passenger train because some of the girder bolts had been loosened. The locomotive and tender fell into the water. The chief fitter of the contracted company was killed and six people were also injured.

• October 7, 1900 - Schlierbach, Baden : Accident between the stations Heidelberg Karlstor and Schlierbach with 9 dead and 140 injured, because an unscheduled passenger train stopped on the open route to end the ticket control and another passenger train hit it.

• November 8, 1900 - Mühlheim am Main, Hesse : In the Mühlheim am Main railway accident , a passenger train ran into an express train between the Mühlheim am Main and Offenbach am Main stations. The rubble was ignited by the gas from the lighting and caught fire, resulting in twelve dead and four injured. The accident accelerated the introduction of electric lights in passenger coaches.

• May 9, 1901 - Ludwigshafen, Pfalz, Bavaria : In the railway accident in Ludwigshafen , a locomotive ran over a buffer stop, broke through the front wall of the terminal station and landed in the winter harbor. One dead and two injured were the result.

• November 28, 1901 - Horrem (Kerpen), Rhine Province, Prussia : During the railway attack near Horrem, a passenger train from Verviers to Cologne derailed because a replaced old track had been laid across the track. The attack left four dead and three seriously injured.

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  Locomotive of the Oostende-Wien-Express 1901 in the waiting room of Frankfurt Central Station
  December 6, 1901 - Frankfurt am Main, Hesse-Nassau Province, Prussia : In the railway accident at Frankfurt Central Station at 5 a.m., the locomotive of the Ostend-Vienna Express ran over a buffer and only came to a standstill in the waiting room. Nobody was injured in the almost empty train station.

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  Damaged locomotives after the Altenbeken accident in 1901
  December 20, 1901 - Altenbeken, Westphalia Province, Prussia : The railway accident at Altenbeken on the Hamm – Warburg line was a rear-end collision in which twelve people died. A Cologne – Berlin express train ran over a runaway horse in the open and came to a stop. Another passenger train started up.

• May 5, 1902 - Zschortau, Saxony : The Zschortau railway accident was caused by the breakage of a tender axle on the Munich – Berlin night train. After passing through the station, the tender and three passenger cars derailed. Two travelers, including the Bavarian Reichstag deputy Johann Friedel , were killed and seven people injured.

• November 19, 1902 - Schwarzenfeld, Bavaria : In the Schwarzenfeld railway accident , the D 21 express train ran into a delayed freight train at the Schwarzenfeld station exit on the Regensburg – Hof railway line. Its last four wagons were smashed, two brakemen of the freight train died. The cause was a misunderstood telephone order from the station master to a railway attendant.

• May 29, 1903 - Drebkau, Brandenburg Province, Prussia : During the railway attack near Drebkau, a passenger train derailed on the Grossenhain – Cottbus line after a drunk man had laid a railway sleeper across the track. The locomotive and three following wagons derailed, with the leading wagon completely smashed. One dead and three seriously injured were the result.

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  Narrow gauge locomotive IV K derailed in Rothenkirchen in 1903
  August 17, 1903 - Rothenkirchen, Saxony : In the Rothenkirchen railway accident on the Wilkau – Haßlau – Carlsfeld narrow-gauge railway, the locomotive and twelve passenger cars on the evening train from Rothenkirchen to Wilkau derailed due to excessive speed. He claimed three dead and thirty injured.

• December 2, 1903 - Herbolzheim, Baden : In the Herbolzheim railway accident , an express train crashed head-on into a shunting locomotive at Herbolzheim station. The stoker of the express train was killed.

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  Train derailment in 1905 during the railway construction in Schwegenheim
  May 25, 1905 - Schwegenheim, Palatinate, Bavaria : In the railway accident near Schwegenheim on the Speyer – Neustadt local railway, which was then under construction, a train of material was installed due to excessive speed. The engine driver died and a worker suffered a broken arm.

• July 23, 1905 - Altenbeken : In the railway accident in the Rehberg tunnel , a train drove on the masses of earth that had broken into the Rehberg tunnel . The engine driver died and 12 other people were injured.

• August 4, 1905 - Ingolstadt, Bavaria : The express train D 94 Cologne – Munich derailed in the north station when it was passing a switch at significantly excessive speed. Engine drivers and stokers were killed and 20 other people were injured. Due to a defective distant signal, the train driver wrongly assumed that he could drive the route at undiminished speed.

• August 7, 1905 - Spremberg, Brandenburg Province, Prussia : The Spremberg railway accident was a head-on collision between the Berlin-Hirschberg express train (now Jelenia Góra, Poland) and its return train after a mistake by a dispatcher under the influence of alcohol. 19 people died. In the same year, alcohol consumption on duty was banned.

• May 1, 1906 - Regenstauf, Bavaria : In the Regenstauf railway accident , the D 21 train ran into a freight train due to an incorrectly set switch, which it was supposed to overtake. A prominent passenger of the train was Thomas Mann, who processed the events in the story The Railway Accident.
• December 29 or 30, 1906 - Kalscheuren, Province of the Grand Duchy of Lower Rhine, Prussia : The Vienna-Ostend Express crashed into a freight train because the locomotive driver ran over a signal indicating “stop” due to fog.

• December 30, 1906 - Ottersberg, Province of Hanover, Prussia : The night express train Hamburg – Cologne ran into a shunting freight train in the Ottersberg railway accident because the engine driver ran a signal showing "stop" due to fog.

• May 1, 1907 - Spandau, Province of Brandenburg, Prussia : Two passengers were killed when a freight train collided with a railcar of the Spandau tram , the railcar was completely smashed and later rebuilt.

• September 3, 1907 - Rehfelde, Brandenburg Province, Prussia : During the railway assassination attempt near Rehfelde, the Insterburg – Berlin express train derailed after an unknown person had loosened the rail bolts. Escaping gas ignited in the dining car, which burned out completely. One traveler was burned and eight people injured.

• October 31, 1907 - Brohltalbahn , Rhine Province, Prussia : In the railway accident in Oberzissen, a freight train traveling down the valley with passenger transport derailed and fell down a railway embankment. Five people died and six were seriously injured.

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  After the collision of two elevated railway trains in Berlin in 1908 at the Gleisdreieck junction, a wagon fell down
  September 26, 1908 - Berlin-Kreuzberg, Prussia : In the underground accident at Gleisdreieck , two trains ran across the flank due to disregard of a signal at the Gleisdreieck underground station. A car fell from eight meters into the square below. 17 people died and 18 were seriously injured.

• October 28, 1908 - Stuttgart, Wuerttemberg : In the railway accident in Stuttgart , the delayed D 38 from Berlin to Zurich ran over the buffer stop and only came to a stop in the rail post office. An employee was injured there.

• October 28, 1909 - Züllichau, Brandenburg Province, Prussia (today Sulechów, Poland): In the Züllichau railway accident , freight train 540 traveled the Züllichau – Wollstein (Wolsztyn) line and hit a car on a level crossing. It is the earliest collision between a motor vehicle and a train with fatalities documented in the literature.

1910-1919

• March 30, 1910 - Cologne-Mülheim, Rhine Province, Prussia : A military train and a Lloyd Express collided in the Cologne-Mülheim railway accident . 22 people died and 56 were injured.

• July 17, 1911 - Müllheim, Baden : During the railway accident in Müllheim , D-Train 9 drove from Milan to Berlin at extremely high speed to a construction site in Müllheim station and derailed because the engine driver had previously drunk large quantities of wine and beer. 14 dead and 32, some seriously injured, were the result.

Railway accident in Weidenthal, 1912

• 1912 - Weidenthal, Pfalz, Bavaria : One person died in a railway accident and several were injured.

• October 22, 1913 - Waldenburg, Province of Silesia, Prussia (today Wałbrzych, Poland): In the railway accident in Waldenburg , a freight car escaped in a violent storm and crashed into a Waldenburg tram train at a level crossing. 14 people died.

• December 14, 1913 - Braunsdorf, Saxony : In the railway accident in Braunsdorf , a passenger train drove on the Roßwein – Niederwiesa railway line in debris that had buried the south portal of the Harra tunnel. Some of the wagons interlocked and were completely smashed, so that ten people lost their lives.

• December 28, 1915 - Bentschen, Province of Posen, Prussia (today Zbąszyń, Poland): In the Bentschen railway accident, a holiday train coming from Berlin derailed while driving through the station due to excessive speed. 23 people died and 47 were injured.

• October 8, 1916 - Landsberg an der Warthe, Brandenburg Province, Prussia (today Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland): In the Landsberg (Warthe) railway accident , the D 24 from Eydtkuhnen to Berlin drove to its advantage, which was damaged by a locomotive at Landsberg (Warthe ) remained lying. Twelve people died in the accident and 15 others were injured.

• November 11, 1916 - Berlin-Rahnsdorf, Prussia : In the railway accident in Rahnsdorf, a group of distracted track workers failed to hear the warning signal for an approaching train in poor visibility through fog and were run over. 19 women were killed.

• April 17, 1917 - Mammendorf, Bavaria : In the Nannhofen railway accident on the Munich – Augsburg railway line, an express train drove sideways into a passenger freight train when there was a snowstorm. 30 people died. The Bavarian State Railways used white light instead of a green light for the travel permit. Because of the poor visibility, the engine driver confused the red signal with the lighting of the oncoming train.

• October 16, 1917 - Schönhausen (Elbe), Province of Saxony, Prussia : In the railway accident at Schönhausen on the Berlin – Lehrte line, a special train with 250 children on their way home from a recreational stay ran over the entry signal and hit the Schönhausen train station a freight train. 25 children and a conductor died, 16 other people were injured.

• November 11, 1917 - Düren, Rhine Province, Prussia : In the railway accident in Düren, the locomotive driver of an express train ignored a signal indicating a “stop”, hit a front vacationer train and smashed its last two wagons. 19 dead and a further 36 injured, according to other sources 23 dead and 30 injured, were the result

• December 3, 1917 - Heessen, Westphalia Province, Prussia : In the Heessen railway accident on the Hamm – Minden railway line, a clutch broke in a train carrying Italian prisoners of war. Since the missing train end signal was ignored, the block section was released after passing the front part of the train. An express train drove into the group of cars that had been left behind and derailed, a freight train drove into the rubble. 36 people died, 35 of them Italians, 45 were injured.

• January 7, 1918 - Bruchmühlbach, Palatinate, Bavaria : In the case of the Bruchmühlbach railway accident on the Palatinate Ludwigsbahn, a holiday train drove onto a freight train in heavy snow. The information on the number of victims varies. Some sources name 33 dead and 121 injured, others twelve dead and 87 injured.

• January 16, 1918 - Bohmte and Osnabrück, Province of Hanover, Prussia : In the railway accident at Bohmte and Osnabrück , an express train and a vacationer train with soldiers collided on the Wanne-Eickel-Hamburg line between Bohmte and Osnabrück. 31 people died and 66 were injured.

• January 16, 1918 - Kirn, Rhine Province, Prussia : In the railway accident in Kirn, a holiday train derailed because the embankment was washed away by a storm. The locomotive and four carriages fell into the close . 38 people died and 25 others were injured.

• February 7, 1918 - Sandersleben, Anhalt : In the railway accident in Sandersleben , the coupling between two cars broke on a military train between Sandersleben and Güsten. The rear part of the train rolled downhill and collided in front of the Sandersleben station with a freight train that was traveling from Halle to Aschersleben. 18 people died and 35 were injured.

In the 1918 rail accident at Gutach, parts of the train were thrown away by the explosions

• May 24, 1918 - Gutach (Black Forest Railway ), Baden : In the railway accident in Gutach (Black Forest Railway) an ammunition train exploded, which was stopped because of a hot runner. The staff was able to flee and was not harmed, and a neighboring farm burned down.

• July 30, 1918 - Zantoch, Province of Brandenburg, Prussia (today Santok, Poland): In the Zantoch railway accident on the Prussian Eastern Railway, the breaking piston rod of a steam locomotive damaged the track in the opposite direction that the D 22 was currently traveling on. The express train derailed, five of its wagons were thrown against the freight train and caught fire. At least 40 people died and 43 were injured.

• August 16, 1918 - Dümpelfeld, Rhine Province, Prussia : In the railway accident in Dümpelfeld , a passenger train collided with a military train on the Ahr Valley Railway. 31 people died and 73 others were injured.

• September 11, 1918 - Schneidemühl, Province of Posen, Prussia (today Piła, Poland): In the railway accident at Schneidemühl on the Prussian Eastern Railway, a freight train collided with a special train that was carrying children. 35 people died and 18 others were injured.

• September 22, 1918 - Dresden-Neustadt, Saxony : In the railway accident in Dresden-Neustadt , a color-blind locomotive driver ran over a red signal on his express train from Leipzig to Dresden and drove onto the stationary express train from Berlin to Dresden. The four rearmost cars coming from Berlin were smashed and caught fire. At least 18 people died and a further 118 were injured.

• October 9, 1918 - Jünkerath, Rhine Province, Prussia : In the Jünkerath railway accident , a military train and a passenger train collided on the Eifel route. 16 people lost their lives and 28 were injured.

• November 1, 1918 - Briesen (Mark), Brandenburg Province, Prussia : In the Briesen railway accident , a military holiday train drove east of the Briesen station onto freight wagons that had stopped after the train had separated on the Frankfurt (Oder) –Berlin line. At least 19 people died.

• November 4, 1918 - Bous (Saar), Rhine Province, Prussia : The railway accident in Bous (Saar) caused an explosion and fire in a passenger train between Völklingen and Bous. 14 people died and 13 others were injured.

• October 24, 1919 - Kranowitz, Province of Upper Silesia, Prussia (today Krzanowice, Poland): In the Kranowitz railway accident at the former German border station at Kranowitz, a passenger train coming from Czechoslovakia hit the flank of a freight train locomotive that had moved too far. A fire that broke out quickly spread on the train. The number of dead was given between 25 and 60 and that of injured between 80 and 130.

• November 10, 1919 - Neumühl-Kutzdorf, Brandenburg Province, Prussia (today Namyślin, Poland): In the Neumühl-Kutzdorf railway accident on the Breslau (Wrocław) –Stettin (Szczecin) railway line, a freight train drove into a shunting group. 45 people died and 18 were injured.

• November 18, 1919 - Schrebitz , Free State of Saxony , Amtshauptmannschaft Oschatz : In the railway accident from Schrebitz on the small railway line Oschatz-Mügeln-Döbeln , there is a collision between the passenger train 5750 from Mügeln and the freight train 10889 coming from Gärtitz due to drifting snow and over-ice rails the force of the impact sets the passenger train in motion backwards, then derails on a bridge and falls into the depths. There were five dead and 15 seriously injured.

1920-1929

• January 20, 1920 - Schneidemühl, Province of Posen-West Prussia, Prussia (now Piła, Poland): In the railway assassination attempt at Schneidemühl , three perpetrators loosened the screws on the rails and derailed a freight train. A subsequent express train drove into the rubble. The attack left 18 dead and 20 injured. The assassins were caught.

• December 16, 1920 - Silberhausen, Province of Saxony, Prussia : In the railway accident in Silberhausen , a train of the Silberhausen – Hüpstedt small railway got out of control, ran over the buffer stop in the Silberhausen terminus and fell from the embankment. 17 people died.

Railway assassination during the March fighting

• March 16, 1921 - Ammendorf, Province of Saxony, Prussia : In the railway assassination attempt near Ammendorf , left-wing radical workers loosened the track fastenings of the Thuringian Railway during the March fighting, whereupon two freight trains derailed and three railway workers died. In the aftermath of the March fighting, an express train between Leipzig and Halle was derailed on May 16, 1921, killing five people.

• June 27, 1922 - Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg, Prussia : In the railway accident at Berlin Schönhauser Allee , numerous passengers on the outside on the running boards of a train with compartment cars of the Berlin Ringbahn fell off the train. At least 45 people were killed.

Debris from derailed vehicles on the Wendelsteinbahn

• August 22, 1922 - Wendelsteinbahn, Bavaria : A Wendelsteinbahn locomotive derailed in the gallery in the “Raindlerkessel”. The following cars crashed into the overturned motor vehicle. One passenger died and around 30 people were injured.

• 1923 to 1924 - Ruhr area, occupied by France and Belgium : During the Ruhr occupation , there were a large number of rail accidents and assassinations. The French and Belgian railway workers commissioned with the operation of the railway were not familiar with German vehicle and safety technology and put it out of service in many places.
  → Main article: Regiebetrieb (railway) with a list of accidents
  → Section Allied occupation of the Rhineland 1923 to 1924 in the article List of attacks in rail traffic with a list of assassinations
  • February 8, 1923 - Kettwig, Rhine Province, Prussia : In the Kettwig railway accident , two military trains of the French occupying forces collided between Düsseldorf and Kettwig. 28 people died.
  • February 15, 1923 - Bochum-Dahlhausen, Westphalia Province, Prussia : When a locomotive train consisting of five locomotives collided with a military train in Bochum-Dahlhausen , two people died and eleven were injured.
  • February 18, 1923 - Bochum-Dahlhausen, Westphalia province, Prussia : The collision of two trains driven by the French military, one of which was on the wrong track, claimed five lives and ten injured.
  • March 17, 1923 - Friemersheim, Rhine Province, Prussia : During the railway accident in Friemersheim , a locomotive collided with a military train on the Duisburg-Ruhrort-Mönchengladbach railway line due to sabotage. 40 people died and a large number were injured.
  • March 31, 1923 - Gerolstein, Rhine Province, Prussia : When two trains run by the French military collide, eleven people die in Gerolstein .
  • May 9, 1923 - Sankt Goar, Rhine Province, Prussia : In the railway accident in Sankt Goar, a passenger train derailed and crashed into the Rhine. At least 29 people drowned.
  • June 19, 1923 - Herne, Westphalia Province, Prussia : Two French citizens are killed in a shunting accident in the Crange district .
  • June 30, 1923 - Duisburg, Rhine Province, Prussia : During the railway assassination attempt near Duisburg , a time fuse exploded in a Belgian military train as the train crossed the Rhine near Duisburg. Eight dead and many injured were mourned.
  • July 13, 1923 - Bochum, Westphalia province, Prussia : 80 freight wagons run away on a downward slope, derail and end up as a heap of rubble in Bochum North .
  • July 30, 1923 - Kaiserslautern, Pfalz, Bavaria : A freight train runs over a buffer stop in the Einsiedlerhof marshalling yard . One railroad worker dies, two others are injured and 16 wagons are damaged, some seriously.
  • November 2, 1923 - Bad Godesberg, Rhine Province, Prussia : A head-on collision between two freight trains in the Bad Godesberg freight yard resulted in one fatality and several injuries.
  • January 21, 1924 - Darmstadt, People's State of Hesse : In Darmstadt , 28 people are injured during a flank journey .
  • October 1, 1924 - Mainz, People's State of Hesse : In the Mainz railway accident, a passenger train crashed into the stationary Cologne – Basel express train in the Mainz tunnel because the line block had been disabled. 14 people died.

• July 31, 1923 - Kreiensen, Province of Hanover, Prussia : In the Kreiensen railway accident , the Hamburg – Munich express train pulled up at Kreiensen station, which had broken down due to a machine failure. 48 people were killed and 39 others were injured. The later Nobel Prize winner Gerhard Domagk had left the train shortly before the collision.

• September 6, 1923 - Hanover-Lohnde, Province of Hanover, Prussia : In the Lohnde railway accident, the Berlin – Cologne express train ran into the Leipzig – Amsterdam express train at Seelze-Lohnde after a block attendant made a mistake. 18 people died and 19 were injured.

A crashed freight car hit a residential building in Ludwigsstadt.

• November 15, 1923 - Untertürkheim, Württemberg : In the Untertürkheim railway accident , a locomotive collided head-on with a passenger train in the Untertürkheim station because a signal was disregarded. Twelve people were killed and 15 others were injured.

• February 18, 1924 - Ludwigsstadt, Bavaria : In the railway accident in Ludwigsstadt, a freight train derailed after a brake failure and crashed from the Trogenbach Bridge onto residential buildings in Ludwigsstadt. Two people died.

• January 13, 1925 - Herne, Westphalia Province, Prussia : In the Herne railway accident , the D 10 Berlin – Cologne express train collided with the Dortmund – Wanne passenger train at the Herne station. 24 people died. After the occupation of the Ruhr and the return of the systems, the Deutsche Reichsbahn built in a great hurry new train protection systems that did not work properly.

• August 9, 1925 - Wernberg, Bavaria : In the Wernberg railway accident , D-Zug 21 ran into a freight train after ignoring a signal on the Regensburg – Oberkotzau railway line between Wernberg and Luhe. Three people died and 13 were injured.

• May 24, 1926 - Munich, Bavaria : In the railway accident in Munich East , a passenger train coming from Berchtesgaden stopped in front of a closed entry signal. The signal covering it showed free travel due to a mechanical error, although it had been set to "Stop". 30 people lost their lives when a following train caught the stationary train.

Salvage work after the 1926 railway attack near Leiferde.

• August 13, 1926 - Langenbach, Bavaria : In the Langenbach railway accident, the 858 accelerated passenger train derailed at the entrance to Langenbach station on the Munich – Regensburg line. Twelve people died.

• August 19, 1926 - Leiferde, Province of Hanover, Prussia : During the railway attack near Leiferde , the perpetrators derailed the Berlin – Amsterdam night express train with the intention of robbing its rail mail car. 21 deaths were the result. This was the most momentous attack on rail traffic in Germany to date.

• November 18, 1926 - Maxau, Baden : French soldiers guarding the Rhine bridge in Maxau put planks on the rails. A railway official discovered the obstacle in good time, which prevented an accident.

• July 6, 1927 - Thumkuhlental, Province of Saxony, Prussia : Due to heavy rain, an embankment of the Harzquerbahn at the Thumkuhlental bridge was washed away. The leading Mallet locomotive No. 12 , the baggage car and the following passenger car fell down the embankment. The engine driver initiated an emergency brake, whereby the other cars remained on the track. The accident left six people dead and 28 injured.

• February 4, 1928 - Groß Gerau − Dornberg, Hesse : Freight train 6652 derailed and a car caught fire.

• April 26, 1928 - Friedrichsfeld, Wesel, Rhine Province, Prussia : During the night on the Wesel-Dinslaken railway line, an express freight train ran into a freight train shortly before Friedrichfeld. The last two wagons of the freight train were pushed together and piled high, the following ones pushed into one another. The express freight train's machine was badly damaged and derailed. The final brake on the freight train was seriously injured.

• June 10, 1928 - Siegelsdorf, Bavaria : In the railway accident at Siegelsdorf, the night express train D 47 from Munich to Dortmund derailed at the western exit of the Siegelsdorf station on the Nuremberg – Würzburg railway line. 24 people died.

Derailed passenger car after the 1928 accident near Ummendorf.

• June 23, 1928 - Ummendorf near Biberach, Württemberg : In the railway accident near Ummendorf, an express train derailed due to excessive speed in a construction site, injuring 31 people.

Accident site in 1928 at the Donnersbergerbrücke in Munich.

• July 15, 1928 - Munich, Bavaria : The railway accident at the Donnersbergerbrücke was a rear-end collision when leaving the main train station in Munich, followed by a fire on the crashed trains. Ten people were killed.

• July 31, 1928 - Dinkelscherben, Bavaria : The Dinkelscherben railway accident was a rear-end collision between two trains, caused by a point and signal malfunction. 23 people were killed.

• August 25, 1929 - Buir, Rhine Province, Prussia : In the Buir railway accident, the express train Paris – Warsaw derailed shortly before the Buir station on the Cologne – Aachen line when it drove over a turning point at excessive speed. The engine driver was not correctly informed about the entry into a passing track. 13 travelers were killed and 40 injured. As a result of the accident, the lists of temporary speed limits and the three-aspect distant signal were introduced.

1930-1939

• Mid 1930 - Nerdin, Mecklenburg . When three elephants from Circus Hagenbeck were transported on the Mecklenburg-Pomerania Narrow Gauge Railway (MPSB) in one open freight car, one of these cars derailed in a curve near Nerdin . The cause of the accident was suspected to be excessive movement of the elephant.

• August 8, 1931 - Jüterbog, Brandenburg Province, Prussia : The railroad bomber Sylvester Matuska blew up a piece of rail under the locomotive of the express train D 43 Basel-Berlin near Jüterbog, whereupon the train derailed and 82 people were injured.

• December 24, 1935 - Großheringen, Thuringia : During the railway accident in Großheringen , an express train ran into the flank of a passenger train in the entrance area of ​​the station on the Saale bridge. Because the engine driver of the express train's tensioning machine was distracted and overlooked a signal indicating a stop, 34 people died.

• January 5, 1937 - Rüsselsheim, Hesse : On the Rhein-Main-Bahn , south of Rüsselsheim, a fully occupied bus collided with the empty train Lp 4704 on a barrier level crossing in the area of ​​the block station Schönauer Hof (today: L 3012) fell asleep and the barrier system was not closed. One passenger on the bus died.

• September 5, 1937 - Holzheim (Neuss), Rhine Province : In the Holzheim railway accident, a train carrying pilgrims derailed on the Düren – Neuss railway line. 18 people died. After construction work, the railway foreman had removed the signals for the speed reduction, although the track was not yet sufficiently stable.

• June 5, 1938 - Nesselwang, Bavaria: A coach collides with a passenger train at an open level crossing. 7 people died and 8 were seriously injured.
• March 16, 1939 - Müncheberg, Brandenburg : In the railway accident in Müncheberg , an express train and a passenger train collided head-on because of a defective block device and an illegally issued order. The driver of the passenger train was killed and 66 people injured, some seriously.

• June 4, 1939 - Buchholz, Nordheide : In the Buchholz railway accident , two trains collided on the main Hamburg – Bremen line. 15 people died and 23 were injured.

In 1938 the Austrian Federal Railways were taken over by the Deutsche Reichsbahn. Railway accident in St. Valentin in Lower Austria in 1939.

• October 8, 1939 - Berlin-Gesundbrunnen, Berlin : In the railway accident in Berlin Gesundbrunnen , the engine driver of an express train ran over a closed signal and hit a passenger train. 23 people died and 31 were injured.

• October 25, 1939 - St. Valentin, Reichsgau Lower Austria : In the railway accident in St. Valentin, an express train derailed on a switch due to excessive speed. The accident left 17 dead, including the famous surgeon Anton von Eiselsberg and eight members of the German armed forces.

• November 12, 1939 - Bauerwitz, Silesia (today Baborów, Poland): In the Bauerwitz railway accident , two passenger trains collided head-on near Bauerwitz. 48 people died.

• December 1, 1939 - Witten, Westphalia : Two trains collided in the Witten railway accident , killing 15 people and injuring 17 people.

• December 12, 1939 - Hagen, Westphalia : In the railway accident at Hagen-Vorhalle, two passenger trains collided between the Hagen-Vorhalle and Wetter (Ruhr) stations due to faulty dispatchers and signal boxes. 15 people died and 36 were injured.

Railway accident near Markdorf in 1939 on the Bodenseegürtelbahn.

• December 22, 1939 - Genthin, Saxony-Anhalt : In the Genthin railway accident , the Berlin – Neunkirchen (Saar) express train ran over a closed signal in fog and hit the D 10 Berlin – Cologne at about 90 km / h, which was due to a Misunderstanding had persisted. In the most serious railway accident in Germany to date, 186 people died and 453 were injured.

• December 22, 1939 - Markdorf, Baden : In the railway accident near Markdorf , a freight train and a fully occupied passenger train collided head-on on the Lake Constance belt railway near Markdorf in heavy fog. The accident claimed 101 lives and 47 injured.

1940-1949

• January 17, 1940 - Zittau, Saxony : Two trains collided in the Zittau railway accident . Twelve people died and 20 others were injured.

• Feb. 5, 1940 - Cloppenburg, Oldenburg : Two trains collided in the Cloppenburg railway accident , killing 11 people and injuring 31.

• November 16, 1940 - Carzig, Brandenburg : In the Carzig railway accident between Eberswalde and Frankfurt (Oder), a through freight train collided head-on with an early train. The locomotive driver of the freight train ignored the exit signal indicating the stop. The accident left nine dead and 21 injured.

• January 22, 1941 - Gifhorn, Hanover : In the Gifhorn railway accident , a freight train at Isenbüttel-Gifhorn station crashed into an unscheduled standing train of the Wehrmacht with around 1000 Belgian prisoners of war. 122 people were killed and 80 seriously injured.

• February 28, 1941 - Wilhelmshaven, Lower Saxony : Two trains collided in the Wilhelmshaven railway accident . 21 people died and 28 were injured.

• April 12, 1941 - Breitenbach, Hesse : A train of the Kassel-Naumburg Railway derailed in Breitenbach due to a broken rail and fell down an embankment. Seven people were seriously injured and six cars were seriously damaged.

• May 3, 1941 - Gusow, Brandenburg : In the Gusow railway accident on the Prussian Eastern Railway, a shunting drive drove an approaching train into the flank, resulting in 16 dead and 45 seriously injured.

• December 27, 1941 - Leichholz, Brandenburg (today Drzewce, Poland): In the Leichholz railway accident on the Frankfurt (Oder) –Posen (Poznań) railway line, an express train ran into a tank car train that had come to a standstill due to a train separation. The gasoline carried on the freight train exploded and 44 people died.

• December 29, 1941 - Langhagen, Mecklenburg : In the Langhagen railway accident, a Wehrmacht train ran into two locomotives at Langhagen station on the Rostock – Warnemünde route because of an incorrectly set switch. 27 people were killed and 33 injured.

• February 3, 1942 - Kohlfurt, Silesia (today Węgliniec, Poland): In the railway accident in Kohlfurt , an overheated cannon furnace exploded in the crew car of a military train between Kohlfurt and Arnsdorf (Miłkowice). 20 people died and 15 were injured.

• June 24, 1942 - Werbig, Brandenburg : In the Werbig railway accident on the Prussian Eastern Railway, an unmanned locomotive ran into a passenger train that was stopped. Ten dead and 23 injured were mourned.

• October 16, 1942 - Bad Cannstatt, Württemberg : in the railway accident in Bad Cannstatt , a passenger train coming from Waiblingen was forgotten in front of the closed entrance signal of the station due to a disturbed operating situation. When the following passenger train approached Bad Cannstatt on the same track, the dispatcher intervened in the block, which resulted in a rear-end collision with twelve fatalities and 268 injuries.

• December 15, 1942 - Senden, Bavaria : In Senden , the steam locomotive 38 468 collided with the oncoming steam locomotive 86 255 while traveling with a passenger train on the Ulm - Kempten railway line. The collision caused considerable material damage to the two locomotives and the surrounding track systems.

• January 4, 1943 - Wunstorf, Hanover : In the Wunstorf railway accident on the Hanover – Minden railway line, the engine driver of an express train for front vacationers in front of Wunstorf overlooked a signal indicating a stop in heavy snowstorms and drove onto the express train D8. 25 people died and 169 were injured.

• January 31, 1943 - Tantow, Brandenburg : In the Tantow railway accident, an express train for front vacationers crashed into two locomotives at the Tantow station on the Berlin – Stettin line (Szczecin) after dispatcher and shunting errors. 38 people died and 16 were injured.

• June 30, 1943 - Dortmund, Westphalia : In the railway accident in Dortmund , the express train D 24 ran into a passenger train after a mistake by the dispatcher. 28 people died and 90 were injured.

• December 2, 1943 - Naumburg, Saxony : In the Naumburg railway accident , an express train for front vacationers (SFR) crashed into the other SFR after ignoring a closed signal when the Indusi was switched off. 35 people died and 123 were injured.

• January 6, 1944 - Warthausen, Wuerttemberg : In the railway accident in Warthausen , a passenger train running from Friedrichshafen to Ulm ran over a signal showing "stop". Then he drove a crossing train of the narrow-gauge railway Biberach an der Riss-Ochsenhausen in the southern part of the station Warthausen in the flank. Twelve people died and more were injured.

• January 18, 1944 - Müncheberg, Brandenburg : In a railway accident in Müncheberg on the Prussian Eastern Railway, the dispatcher accidentally cleared the entrance of a 40-minute late express train, which then hit a stationary passenger train at full speed. The accident claimed 56 lives and 159 seriously and slightly injured people.

• January 20, 1944 - Porta, Westphalia : In the railway accident at the Porta Westfalica , an express train with Wehrmacht part Aachen – Berlin hit the express train D 3 Cologne – Berlin, which had stopped due to an emergency braking, not far from the Porta station. 79 people died, 64 were injured, some seriously.

• October 4, 1944 - Köppern, Nassau : The train No. 2021 from Frankfurt to Usingen was attacked by low-flying aircraft shortly before entering Köppern . 31 people died.

• November 11, 1944 - Neu-Isenburg, Hesse , railway accident on platform 3, several deaths including the driver.

• November 23, 1944 - Wiesau, Bavaria : In the Wiesau railway accident , the 6395 freight train loaded with 400 prisoners from the Flossenbürg concentration camp collided with another train near Wiesau . The prisoners were to be taken to the Leitmeritz satellite camp for forced labor in a secret armaments factory (cover name Richard I ). 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.

• November 24, 1944 - Barwałd Średni, Generalgouvernement : In the Barwałd Średni railway accident , a passenger train from Zakopane to Krakow collided with a German military train in Barwałd Średni near Wadowice. More than 130 passengers, soldiers and the crews of the locomotives died, 100 to 200 others were injured.

• November 28, 1944 - Friedrichsaue, Brandenburg : In the Friedrichsaue railway accident between Fürstenwalde and Wriezen in heavy fog, a railcar and a local freight train collided head-on. At least two people lost their lives. The train driver of the railcar set the points for entry and exit without the consent of the train registration office.

• December 27, 1944 - Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg station : A military train that came down the Inclined Plane from Marktschorgast station could not brake sufficiently and derailed at Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg station . The exact cause remained unknown. The train was hauled by locomotive 58 2813. In the accident the stoker, the train driver and a NCO were killed. There were also several seriously and slightly injured people.

• January 5, 1945 - Edenkoben station : In an air raid on the station, a train loaded with ammunition was hit and exploded. The historic station building was destroyed.

• January 14, 1945 - Eschwege West station : While an express train pulled by locomotive 01 1067 was leaving the Eschwege West station in the direction of Bebra, the number 56 820 crashed into the flank. At least two people died. Both locomotives were so badly damaged that they could no longer be repaired. Passenger cars were also damaged.

• March 31, 1945 - Geseke, Westphalia : In the Verne railway accident , a construction train filled with refugees from the Ruhr area crashed into two stationary locomotives near the destroyed Verne block on the Hamm – Warburg railway line. At least seven people died. The accident was primarily caused by the chaos of the final days of World War II.

• March 31, 1945 - Waldkappel, North Hesse : An ammunition train exploded during the air raid on Waldkappel . 17 people died.

• April 20, 1945 - Fahlenbach, Bavaria . 42 German soldiers died in an air raid on railway wagons near Fahlenbach , all of them at the age of 16.

• May 8, 1945 - Munich-Berg am Laim, Bavaria : In the Berg am Laim railway accident, parts of a train that had loaded ammunition exploded in the Munich East marshalling yard in the Berg am Laim district of Munich. Eleven people died.

• May 28, 1945 - Bad Aibling, Bavaria : In a railway accident in Bad Aibling , a military train manned by soldiers and an empty train collided on the single-track Holzkirchen – Rosenheim line between Bad Aibling station and Kolbermoor station. Five people died in the accident.

• July 16, 1945 - Aßling, Bavaria : The Aßling railway accident was a rear-end collision on the Munich – Rosenheim railway line between today's Aßling and Grafing near Elkofen stations. A US Army freight train loaded with tanks crashed into a train carrying prisoners of war. At least 102 people died.

• August 13, 1945 - Goch, North Rhine Province : In the Goch railway accident , two trains collided head-on. The accident claimed 21 lives.

• December 4, 1945 - Neddemin, State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania : The Neddemin railway accident on the Berlin Northern Railway was a head-on collision caused by the precarious operating conditions immediately after the Second World War and a dispatcher error. 38 passengers and railway workers died, 68 were injured.

• April 16, 1946 - Eisleben, Province of Saxony-Anhalt : In the Eisleben railway accident , a work train carrying soldiers from the Soviet Army, who were tasked with dismantling the second track on the Halle – Eisleben line, collided with a passenger train waiting in front of the entry signal. A difficult operational situation and instructions from the soldiers were responsible for the accident, which left 24 dead and numerous injured.

• November 1, 1946 - Tröglitz, Province of Saxony-Anhalt : In the Tröglitz railway accident , a train carrying resettlers was accidentally directed onto a dead end at Tröglitz station. The train ran over the bumper and derailed. 30 people died and 23 others were injured.

• 22 February 1947 - Datteln, North Rhine-Westphalia : As a result of signal disregard it came in Datteln to edge ride the Nahgüterzugs 9140 against the passenger 2505. The accident claimed three lives and 29 injured.

• April 17, 1947 - Oetzen, Lower Saxony : As a result of fog, the freight train with passenger transport 8523 in Oetzen drove past the switchboard and subsequently collided with the passenger train 962. There were four dead and 42 injured.

• 23 August 1947 - Velten, State of Brandenburg : In the Velten railway accident , highly flammable material that travelers were carrying in their hand luggage caught fire. 24 people died, 35 were also injured.

• September 11, 1947 - Husby, Schleswig-Holstein : The passenger train 1207 drove in Husby , as a result of the mistakenly given entry into an occupied track, on the freight train with passenger transport 2192 stopped there. Five people died and 27 were injured.

• December 12, 1947 - Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein : The passenger train 1353 coming from Husum drove on the freight train with passenger transport 9345 stopped in front of the entrance signal of the Flensburg train station due to a fault in the service. There were five dead and nine injured.

Search parties after the tank car explosion at BASF.

• December 22, 1947 - Neuwied, Rhineland-Palatinate : Two express trains collided head- on in the Neuwied railway accident . A locomotive and three passenger cars fell down a railway embankment, killing 42 people and injuring 116 people. Inadequate operating conditions in the post-war period led to signal interference.

• January 9, 1948 - Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia : The 7303 through freight train drove to the 9658 local goods train in Münster due to a fault in the service. Four people died.

• March 6, 1948 - Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate : A shunting locomotive disregarded a track blocking signal in Koblenz and therefore drove the approaching Bielefeld – Koblenz express train into the flank. There were two dead and 13 injured.

• July 21, 1948 - Kissing, Bavaria : Due to the premature closure of the route, a switch could be moved under the 257 express train in Kissing . As a result, three cars on the express train from Munich to Frankfurt derailed. There were two dead and seven injured.

• July 28, 1948 - Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Rhineland-Palatinate : An overheated tank car exploded in a tank car explosion at BASF . 207 people were killed, 3,818 injured and 3,122 buildings damaged.

• November 22, 1948 - Cochem, Rhineland-Palatinate : In the railway accident in the Kaiser Wilhelm Tunnel , a coal dust explosion set fire to the driver's cab of the steam locomotive on the Paris – Koblenz express train. The thoughtful action of the seriously injured locomotive driver averted a disaster. None of the passengers were harmed.

• December 5, 1948 - Bissendorf, Lower Saxony : The passenger train 1475 in Bissendorf received a shunting order from the dispatcher in accordance with the regulations, but this was understood by the train staff as a departure order. As a result, train 1475 collided with the incoming passenger train 1476 in thick fog. There were six dead and 59 injured.

• August 8, 1949 - Leverkusen-Schlebusch, North Rhine-Westphalia : In the Schlebusch railway accident , D-Zug 99 hit a truck that was carrying holiday children at a level crossing. Although the barriers had already closed, the truck driver tried to cross the level crossing. 18 people died and twelve were injured.

• 29 November 1949 - Lower Lahnstein, Rhineland-Palatinate : As a result of omitted communication between dispatchers and drivers of water-making locomotive thrust into Niederlahnstein the durchgangsgüterzug from Neuried with the pre-deployed water Grasp Lok together. The empty wagon freight train traveling in the opposite direction drove into the rubble. There was one dead and three injured.

1950-1959

In 1950 Tuffy , a young elephant, jumped from the Wuppertal suspension railway into the Wupper.

• February 3, 1950 - Garding, Schleswig-Holstein : Under the arriving passenger train 1390 in Garding a switch was changed due to premature route closure. Two cars derailed and one of them overturned. There were four dead and two injured.

• April 20, 1950 - Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate : At the junction in front of the Horchheimer railway bridge in Koblenz , the coke train from Wedau to Ehrang crossed a signal. The locomotive and three wagons derailed on the next guard track. There were three dead and one injured.

• July 12, 1950 - Zwickau / Aue, State of Saxony : Both dispatchers who monitored the two sides of the single-track section in Zwickau and Aue let a freight train and a passenger train enter the section. 20 people died in the collision and 50 were also injured.

• July 21, 1950 - Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia : The suspension railway accident in Wuppertal in 1950 was curious . The Althoff Circus used the suspension railway for a ride with a young elephant as a circus advertisement. The animal became nervous, broke through a window and jumped out of the vehicle about ten meters down into the Wupper. The elephant was practically uninjured, but panic had broken out in the car and some were injured.

• Jan. 24, 1951 - Must - Schleswig-Holstein : In fog, the driver of passenger train 3880 disregarded the stopping position of the exit signal in Must and collided with the passing through freight train 7505. There were four dead and 54 injured.

• May 4, 1951 - Meiningen, State of Thuringia : When the boiler cracked in the Reichsbahn repair shop in Meiningen , a steam boiler exploded due to a missing test manometer and insufficient agreements. Eleven people were killed, the steam locomotive and the heating house were destroyed. It was one of the worst accidents of its kind.

• June 10, 1951 - Kenn, Rhineland-Palatinate : In the railway accident at Kenn , a train of the Moselle Railway hit a bus at a confusing, unbarred level crossing. 15 people died, 20 people were seriously injured.

• June 19, 1951 - Herrsching, Bavaria : In the Herrsching railway accident, 16 people died at a level crossing on the Munich – Herrsching railway line near Herrsching am Ammersee. A group of friars were on a pilgrimage to Andechs monastery in a truck.

• Nov. 8, 1951 - Walpertskirchen, Bavaria : In the railway accident at Walpertskirchen , a passenger train drove head-on into a local freight train. 16 people died and 41 were injured.
• June 7, 1952 - Kettenbach, Hessen ( Aartalbahn ): When entering the Kettenbach station, the train coming from Bad Schwalbach and consisting of two railcars derailed and the rear railcar overturned. There were two dead and numerous seriously injured.

• May 13, 1953 - Between Oberbruch and Niederselters, Hessen ( Main-Lahn-Bahn ). Due to a "track fault", the steam locomotive 93 742 fell down an embankment. The engine driver died.

• Apr. 27, 1954 - Hanau, Hessen : The Hanau railway accident was the flanking of a local train in the Scandinavia Express . Four dead and 97 injured were the result. The locomotive driver of the passenger train stated that he recognized "green" when the light signal had been installed shortly before. As a result, light signals were provided with glare protection.

• July 24, 1954 - Abenheim, Rhineland-Palatinate : In the Abenheim railway accident , a bus was hit by a train at an open level crossing on the Worms – Gundheim railway line between Herrnsheim and Abenheim. 25 people died.

• October 17, 1954 - Burghaun, Hessen : In the railway accident at the Burghaun tunnel , the express train Hamburg – Basel hit a truck loaded with sugar on a level crossing because the barriers were not closed. The truck was pushed through the tunnel by the steam locomotive, and sugar that had entered the driver's cab ignited and seriously injured the stoker.

• Dec. 18, 1954 - Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia : In the railway accident in Dortmund , an outgoing local train and an incoming train collided due to an incorrectly set switch. 15 people died and 71 others were injured.

• December 20, 1954 - Wallersdorf, Bayern : Operation Assistant contender in Wallersdorf transgressed the signal points several times and did not give the Viehzug 5654 the driveway, but the Schotterwagenleerzug dSth 19905 exit. Six people were killed and one injured in the head-on collision on the route. The staff of both trains got jammed on the locomotives.

• Feb. 25, 1956 - Bornitz, Leipzig district : In the Bornitz railway accident, a through freight train drove into the flank of a passing express train from Dresden to Leipzig in the Bornitz station. The accident left 43 dead and 55 injured.

• June 24, 1956 - Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia : In the main train station, the Pto 4792 rail bus collides with the N 3507 local train coming from Hagen after the latter ignored a stop signal. Two people died, 138 were injured, 20 of them seriously.

• Sep. 14, 1958 - Drachenfels, North Rhine-Westphalia : In the railway accident from the Drachenfels, a train of the Drachenfels cogwheel railway derailed due to excessive speed. 18 passengers died and many passengers suffered injuries.

• Oct. 22, 1958 - Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia : The extra wide load, a 175 ton turbo generator , of a freight train slashed a passenger train at the side in the Dortmund-Hörde station . The previously ordered blocking of the neighboring track was disregarded by the responsible dispatcher because the official designation "neighboring track" did not exist in the station area. Three people were killed and 38 others were injured, some seriously

• June 20, 1959 - Lauffen am Neckar, Baden-Wuerttemberg : In the Lauffen bus accident, an electric multiple unit hit a public service bus at a level crossing of the then narrow-gauge Zabergäubahn . 45 people were killed and 25 people survived seriously injured.

1960-1969

• May 15, 1960 - Leipzig, District of Leipzig : In the railway accident in Leipzig , an arriving express train collided head-on with an departing passenger train in Leipzig main station due to a wrongly set switch due to a power failure. At least 54 people died and 240 were injured. It was one of the most serious railway accidents of the Deutsche Reichsbahn in the GDR.

• June 13, 1961 - Esslingen (Neckar), Baden-Württemberg : In the Esslingen railway accident , two passenger trains collided head-on in the western entrance of Esslingen station. 35 people died.

• Oct. 5, 1961 - Hamburg-Borgfelde, Hamburg : In the S-Bahn accident at the Berliner Tor , an S-Bahn train hit a construction train. 28 people in the S-Bahn were killed and 55 passengers injured.

• February 17, 1962 - Isenbüttel, Lower Saxony : In the Isenbüttel railway accident, a train derailed due to stones that had been laid on the Braunschweig – Wieren railway line. 3 people died and 25 were injured.

• March 1, 1962 - Trebbin, Potsdam district : In the Trebbin railway accident , the cargo of a military train came loose near the town of Trebbin, damaged an oncoming express train and derailed its own train. Officials tried to cover up the accident. According to eyewitness reports, more than 70 people died.

• October 24, 1964 - Hastedt, Bremen : 50 4027 traveling alone on the freight train track as Lz 90306 crossed the pre- and main signal. At this point, the freight train track joins the main railroad track with no flank protection, so the flank journey could not be prevented. The 50.40 drove into the E 526 at the level of the third car, and the 3rd and 4th car of the E 526 overturned, with the 3rd car crashing into the central girder of the bridge over the route, which was between the tracks. The n-car was bent and destroyed. The 50.40 derailed with all axles and overturned against a bridge pier. There were seven dead and 36 injured.

• November 1, 1964 - Langhagen, Schwerin district : In the Langhagen railway accident , the Berlin – Rostock express train ran into a derailed gravel train that protruded into the clearance profile of the express train. 44 people were killed and 70 others were injured, some seriously.

• June 24, 1965 - Waßmannsdorf, Potsdam district : In the Waßmannsdorf railway accident, several wagons of a passenger train coming from Potsdam derailed when entering the station due to a warped track, which could be attributed to a high level of heat. Nine travelers were killed, including the well-known DEFA actress Ellinor Vogel .

• August 12, 1965 - Lampertheim, Hessen : In the railway accident in Lampertheim , the Trans-Europ-Express TEE 77 Helvetia collided with the end of a freight train that was not free of profile. All seven passenger cars of the TEE were partially slit open by the last freight car and derailed. Four people died, six were seriously and 39 were slightly injured.

Burned-out double-decker cars after the Langenweddingen accident.

• October 7, 1965 - Sandförde, Neubrandenburg district : In the Sandförde railway accident , the international long-distance train D 24 Malmö-Berlin collided with an oncoming passenger train at Sandförde station after the engine driver of the express train heeded a signal too late. Engine drivers and stokers lost their lives in the accident and 16 people were seriously injured.

• Feb. 04, 1966 - Heimenkirch, Bavaria : In the Heimenkirch bus accident , a school bus collided with a freight train, seven children were killed.

• July 16, 1966 - Etelsen, Lower Saxony : The express train D 41 "Senator" derailed in a freshly tamped track section at a speed of 135 km / h. The cause of the accident remained unclear.

• September 17, 1966 - Bensheim, Hessen : In the Bensheim railway accident, a passenger train derailed due to stones that children had laid on the Bensheim – Worms railway line. One person died and 15 were injured.

• November 16, 1966 - Oberliederbach, Hesse : In the railway accident in Oberliederbach, a 3-part railcar, which had become independent downhill in the Kelkheim-Hornau station, collided with a passenger train driven by a steam locomotive on the single-track line. Seven people died, 80 were injured, some seriously.

• July 6, 1967 - Langenweddingen, Magdeburg district : In the Langenweddingen railway accident , a passenger 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.

• Mar. 08, 1968 - Walldorf, Hessen : A passenger train traveling in the direction of Frankfurt rammed a train occupied with schoolchildren that had just left Walldorf (Hessen) station with a flank run on a single-track section due to construction work after crossing a signal showing "Halt" . A student and a 78-year-old woman died, and 53 people were injured, some seriously.

• Oct. 16, 1968 - Hauptstuhl, Rhineland-Palatinate : During the railway assassination attempt at Hauptstuhl on the Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway line, a switch was set to diversion, whereupon the locomotive and seven cars of the express train derailed. One person died and 14 were injured.

• June 22, 1969 - Hannover-Linden, Lower Saxony : In the Linden railway accident, a fire-fighting freight car of the Belgian State Railways (SNCB) that was loaded with ammunition for the German armed forces exploded in the Hannover-Linden station. Twelve people were killed in the accident.

• August 12, 1969 - Meckelfeld, Lower Saxony : The express train E 1737 drove at excessive speed on the stopping long-distance train F 33 “Gambrinus”. According to official information, the responsible dispatcher should not have allowed the long-distance train, but the express train, to continue traveling by incorrectly operating a signal. However, it remained unclear whether this was "triggered by a failure of the technology that has not yet been finally clarified". Four people died, 60 were injured, 17 of them seriously.

• Aug. 29, 1969 - Großkorbetha, Halle district : In the Groß Korbetha railway accident , the express train from Halle (Saale) to Erfurt collided with a standing steam locomotive. In the accident there were only injuries and no deaths. The leading locomotive of the express train was the E 18 40, which had recently been converted by the Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR) as an electric test locomotive for high speeds. The test machine was taken out of service after the accident.

• September 16, 1969 - Salzbergen, Lower Saxony : Two freight trains loaded with petrol, petroleum and liquid gas collided head-on in thick fog. This led to the explosion of one of the tank cars and a major fire, as a result of which a signal box was destroyed and two adjacent residential buildings were badly damaged. The extinguishing work lasted until September 22, 1969. There was no personal injury.

1970-1979

• May 11, 1970 - Beckingen, Saarland A serious accident occurred on May 11, 1970, in which five people were killed after a landslide caused by heavy rain for two days. An express train derailed and smashed the last wagon of an oncoming passenger train.

• June 5, 1970 - Celle, Lower Saxony : When passing through the southern end of the Celle station, the express train D 47 “Konsul” derailed in a curved track with switches. Five people died. The cause of the accident was a combination of freshly plugged track, the relatively high speed of the train of 155 km / h and the driving behavior of the class 112 locomotive, which deformed the track to such an extent that the closing cars 5-11 of the train derailed.

• June 8, 1970 - Alfeld, Lower Saxony : The express train D 588 derailed at 4:23 pm at a speed of 125 km / h. There were injured among the travelers. A boy who was on a path west of the track was killed by a bogie that came loose. The cause of the accident was a temporarily fixed, replaced section of track that deformed in the summer heat and the premature removal of the speed limit stop there.

• Feb. 09, 1971 - Aitrang, Bavaria : In the Aitrang railway accident, the Trans-Europ-Express Bavaria derailed on the Allgäu Railway due to excessive speed. A short time later, a rail bus coming from the opposite direction drove to the scene of the accident. 28 people died and 42 were injured. Among the dead was the actor and director Leonard Steckel .

• Feb.15, 1971 - Karlsruhe, Baden-Wuerttemberg : Railway accident resulting in death for five people in a car at the Zeppelinstrasse level crossing at the Karlsruhe-West train station.

• May 27, 1971 - Dahlerau, North Rhine-Westphalia : In the Dahlerau railway accident , a rail bus collided head-on with a freight train on the Wuppertal Railway. 41 high school students and five adults died, 25 people were seriously injured. Since no radio was available, the accident could not be prevented. After the accident, equipment with train radio was advanced in Germany .

• Jul 21, 1971 - Rheinweiler, Baden-Wuerttemberg : In the Rheinweiler railway accident, the Switzerland express from Basel to Copenhagen on the Rhine Valley Railway derailed before entering the Rheinweiler station. 25 people died, 121 were injured, some seriously. As a result, the German Federal Railroad equipped slow speed points that were not arranged by signals with punctual train control and shortened the response times of the safety driving circuit .

• Mar. 02, 1972 - Ingolstadt, Bavaria : In the Ingolstadt railway accident , two freight trains crashed into each other between the Ingolstadt Nord and Ingolstadt Hbf stations, which led to a major fire and claimed three lives.

• May 24, 1972 - Darmstadt, Hessen : In the Darmstadt railway accident , playing children had put a bulldozer into operation, which came to a stop on the track of the Odenwaldbahn and was hit by a local railcar. Nine people were injured.

• Oct. 30, 1972 - Schweinsburg-Culten, Karl-Marx-Stadt district : In the Schweinsburg-Culten railway accident , the Karola express train from Leipzig to Karlovy Vary ran over the stopping signal in thick fog and collided with the oncoming Aue-Berlin express train . 22 people died and 70 were injured, six of whom died in the following days.

• Apr. 24, 1973 - Horneburg, Lower Saxony : In the Horneburg railway accident, the 1813 express train derailed at 14:49 on the journey from Cuxhaven to Hamburg just past the Horneburg train station. Because the barriers were not closed in time, there was a collision with a delivery truck. The first wagons of the train, pushed by a diesel locomotive, jumped off the rails. After about 100 m the first wagon caught a catenary mast in a slight left turn, was cut into two parts by this and fell down the embankment embankment. There were four dead and 15 injured.

• July 10, 1973 - Leipzig-Leutzsch, Leipzig District : In the Leipzig-Leutzsch railway accident , an express train drove too fast over a switch in a distracting position, derailed and crashed into a dispatcher interlocking. Four people died and 25 were injured.

• Aug. 13, 1973 - Erdbach, Hessen : In the Erdbach railway accident, 16 freight wagons rolled off the Mademühlen station that had been uncoupled by outsiders. After 15 kilometers, they ran over a buffer stop and hit a residential building, where a woman was killed.

• Nov. 05, 1973 - Guntershausen, Hessen : In the Guntershausen railway accident , an express train crashed into an interzonal train. Drizzle, leaves and dirt led to excessively long braking distances for the two trains. 14 people lost their lives, 65 were injured.

• Mar. 7, 1975 - Munich, Bavaria : In the Munich-Allach railway accident, a passenger train collided with an omnibus on the Munich-Ingolstadt railway line when the railway barriers were open. Twelve people died and five others were injured.

• June 8, 1975 - Warngau, Bavaria : In the Warngau railway accident, two express trains that ran between Lenggries and Munich collided head- on due to a dispatcher error and an air crossing scheduled in the timetable . 41 dead passengers and railway workers, including both train drivers, were the result. Air crossings were then banned.

• July 22, 1975 - Hamburg-Harburg, Hamburg : In the railway accident at Hamburg-Hausbruch , eleven people died in a head-on collision between a passenger train and a freight train. The engine driver of the local train ignored a signal. The Deutsche Bundesbahn was criticized for not installing a distant signal repeater four years before the accident, despite a near collision .

• June 23, 1976 - Eisenach, District of Erfurt : In the railway accident in Eisenach, the transit train D 354 derailed on the way from Berlin to Paris and collided with a shunting department which crashed onto a main road running parallel to the railway embankment. 26 people were injured, 10 of them seriously. The cause of the accident was a defective switch. The incident caused a particular stir because a transit train on GDR territory was involved in an accident.

• August 25, 1976 - Rastatt, Baden-Wuerttemberg : During the railway assassination near Rastatt , "Monsieur X" removed 80 rail fastening screws, whereupon a freight train derailed. The property damage amounted to one million DM.

• Mar. 28, 1977 - Opladen, North Rhine-Westphalia : Clash of 110 397 of an interzonal train with 112 494 . People died and there was considerable property damage.

• June 27, 1977 - Lebus, Frankfurt (Oder) district : In the railway accident in Lebus , a holiday express train collided with a freight train head-on because the express train had been directed onto the wrong route by a switchman's mistake. 31 people died and seven were seriously injured.

• October 17, 1977 - Riegel am Kaiserstuhl, Baden-Wuerttemberg : During the railway assassination attempt at Riegel am Kaiserstuhl , "Monsieur X" loosened 132 rail bolts in a curve and bent the inner track. The Italia-Express Copenhagen-Rome derailed and two wagons overturned. 19 people were injured, some seriously. The blackmailer was arrested and spent 18 years in prison.

• November 27, 1977 - Bitterfeld, Halle district : When the boiler crashed in Bitterfeld , the boiler of the locomotive of the express train D 567 Berlin-Leipzig exploded because the locomotive staff had only taken in coal but no water after a long delay in the Berlin Ostbahnhof railway depot. It was the last boiler explosion of a steam locomotive in Germany. Nine people died in the process.

Salvage work in 1983 on the Neuwiederitzsch level crossing.

Salvage work 1981 in Erfurt-Bischleben.

• September 28, 1978 - Seelow, Frankfurt (Oder) district : In the Seelow railway accident , two through freight trains collided head-on. A dispatcher forgot to put the exit signal on stop. One person was killed and one seriously injured. Outdated security systems without a route block were complicit in the collision.

1980-1989

• September 25, 1980 - Iserlohn, North Rhine-Westphalia : In the Iserlohn railway accident, a local railcar derailed and hit a house because children had placed stones in the ruts of a level crossing. 13 people were injured.

• Feb. 6, 1981 - Essingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg : Between Mögglingen and Essingen there was a frontal collision between the E 3447 and the Üg 68452. On the transfer train 68 452 the locomotive had to be moved in the Essingen station so that the Mögglingen passing point could be approached. The driver drove further than planned and did not stop at the turning point 3 despite the stop signals from the shunting conductor, but accelerated to 97 km / h. At km 64.684 there was a head-on collision with the E 3447, which was traveling at 89 km / h at the time. The shunting ladder on the outside of the locomotive was seriously injured and survived the collision and the pushing the locomotive back by around 84 meters. The two locomotive drivers were killed in the collision. Fortunately, the express train was poorly manned and there were no passengers in the first two cars, so there were no fatalities among the passengers. The accident resulted in 2 dead and 18 injured, 15 of them seriously (14 passengers, 1 train employee). The property damage is given as 2 million DM, the two locomotives - 118 049 and 215 062 - wedged, the 118 was broken off on site, the 215 was rebuilt.

• March 6, 1981 - Tauberfeld, Bavaria : There was a flank run as a result of departing against a closed main signal. Dg 78124 stopped for a change of locomotive driver on track 2 of the Tauberfeld station , the counter train Dg 47949 on track 3. As a result of the regulations, the turnout of turnout 10 in the direction of exit of track 2 was in the direction of track 1 and not 3. The engine driver of the train Dg 78124 drove up without consent to the main signal, ran over it and came to a stop on the tongue of the switch 12, with which it stood in the route of the E 3238, which was running on track 1. The locomotive of the E 3238 was the 103 125-1 , which threw the first freight car of the Dg 78124 to the side and also pushed the locomotive 150 100-6 onto the opposite track. The 103 fell down the embankment and was so badly damaged that it was scrapped on site. All five passenger cars of the E 3238 derailed and some overturned, but ran into no significant obstacle, so that the passengers all survived. The engine driver of the E 3238 died on March 8 of his injuries. According to the report by the Augsburg Railway Police, nine people were seriously injured and sixteen people were slightly injured. The criminal police's list of injuries included 32 names, including the engine driver of Dg 78124 and the dispatcher at Tauberfeld station, both of whom suffered a shock. The number of passengers on the E 3238 fluctuates between 30 and 50, depending on the source. The total damage was around 5.9 million DM.

• June 11, 1981 - Erfurt-Bischleben, district of Erfurt : In the railway accident in Erfurt-Bischleben, the interzonal train between Düsseldorf and Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz) derailed due to a track fault. 14 passengers died, 102 other travelers were injured, some seriously.

• July 6, 1982 - Grabowhöfe, Neubrandenburg district : The D 523 Rostock – Berlin, formed from the locomotives 132 457 and 132 499 as well as the ČSD seat car of the D 1278 “Warnow” derailed between Grabowhöfe and Vielist at 115 km / h on a construction site-related slow speed section of 30 km / h. 59 injuries and significant property damage are the result.

• August 2, 1982 - Ostercappeln, Lower Saxony : In the railway accident at Ostercappeln , an express train drove into a tank that two British soldiers had brought to a standstill after a rampage on the tracks of the Wanne-Eickel-Hamburg railway line. The two soldiers were killed, the engine driver and 20 passengers were injured.

• October 31, 1982 - Ludwigsfelde, Potsdam district : In thick fog had not noticed the engineer of a freight train signals and was 11485 Werder Berlin near the under the given conditions at excessive speed on the approximately 800 people crowded passenger train station Genshagener Heide ascended . The locomotive got stuck with the last car. The travelers had to be freed from the badly demolished car with cutting torches. Seven could only be recovered dead, and the train driver who caused it did not survive the collision. 55 passengers suffered injuries, 21 of them had to be hospitalized in the surrounding hospitals.

• April 23, 1983 - Neuwiederitzsch, Leipzig district : In the Neuwiederitzsch railway accident , an electric locomotive hit a line bus on a level crossing. Six occupants of the bus were killed and eight passengers were seriously injured.

• May 27, 1983 - Königsdorf, North Rhine-Westphalia : Flooding from a private property, which got onto the route, derailed the Wien-Ostend-Express in the cut of the Königsdorf tunnel, which was later slashed. The leading electric locomotive crashed into a road bridge. One of the following cars was bent over in the middle by the force of the impact. Seven people died and 23 others were injured, some seriously.

• July 5, 1983 - Blankenfelde, Potsdam district : In the early hours of the morning, an express train and a passenger train collided on the southern Berlin outer ring . The locomotive driver of the passenger train had ignored a stop signal in the crossing area. Three travelers died at the scene of the accident, another in the hospital. In addition, ten seriously injured and 31 slightly injured had to be treated.

Accident site in Heilbronn with cars 2, 3 and 4 in the foreground.

The locomotives of the trains that crashed in 1984 in Hohenthurm.

• February 29, 1984 - Hohenthurm, Halle district : In the Hohenthurm railway accident , a transit train and a local train collided after the locomotive driver of the transit train had run over three signals showing "Halt". Eleven people died on the local train and at least 46 were injured. The incident caused a particular stir because a transit train on GDR territory was involved in an accident.

• August 12, 1984 - Heilbronn, Baden-Wuerttemberg : In the Heilbronn railway accident, the night express train D 890 from Stuttgart to Hamburg-Altona derailed in front of the Heilbronn marshalling yard due to excessive speed. Three dead, including the Baden-Württemberg member of the state parliament Josef Wilhelm Hauser , and 57 people, some seriously injured, were the result.

• March 20, 1985 - Empelde, Lower Saxony : In the Empelde railway accident , a coal train ran over a signal indicating a stop, which triggered an emergency brake. Because the slip path was too short, a tank car train immediately following drove the coal train into the flank. A tank car caught fire immediately, there was an acute risk of explosion.
• July 22, 1985 - Between Breithardt and Hohenstein, Hessen ( Aartalbahn ): On the single-track line, a railcar and a freight train collided head-on in a blind curve. The vehicle driver and train driver of the railcar were killed. Three railway workers on the freight locomotive were seriously injured.

• October 11, 1985 - Eilsleben, Magdeburg district : In the Eilsleben railway accident , a passenger train and a diesel locomotive collided head-on between Wefensleben and Eilsleben because the section of the line was only passable on a single track due to construction work. The accident left 13 dead.

Salvage work in 1988 between Horka and Bielawa Dolna.

Destroyed locomotives of the DR class 132 in Schwarzkollm station.

• February 27, 1986 - Schönefeld, Potsdam district : At around 7.30 a.m., in thick fog on the southern Berlin outer ring, a passenger train hit a freight train that was stopping. The electric locomotive and the first wagon of the passenger train were so badly damaged that the driver could only be recovered dead. Four travelers were injured, two of them seriously. Seven cars derailed from the freight train as a result of the impact and overturned.

• April 8, 1986 - Lauchhammer, Cottbus district : A freight train collided with a public service bus as a result of a malfunction at a barrier level crossing. Eight people were killed and 38 suffered severe injuries. The driver was sentenced to one year in prison for disregarding the monitoring signal (SO 16 - "Stop in front of the level crossing! Continue after security.").

• 15./16. May 1987 - Schwarzkollm, Cottbus district : Two freight trains collided in the Schwarzkollm railway accident on the night of May 15-16, 1987. 14 wagons derailed, twelve of which overturned. A locomotive driver was injured and there was considerable damage to property.

On February 15, 1988, an express train crashed into a suburban train between Schönefeld and Berlin-Karlshorst.

• January 19, 1988 - Forst Zinna, Potsdam district : In the Forst Zinna railway accident, a tank of the Soviet armed forces in Germany collided with an express train on the Berlin – Halle line. The two locomotive drivers were among the six fatalities, 33 people were injured.

• February 15, 1988 - Berlin-Eichgestell, East Berlin : On the Berlin outer ring at the Eichgestell stop, an express train hit the locomotive of a push-pull train that was at the end of the train. The locomotives and one car each from both trains derailed. Six people were seriously injured and 28 travelers were slightly injured.
• April 26, 1988 - Ferdinandshof, Neubrandenburg district : On the railway line from Berlin to Stralsund, two passenger trains collided head-on between Ferdinandshof and Borckenfriede. One person was killed and 28 injured.

• June 28, 1988 - Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate : In the railway accident in the Heiligenberg tunnel , a freight train drove into stones that had fallen onto the tracks at the eastern tunnel portal. The locomotive and three cars derailed and were hit by an oncoming express train. One passenger was killed, ten seriously and 28 slightly injured.

• December 3, 1988 - Horka, Dresden district : In the Horka railway accident near the state border near Horka, a freight train coming from Poland collided with a service train of the Deutsche Reichsbahn. Five German and three Polish railway workers were killed and three other railway workers were seriously injured.

• March 13, 1989 - Tauer, Beeskow district : The Frankfurt (Oder) -Cottbus passenger train and a freight train collided at the Tauer depot . The locomotives of both trains derailed, two passenger cars wedged into each other, one was pushed over the locomotive. Two passengers could only be rescued dead after hours of arduous rescue operation. Four passengers and the train driver of the passenger train, who had ignored an entrance signal, were taken to the hospital, while other passengers with minor injuries received outpatient care.

1990-1999

• February 2, 1990 - Rüsselsheim, Hessen : In the railway accident in Rüsselsheim , a head-on collision with an oncoming S-Bahn occurred after an S-Bahn had left the station despite an emergency brake after crossing a signal indicating a stop. The slip path was too short for the speed achieved. 17 people died and 145 people were seriously injured. As a result, the punctiform train control was improved with PZB 90 .

• March 22, 1990 - Gröbers, Saxony-Anhalt : Due to human failure of the dispatcher, the D 734 from Leipzig to Rostock and the P 7343 from Halle / Saale Hbf to Leipzig Hbf collided at the level of the Gröbers train station . 5 people died, 38 were also injured. Both trains were destroyed.

• July 27, 1991 - Oebisfelde, Saxony-Anhalt : The express train D 448 collided head-on with the freight train Gag 46183 after the latter ignored a stop signal. The freight train transported 1,183 tons of premium gasoline in 27 tank cars, some of which then caught fire and exploded. The soil was contaminated over an area of ​​1,600 square meters and had to be removed. The damage amounts to 5 million marks. Both train drivers and an apprentice died. In addition, 21 people were injured, six of them seriously.

• January 24, 1992 - Lehrte, Lower Saxony : A local train ran over a stop signal in thick fog and collided head-on with another local train. The electric locomotive of one train pushed itself onto the control car of the other and destroyed its superstructure over a length of 16 meters. Four people died, 45 suffered some serious injuries.

• November 15, 1992 - Northeim, Lower Saxony : In the Northeim railway accident, a freight train derailed at the northern end of the station. The Innsbruck – Copenhagen express train then drove through the rubble and was cut open. Eleven dead and 51, some seriously injured, were the result.

IC train locomotive 229 after the collision in Berlin-Wannsee.

• December 31, 1992 - Holthusen, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania : In the railway accident in Holthusen , an express train drove into a shunting locomotive due to a mistake by the dispatcher. The driver of the express train could only be recovered dead, four people were seriously injured.

• April 9, 1993 - Berlin-Wannsee, Berlin : In the railway accident in Berlin-Wannsee , an intercity and express train collided head-on at Berlin-Wannsee station. Three people died.

• December 22, 1993 - Raisdorf, Schleswig-Hostein : A work car and an express train collided head- on in the Klosterforst on the Kiel – Lübeck railway line . 93 people were injured, one died.

• August 21, 1994 - Drei Annen Hohne, Saxony-Anhalt : Between Drei Annen Hohne and Steinerne Renne two passenger trains on the Harz Cross Railway collided head-on. Both locomotives derailed, several wagons were pushed into one another or stood sideways. The locomotive driver and driver of the train traveling downhill had overlooked an intersection stop in the Drängetal depot. 31 people were injured, some seriously.

• September 29, 1994 - Bad Bramstedt, Schleswig-Holstein : In the Bad Bramstedt railway accident , two diesel multiple units of the Altona-Kaltenkirchen-Neumünster railway collided head-on. Six people died and 80 were injured, some of them life-threatening.

• December 12, 1995 - Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria : The Garmisch-Partenkirchen railway accident was a head-on collision with one dead and 51 injured caused by failure to heed a stop signal. In addition, the glass train was so badly damaged that it can no longer be used.

• June 1, 1996 - Schönebeck (Elbe), Saxony-Anhalt : The railway accident at Schönebeck was a derailment of a freight train with a subsequent explosion and fire disaster. 18 injuries were the result. It was one of the biggest accidents involving dangerous goods on German railways.

• June 5, 1996 - Kleinfurra, Thuringia : There was a head-on collision between trains 6655 and 6652 between Kleinfurra and Sondershausen due to disregard of the exit signal that was on "Stop" and the open barriers in Kleinfurra station. Three people were killed.

• February 19, 1997 - Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen, Hessen : In the railway accident in Frankfurt (Main) Süd , a container train hit the flank of a tank wagon train that had run over a signal. Two tank cars loaded with gasoline went up in flames. The surrounding dense residential development barely escaped a catastrophe. Already on May 9, 1996, two trains ran across the flank at the same point because one of the engine drivers had mixed up a signal.

• July 5, 1997 - Neustadt, Hessen : In the railway accident in Neustadt (Hessen) , several steel pipes slipped from a freight car. One of the pipes hit an oncoming regional express, damaged its first three wagons and pierced the fourth. Six passengers died and two were seriously injured.

• November 20, 1997 - Elsterwerda, Brandenburg : In the Elsterwerda railway accident, a train loaded with petrol and diesel derailed at excessive speed because its braking system had not been properly operated. The accident resulted in an explosion and fire that killed two firefighters.

• November 22, 1997 - Cochem, Rhineland-Palatinate : In a railway accident in the Kaiser Wilhelm tunnel , a freight train lost a five-ton steel slab . The locomotive of the oncoming train hit the fallen slab.

In the accident in Eschede in 1998, the rear ICE cars pushed into one another.

• December 9, 1997 - Hanover-Anderten, Lower Saxony : In the Hanover-Anderten railway accident, a freight train collided head-on with a passenger train. 51 people were injured and several tank cars loaded with diesel fuel caught fire.

• June 3, 1998 - Eschede, Lower Saxony : In the Eschede ICE accident, a wheel tire broke due to structural defects on the first car of an ICE 1, came loose and damaged a switch in the approach area of ​​Eschede station. The following cars derailed at 200 km / h and rammed the central pillar of a road bridge. The collapsing bridge fell on the fifth and sixth wagons, and 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.

• February 18, 1999 - Immenstadt im Allgäu, Bavaria : When passing an Interregio and an Intercity, the two rear wagons of the Intercity jumped off the rails and collided with the Interregio's locomotive. Two people died and 33 were injured.

In 1999 the suspension railway fell into the Wupper from a height of almost ten meters.

• April 12, 1999 - Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia : In the suspension railway accident in Wuppertal, an articulated train derailed when it hit a steel claw that had been forgotten after construction work . Five people died and 49 were seriously injured. It was the worst accident on a suspension railway.

21st century

2000-2009

In Ilmenau in 2000, an excavator derailed a locomotive

• February 6, 2000 - Brühl, North Rhine-Westphalia : In the Brühl railway accident, the Switzerland Express derailed on the left Rhine route from Amsterdam to Basel because it was driving at excessive speed over a switch in a branching position. Nine passengers were killed.

• March 13, 2000 - Ilmenau, Thuringia : In the railway accident in Ilmenau , an excavator drove over a level crossing whose barrier was defective and was hit by an approaching train. Two people were seriously injured.

• June 10, 2000 - Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria : In the railway accident in the Katzenstein tunnel, two trains collided head- on on the valley section of the Bavarian Zugspitzbahn . At least 59 people were injured as a result.

• June 29, 2000 - Hannover-Langenhagen Airport, Lower Saxony : In the railway accident at Hannover-Langenhagen Airport , two S-Bahn trains collided. Due to the route, the oncoming train was only visible shortly before the collision.

• June 22, 2001 - Vilseck, Bavaria : In the Vilseck railway accident, a diesel multiple unit crashed into a US Army truck on a level crossing outside Vilseck on the Neukirchen – Weiden railway line. Three people died and nine others were seriously injured.

• September 27, 2001 - Bodolz, Bavaria : In the so-called Lindau train accident , two regional trains, mostly occupied by commuters and schoolchildren, collided head-on near Enzisweiler station. 82 people were injured.

• December 1, 2001 - Landesbergen, Lower Saxony : On a railroad crossing in Landesbergen the railway Nienburg-Minden bounced a local train against a floating bridge vehicle of the Bundeswehr . 22 passengers were lightly injured, the train driver seriously injured. Three soldiers suffered minor injuries.

• September 9, 2002 - Bad Münder am Deister, Lower Saxony : In the Bad Münder railway accident , a brake failure led to a head-on collision between two freight trains, which released 40,000 liters of the chemical epichlorohydrin and ignited. The two drivers suffered serious injuries.

• June 11, 2003 - Schrozberg, Baden-Württemberg : In the Schrozberg railway accident , two passenger trains collided head-on on the Taubertal Railway north of Schrozberg due to a reporting error by the dispatcher. Six people died and 25 were injured.

• August 16, 2003 - Neufahrn, Bavaria : In the Neufahrn railway accident, two S-Bahn trains collided that had recently been winged in Neufahrn . Several people were injured.

• September 28, 2003 - Holzdorf, Thuringia : Two regional trains collided head-on on the Weimar – Kranichfeld railway line after one of the train drivers continued the journey without having received a permit. One traveler died, 27 people were also injured, 14 of them seriously. The property damage amounted to 2 million euros.

• April 21, 2004 - Süßen, Baden-Wuerttemberg : Due to an incorrectly set point, a regional train running empty collided head-on with a measuring train on the Stuttgart – Ulm railway line . The train driver of the regional train died, the six-person crew of the measuring train was injured. The property damage amounted to over 5 million euros.

• May 8, 2004 - Munich-Berg am Laim, Bavaria : A S-Bahn collided head-on with a track construction train after the latter ran over a stop signal. 68 people were injured, six of them seriously. The property damage was estimated at around 3 million euros.

• April 26, 2005 - Heldenwang (Oberallgäu), Bavaria : The regional express 21105 collided with an asphalt paver . The train driver was killed and 15 people were injured, some seriously. The property damage was estimated at around 3 million euros.

In 2008 ICE T was damaged in Brühl.

After the collision with a flock of sheep in 2008, derailed drive head in the Landrückentunnel.

• September 22, 2006 - Lathen, Lower Saxony : In the Lathen Transrapid accident , a maglev train with 31 passengers hit a workshop vehicle at around 160 km / h. In the world's most momentous monorail accident, 23 people were killed and ten seriously injured.

Regional Express after the accident in 2009 in Berlin-Karow.

• March 1, 2008 - Brühl, North Rhine-Westphalia : In a railway accident in Brühl , an ICE hit a fallen tree that had been blown over by hurricane Emma.

• April 26, 2008 - Landrücke, Hessen : In the railway accident in the Landrückentunnel , an Intercity Express (ICE) drove into a flock of sheep that had got lost in the tunnel. Both power cars and the last ten intermediate cars derailed, 21 passengers and the driver were seriously injured.

• November 5, 2008 - Dillenburg, Hessen : In the freight yard in Dillenburg , a tank wagon freight train drove into another freight train that had loaded brand-new Porsche sports cars. The engine driver of the tank car train was slightly injured, the property damage amounted to approx. 5 million euros (see: here ).

• April 16, 2009 - Berlin-Karow, Berlin : In the railway accident in Berlin-Karow , a regional express ran into a slow-moving freight train. The 24 tank cars filled with liquid gas withstood the load. Eleven passengers on the Regional Express were lightly injured, the train driver seriously injured.
• September 12, 2009 - Friedewald , Saxony : As part of the 125th anniversary of the narrow-gauge Lößnitzgrundbahn , two special trains collided on the open line. 52 people are injured in the two heavily occupied trains, four of them seriously, the two historicist steam locomotives badly damaged. The celebrations were canceled as a result.

2010-2019

Rescue work 2010 in Peine-Horst.

• June 16, 2010 - Peine-Horst, Lower Saxony : In the Peine-Horst railway accident, a Regional Express Rheine-Braunschweig collided with a freight train on the Mittelweserbahn that had derailed immediately before. The driver of the Regional Express train was seriously injured, a train attendant and 18 passengers were slightly injured. The reason for the accident was a loose tire on a freight car.

• August 17, 2010 - Lambrecht, Rhineland-Palatinate : In the Lambrecht railway accident , an ICE hit a garbage truck that had just fallen onto the track. The leading car of the ICE was slashed at the side along its entire length, 15 passengers were injured. The driver of the garbage truck was able to save himself from the impact of the truck.

• January 29, 2011 - Hordorf, Saxony-Anhalt : In the Hordorf railway accident on the Magdeburg – Thale railway line, a Harz-Elbe-Express (HEX) from Veolia Verkehr collided with an oncoming freight train from the Peine-Salzgitter transport company. Ten people were killed in the collision and 23 others were injured, some of them life-threatening.

• May 20, 2011 - Muellheim, Baden-Wuerttemberg : In the Muellheim railway accident, eight freight wagons partially loaded with dangerous goods derailed at Muellheim station. Around 300 residents in the vicinity of the accident site were evacuated due to the risk of explosion.

• September 20, 2011 - Bad Lausick, Saxony : A driver overlooked a waiting vehicle and pushed it onto the level crossing. Its driver had left his vehicle before the accident. In the collision with the empty car on the tracks, three cars of the RE 3736 from Chemnitz destined for Leipzig derailed and one of them overturned. In the accident, 40 people of the 60-70 passengers were slightly injured, 9 of them seriously.

• April 13, 2012 - Mühlheim am Main, Hessen : In a railway accident in Mühlheim am Main, a site manager accidentally slammed a road-rail vehicle onto an unlocked track. A regional train drove into the construction vehicle with its double-decker control car. The driver of the regional train and the two men on the construction vehicle died.

• July 24, 2012 - Stuttgart, Baden-Wuerttemberg : On July 24, 2012, as well as on September 29 and October 9, there were derailments in Stuttgart Hbf . The main cause was the over-buffering of the extra-long dining car with other cars in the push- pull trains .

Accident site in Mannheim on August 2, 2014

• July 26, 2012 - Hosena, Brandenburg : In a railway accident in Hosena , two freight trains collided in the Hosena station due to non-working brakes. A switchman in the destroyed signal box could only be recovered dead, one of the locomotive drivers was seriously injured.
• November 30, 2012 - Stuttgart-Feuerbach, Baden-Wuerttemberg : Three loaded freight cars rolled abandoned the train yard Kornwestheim to Stuttgart main station and beat up 4:05 in Feuerbach station one. Thanks to the time of day and an attentive dispatcher, there was only considerable damage to property.

• October 17, 2013 - Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia : In a suspension railway accident in Wuppertal , an approximately 260 meter long conductor rail fell onto three cars and into the Wupper. The passengers in the stuck railcar had to be evacuated. Six people went into shock.

• October 26, 2013 - Gladbeck West : The brake of the DGS 89025 freight train did not work properly because of a closed shut-off valve on the compressed air line of the brake system, the train passed a signal indicating "Stop" and collided with a second freight train. The driver of the approaching train was seriously injured, and property damage ran into millions.

• November 11, 2013 - Hosena, Brandenburg : In a railway accident in Hosena , an unloaded block train hit a stationary freight train.

• August 1, 2014 - Mannheim, Baden-Wuerttemberg : The railway accident in Mannheim was a flank run by an ERS Railways freight train into the Eurocity EC 216 Graz – Saarbrücken. Four people were seriously injured and 35 were slightly injured.

• May 16, 2015 - Ibbenbueren, North Rhine-Westphalia : An ET 002 railcar of the Westfalenbahn collided with a slurry trailer that was left on a level crossing . The driver and one passenger were killed and around 20 people were injured.

Salvage of the Meridian trains that collided in Bad Aibling on February 9, 2016.

• November 5, 2015 - Freihung, Bavaria : In the Freihung railway accident , a regional express on the Neukirchen – Weiden railway line caught a military transporter that had broken down on a barred level crossing. The driver and one of the two occupants of the truck died, four passengers were seriously injured.

• February 9, 2016 - Bad Aibling, Bavaria : In the Bad Aibling railway accident , two passenger trains collided head-on on the single-track Holzkirchen – Rosenheim railway line near Bad Aibling. Twelve people died as a result of the accident.

• October 20, 2016 - Leipzig-Engelsdorf, Saxony : In the Leipzig-Engelsdorf train station, a marshalling department derailed and hit the W 6 signal box, which collapsed. The employee working there was rescued seriously injured. The points previously operated by the signal box had to be converted to manual operation.

• February 17, 2017 - Frankfurt-Griesheim, Hessen : During a shunting run to the Griesheim maintenance facility , the unmanned Sonneberg ICE multiple unit, an ICE T unit, ran over the buffer stop that terminated a dead end without braking. The leading vehicle derailed and landed damaged on a platform at the Frankfurt-Griesheim stop . The driver was injured and the property damage amounted to more than one million euros. The cause of the accident initially remained unclear. The signaling technology worked perfectly.

• June 15, 2017 - Michelbach an der Bilz, Baden-Württemberg : the freight train 51894 derailed three cars from Mannheim to Nuremberg, plunged in part and damaged the railway infrastructure of Waiblingen-Schwäbisch Hall railway between Gaildorf West and Schwäbisch Hall Hessental so significant that the section was closed for two weeks.

• June 23, 2017 - Gießen, Hessen : An empty wagon train consisting of tank wagons in a siding, at the top of which was the locomotive 294 822, ran over the track barrier that was supposed to protect the neighboring Vogelsbergbahn from such an incident. The locomotive and the following car derailed and then protruded into the clearance profile of the line. The route between Giessen and Große Buseck was closed for a day.

• June 30, 2017 - Leese-Stolzenau, Lower Saxony : On the single- track Nienburg – Minden line , the freight train 42597 Antwerp - Maschen of the Belgian company Lineas hit the frontal of the freight train 42757 Helsingborg - Krefeld of the Swedish Hector Rail . The two drivers were seriously injured. Several wagons of train 42757 derailed, two fell down the embankment onto a road, the driver's cab of the Hector Rail locomotive 241 007 was badly damaged. The property damage amounted to 8.7 million euros. The dispatcher had forgotten the train 42757 waiting on the regular through track and directed the counter train 42597 to the same track. At the time of the accident, the line served as a diversion for freight trains between Hamburg and the Ruhr area due to construction work . The Leese - Stolzenau train station is not equipped with a track vacancy detection system.

Recovery of the talent who had an accident in Meerbusch 2

• December 5, 2017 - Meerbusch, North Rhine-Westphalia : In the Meerbusch-Osterath railway accident , a train on Regional Express Line 7 from National Express collided with a freight train from DB Cargo in the area of the Meerbusch-Osterath station . The fire brigade found 155 people on the train. 47 of them were injured, three of them seriously.

• April 28, 2018 - Munich-Riem, Bavaria : On the night of April 28, 2018, a BoxXpress.de freight train derailed on the way to Bremerhaven in the Munich-Riem station . Four tracks as well as the 193 840 locomotive and the first two freight cars were severely damaged and the overhead contact line was torn down over a length of almost 80 meters. The property damage was estimated at four million euros. The cause of the accident were two stumbling blocks that were still on the tracks when the train started.

• April 28, 2018 - Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Wuerttemberg : At the entrance to the Freiburg im Breisgau freight yard, a RAlpin RoLa train coming from Novara derailed due to a switch under the moving train. The incident damaged four points at the southern entrance to the freight yard and caused extensive disruptions in RoLa traffic for days.

• May 7, 2018 - Aichach, Bavaria : In the Aichach railway accident , a regional train of the Bavarian Regiobahn crashed into a stationary DB Cargo freight train as it entered Aichach station. Two people died.

• June 6, 2018 - Engen, Baden-Wuerttemberg : Near Engen , a regional train from SBB GmbH drove into a flock of sheep with around 450 animals that had escaped their enclosure and got onto the tracks. Around 50 sheep were killed.

• October 12, 2018 - Dierdorf, Rhineland-Palatinate : On the high-speed route Cologne – Rhine / Main near Dierdorf , the penultimate car of the rear unit of the ICE 511 from Cologne to Munich, which was driven with an ICE 3 double set, caught fire at around 6:30 a.m. . The cause was a damaged bracket of a transformer, which was no longer firmly anchored, and rubbed the insulation through its own movement, which led to short circuits, which in turn heated the transformer oil so much that it ignited. The fire started in the underfloor area and spread to the following end car. The car in which the fire broke out was completely destroyed, the following end car was badly damaged, as was the railway infrastructure . 510 people had to be evacuated from the train, five were slightly injured. It took several weeks before the high-speed line was fully operational again.

• October 28, 2018 - Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg : At around 7 a.m., the NJ 401/471 from Hamburg and Berlin to Zurich in the southwest of Freiburg im Breisgau collided with a construction vehicle that protruded into the clearance profile of the passing train. The construction workers were able to get to safety in time. Nobody was injured on the train either. The route was closed for three hours. The train was withdrawn to Freiburg Hbf, where travelers were referred to alternative connections. The train then later drove empty to Zurich.

• February 6, 2019 - Unkel, Rhineland-Palatinate : Two double sliding wall wagons at the end of a freight train caught fire. Among other things, they were loaded with spray cans . The train could be stopped at Unkel station . The local fire department was there immediately. However, it took an hour before the railway succeeded in grounding the overhead line so that the extinguishing work could begin. 60 residents were evacuated because of the risk of explosion. Due to the destruction of the infrastructure, the right line of the Rhine between Linz and Rhöndorf was closed for four days.

Railcar 445 013 after the accident in Alt Duvenstedt at the Neumünster freight yard.

• May 8, 2019 - Alt Duvenstedt, Schleswig-Holstein : At 4:36 a.m., a Twindexx Vario on line RE 7 collided with a heavy-duty transporter on a level crossing in Alt Duvenstedt on the way from Flensburg to Hamburg . 25 passengers were injured in the accident, two of them seriously. The transporter had loaded a ram for a job near the level crossing and, according to the current state of the investigation, should not have been allowed to drive over the level crossing on a hilltop due to lack of ground clearance. The wreck consisting of railcars 445 013 and 445 029 was parked in the Neumünster freight yard.

• October 19, 2019 - Berlin : Shortly after the departure of the special train DPE 86363 with about 760 passengers and soccer fans from Berlin-Charlottenburg to Freiburg, the second car of the train caught fire on the Berlin light rail. The train was stopped at the Bellvue S-Bahn station, where all passengers and staff could leave the train unharmed. The car - a former 1st class A4üm (g) -54 / Am ²⁰² - burned out. The damage amounted to € 150,000. According to the interim report of the Federal Agency for Railway Accident Investigation of January 17, 2020, an overheated heating system was the cause, the protection of which against such an incident did not work because the protective device had stuck.

From 2020

• January 20, 2020 - Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof, Hesse : The RE 4171 from Kassel to Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof had a technical malfunction shortly before reaching the destination station, which was fixed at the Frankfurt (Main) Messe stop . The shut-off cocks of the air brake between the locomotive (146 254) were closed and then no longer opened. As a result, the train only braked with the locomotive when it entered platform 16 of the Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof terminus. He hit the bumper "at low speed". One passenger was seriously injured, three other passengers and a train attendant were slightly injured.
• January 22, 2020 - Eichenberg, Hessen : A freight train coming from Göttingen collided in Eichenberg station with the crane boom of a work vehicle that protruded into the clearance profile of the track being used. Two track workers were seriously injured and two others were slightly injured. The driver was uninjured because he was able to duck away.
• February 4, 2020 - Bremen-Neustadt , Bremen : After a wagon of a freight train from Oberhausen to Wilhelmshaven made of 38 bulk freight wagons (Falns) derailed, the train was separated and eight other wagons derailed. The superstructure and overhead line as well as a platform were badly damaged.
• February 16, 2020 - Würzburg main station : At around 10 p.m., the RE 4636 should be ready at platform 11. The double-decker Twindexx train ran over a shunting signal showing "Stop", which caused it to get into the route of the DGS 48959 freight train that was arriving at the same time. The freight train consisted of tank wagons with diesel fuel and was traveling from Gelsenkirchen to Linz. Its locomotive (187 315 ​​with auxiliary diesel drive) drove the second car of the Twindexx unit into the flank. Both vehicles and the first tank car derailed. The locomotive's diesel auxiliary drive tank was damaged. 200 liters of diesel oil leaked. No Deutsche Bahn office in a wide area has the ability to lift an 87-ton locomotive. Only the lifting stand of the DGEG museum workshop in Würzburg was nearby and suitable for putting the vehicle in the accident on Loco buggies in order to tow it away for repair.
• March 7, 2020 - Weißwasser / Oberlausitz, Saxony : The cargo of a military freight train of the US armed forces crashed into four metal pillars of the bridge of the B 156 over the tracks in the Weißwasser station . It was a chain cover of an armored recovery vehicle that protruded beyond the clearance profile. The bridge was damaged beyond repair.
• April 2, 2020 - Auggen, Baden-Wuerttemberg : On the Rhine Valley Railway, a freight train ( Rollende Landstrasse ) loaded with trucks , pulled by a BLS Cargo locomotive , operationally responsible for SBB Cargo International on behalf of RAlpin , collided with a truck weighing more than 100 tons Concrete segment that had fallen onto the tracks shortly before during demolition work on a bridge in the course of the expansion and new construction of the Karlsruhe – Basel railway line . The engine driver was killed, one of the ten truck drivers in the support car directly behind the locomotive was seriously injured and two were slightly injured. The tracks in the affected area were also badly damaged.
• April 15, 2020 - Berlin : When driving on a switch, the last car of a S75 S-Bahn leaving Berlin-Lichtenberg station derailed at around 9 p.m. The derailing vehicle damaged the busbar attached to the side, which bored through the floor of the vehicle into the passenger compartment and pierced the window in the rear of the vehicle driver's area. The driver and the only 15 passengers were uninjured.
• June 22, 2020 - Eichenberg, Hesse : A Cantus passenger train collided on the Hanover – Kassel railway line between Neu-Eichenberg and Niedergandern with a hanging overhead line, which was probably damaged beforehand because a bird sitting on it triggered a deflagration. The train caught fire in the front area and the driver was seriously injured.

See also

• List of attacks in rail transport
• Section List of Kettle Explosions in the article Kettle Blast
• List of serious accidents in rail transport
• Navigation bar lists of railway accidents

literature

• Klaus Kemp: Regiebahn. Reparations, occupation, war against the Ruhr, Reichsbahn. The railways in the Rhineland and the Ruhr area 1918–1930 . EK-Verlag , Freiburg 2016. ISBN 978-3-8446-6404-1
• Peter WB Semmens: Disasters on the rails. A worldwide documentation. Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71030-3 .

Remarks

1. ↑ Only in individual cases are accidents listed in which people were killed while crossing the railway tracks or were involved in construction or maintenance work.
2. ↑ according to another statement May 10, 1901.
3. ↑ The source (Eberhard Schüler: At that time in Eschwege West . In: Eisenbahn Geschichte 84 (2017). ISSN 1611-6283, p. 43) formulates that “both locomotive personnel were killed”. It remains unclear whether this meant the stoker and engine driver of the express train locomotive or the locomotive personnel of the express train locomotive and the maneuvering machine.
4. ↑ according to another statement, 65 injured

Individual evidence

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2. ^ NN: railway accident . In: Regensburger Conversations-Blatt No. 67 of June 8, 1870, (p. 4) .
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6. ^ "Blickpunkt" edition 2/2020; Walldorf local history museum in Mörfelden-Walldorf.
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102. ↑ Regional train races in flocks of sheep - 50 animals dead. In: Badische Zeitung (Online) from June 6, 2018
103. ↑ Schäfer puzzles over the death of his 49 sheep. In: Blick (Online) from June 6, 2018, updated June 7, 2018
104. ↑ Report of the Federal Agency for Railway Accident Investigation , published on March 30, 2020.
105. ↑ schr / an: ICE-3 fire on the high-speed route Cologne - Rhine / Main . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 12/2016, p. 628f.
106. ↑ pd / fsch: Nightjet collides with construction vehicle . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 12/2016, p. 642f.
107. ↑ schr: Freight car fire paralyzes the right stretch of the Rhine . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 3/2019, p. 153.
108. ↑ Near Rendsburg: Many people injured after a train accident
109. ↑ pd / schr: Centralbahn car on the Berlin Stadtbahn burnt out . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 12/2009, p. 661.
110. ↑ pd / schr: BEU informs about the Centralbahn car fire in Berlin . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 3/2020, p. 116.
111. ↑ schr: Frankfurt Hbf: buffer stop impact with injured . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 3/2020, p. 118.
112. ↑ pd / schr: Two accidents with Vectron MS from DB Cargo . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 3/2020, p. 120.
113. ↑ pd / schr: Many rail accidents in early February . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 3/2020, p. 157.
114. ↑ schr: Flank drive in Würzburg slows down freight traffic . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 4/2020, p. 213.
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116. ↑ Armored train brushes against the station bridge in Weißwasser In: Lausitzer Rundschau (online) of March 8, 2020
117. ↑ The railway bridge in Weißwasser has to be rebuilt
118. ↑ sda / an: Rolling highway collides with fallen bridge part . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 5/2020, p. 251.
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