List of rail accidents in Canada

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The Canadian Rail Accident List lists, in chronological order, accidents in Canadian rail transport that resulted in loss of life or great damage.

19th century

• The Baptiste Creek Railway Accident was when an express train crashed into a construction train on October 27, 1854 near Baptiste Creek Station , now Jeannettes Creek , in Chatham-Kent , Ontario , in which 52 people were killed.
• In the railway accident on the Desjardins Canal Bridge on March 12, 1857, a derailed passenger train near Hamilton , Ontario damaged a bridge, which then collapsed. 59 deaths were to be mourned.
• In the railway accident on the Belœil Bridge in Québec on June 29, 1864, the train driver overlooked a signal that was supposed to secure the Belœil Bridge , a swing bridge over the Rivière Richelieu . At least 99 dead and over 100 injured were the victims of the worst rail accident in Canada to date.

20th century

• In the Sudbury railway accident on January 21, 1910, a derailed train crashed into a river. 37 people died.
• The Rogers Pass railway accident in British Columbia was an avalanche disaster on March 4, 1910, in which 62 railway workers were killed, only one survived. It is the worst avalanche accident in Canada to date.
• The Almonte railway accident was a rear-end collision between two trains on December 27, 1942 at Almonte , Ontario station , in which 36 people died and over 200 were injured.
• The Dugald rail accident was a head-on collision between two passenger trains in Dugald , Manitoba on September 1, 1947, killing 31 people.
• In the Mississauga rail accident on November 10, 1979, a chemical-laden freight train exploded near Mississauga , Ontario . After that, 200,000 to 250,000 people had to be evacuated.
• The Dalehurst rail accident was the head-on collision of a freight train with a passenger train on the Canadian National Railway's transcontinental route on February 8, 1986 near Hinton , Alberta . 23 people died.
• The Russell Hill rail accident was a rear-end collision on the Yonge University Line of the Toronto subway . On August 11, 1995, shortly after six o'clock in the evening, a driver crashed into a train standing in the tunnel under Russell Hill north of Dupont station . Three people were killed and 30 others were injured, some seriously.

21st century

• In the railway accident in Brandywine Falls Provincial Park on August 5, 2005, nine tank cars of the Canadian National Railway , filled with sodium hydroxide , fell into the Cheakamus River , killing an estimated 500,000 fish.
• The Lac-Mégantic railway accident occurred in the small town of Lac-Mégantic in the province of Québec when a driverless freight train of the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway derailed on the Brookport – Mattawamkeag line on July 6, 2013 at around 1:15 a.m. Some of the crude oil leaking from the destroyed tank wagons caught fire in an explosive manner, killing at least 47 people and destroying more than 30 buildings.
• In the Hudson Bay railway accident on July 5, 2018, the weekly VIA Rail train 693 derailed from Winnipeg to The Pas on a single-track route as a result of an embankment about 37 km north of the city of Hudson Bay . The train carried a baggage car and five passenger cars (the one running at the end of the train was an observation car ) and was pulled by two diesel locomotives. Only 16 passengers were on the train when both locomotives and the following baggage car and the first passenger car derailed at around 50 km / h. The cars all stopped upright, the other vehicles fell to one side. There were still no injuries. The accident site is in a swamp and was difficult to reach for the rescue workers.

See also

• List of serious accidents in rail transport
• Navigation bar lists of railway accidents

Individual evidence

1. ↑ THE MARKER - Official Newsletter of the Alberta Pioneer Railway Association 25/4 (2006), p. 3
2. ^ William A. Shepard (ed.): Full Details of the Railway Disaster of the 12th of March, 1857, at the Desjardin Canal on the Line of the Great Western Railway . Shepard & Co., Hamilton 1857
3. ↑ Disasters ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia . Retrieved September 16, 2019.
4. ^ Peter WB Semmens: Catastrophes on rails. A worldwide documentation. Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71030-3 , p. 36.
5. ^ Katie Findlay: "Preparations for Rogers Pass memorial ceremony in Grizzly Plaza underway. In: Revelstoke Times Review of March 1, 2010 ( Memento of March 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
6. ^ Peter WB Semmens: Catastrophes on rails. A worldwide documentation. Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71030-3 , pp. 107-108.
7. ↑ Manitoba Historical Society (Ed.): The Dugald Train Disaster, 1947
8. ↑ City of Mississauga (Ed.): Mississauga Train Derailment . Mississauga 1979
9. ^ Peter WB Semmens: Catastrophes on rails. A worldwide documentation. Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71030-3 .
10. ^ Canadian Railway Office of Arbitration (ed.): Case No. 1677, heard at Montreal, Thursday July 16, 1987, concerning Canadian National Railways and United Transportation Union: Dismissal of Conductor WR Smith, Jasper, Alberta, July 25, 1986
11. ↑ Ten years after. Transit Toronto, August 6, 2005, accessed July 30, 2010 . 
12. ↑ The Pacific Stream Keepers Federation - Cheakamus River spill , accessed on January 17, 2017
13. ^ Accident au Canada: le Saint-Laurent menacé, possible explication. AFP, accessed July 9, 2013 . 
14. ↑ pd / fsch: Viarail train derailed in Canada . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 8–9 / 2018, p. 434.