File Harmelentrain disaster.jpg thumb Aftermath of the disaster The Harmelentraindisaster was the worst railway accident in the history of the Netherlands . Harmelen , in the central Netherlands, is the location of a railway junction where a branch to Amsterdam leaves the Rotterdam to Utrecht city Utrecht line. It is common at high speed junctions to avoid the use of diamond crossings wherever possible &mdash instead a Double junction Ladder ladder crossing is employed where trains destined for the branch line cross over to the track normally employed for trains travelling in the opposite direction .... The junction itself was later rebuilt as a flying junction . Previously the Weesp traindisaster of 1918 had been the worst railway disaster in the Netherlands. Similar accidents Schiedam traindisaster South Holland, Netherlands Beresfield rail disaster New South Wales, Australia Violet Town railway disaster Victoria, Australia See also Automatic Train Protection Automatische treinbe nvloeding Train stop s External links http danger ahead.railfan.net accidents harmelen home.html Danger Ahead site includes photographs of the disaster 1962 railway accidents coord 52 06 17 N 4 57 23 E display title ... 1962, a foggy day, a Rotterdam to Amsterdam train consisting of electric multiple unit sets 700 ... train from Utrecht to Rotterdam, hauled by electric locomotive 1131, was approaching at about 100 km h 62 mph . Perhaps because of the foggy weather, the driver of the train from Utrecht missed the warning ... train and three on the express train were destroyed. Of approximately 500 people aboard the trains, 93 lost their lives, including the drivers of both trains. wide image Harmelen fly over.jpg ... on Dutch railways of the system of automatic train protection known as Automatische treinbe nvloeding ... accidents in 1962 Category 1962 in the Netherlands nl Treinramp bij Harmelen pl Katastrofa kolejowa w Harmelen ... more details
Summary Non free use rationale Article Harmelentraindisaster Description Historic photograph of the Harmelentraindisaster Source http www.internaathetposthuis.nl harmelen.html Portion Supposedly full portion Low resolution Low resolution Purpose Illustrating the Harmelentraindisaster , this is the most iconic picture of the disaster and there s no free replacement which captures the event in the same way. Fair use in the USA is allowed as with other iconic pictures. Replaceability N, historic image unlikely to be replaced with a free image. other information Licensing Non free historic image ... more details
harmelen Stationsweb.nl ref In 1962, two passenger trains collided near Harmelen. The Harmelentraindisaster , resulting in 93 fatalities, was the largest train accident in Dutch history. The village ...Infobox settlement name Harmelen settlement type Town other name if different from name native name if different from name native name lang nl image skyline Kerk Harmelen.JPG image alt image caption Catholic church in Harmelen, designed by Jan Stuyt image flag image shield Harmelen wapen.jpg nickname motto image map LocatieWoerden.png map caption image map1 Map NL Woerden Harmelen.png map caption1 Harmelen in the municipality of Woerden. pushpin map Netherlands pushpin label position pushpin map caption Location in the Netherlands subdivision type List of sovereign states Country subdivision name Netherlands subdivision type1 Provinces of the Netherlands Province subdivision name1 Utrecht province Utrecht subdivision type2 List of municipalities of the Netherlands Municipality subdivision name2 Woerden leader title leader name leader party latd 52 latm 5 lats 22 latNS N longd 4 longm 57 longs 39 longEW E coordinates region NL coordinates type region NL type city 8374 coordinates display inline,title coordinates footnotes elevation m elevation min m elevation max m area footnotes area ... Harmelen is a town in the Netherlands Dutch province of Utrecht province Utrecht . It is a part of the municipality of Woerden , and lies about 6 km east of Woerden. In 2001, the town of Harmelen ... bevolkingskernen in nederland.htm . Statistics are for the continuous built up area. ref Harmelen is on the railway line between Utrecht city Utrecht and Woerden its train station was opened on 21 May ... the municipality of Harmelen had about 8000 inhabitants. References references External links Kuyper Harmelen ut Map of the former municipality in 1868. Dutch municipality Woerden Category Populated places ... nl Harmelen pl Harmelen ... more details
2 ref With 41 deaths and 42 wounded it was the largest traindisaster in History of rail transport in the Netherlands Dutch railway history until 1962 when the Harmelentraindisaster occurred. The 102 train from Amersfoort to Amsterdam derailed near the railway bridge over the Merwedekanaal near ...File Weesp 1918 Train Disaster.jpg thumb 300px Damage after the Weesp traindisaster The Weesp traindisaster took place on 13 September 1918 near Weesp in the Netherlands . ref name nvhn nl cite news ..., The rear carriages of the train derailed but remained on the tracks. Emergency aid The disaster happened at 10.25. Two minutes before a train from Amsterdam to Hilversum passed. The station chief of Weesp railway station Weesp station sounded the alarm at 10.45. A surgeon who happened to be on the train ... aid, as well as soldiers who happened to be in the neighbourhood. There were no victims within the train s personnel, they also helped shortly after the disaster. At 11.40 the first aid train arrived ... of the Weesp traindisaster on the site of the Beeldbank Amsterdam 1918 railway accidents Category Railway .... Composition The train was composed of two parts. The front carriages came from Zwolle , the rear ones from Enschede . In Hilversum another carriage was hooked on. The train was finally composed ... and 10.10 from Hilversum. According to the schedule the train should have arrived in Amsterdam on 10.40. The disaster While riding up the slope of the Weesp station towards the bridge over the Merwedekanaal ... for transporting wounded from Amsterdam. After that a Red Cross train arrived. At 12.40 the first wounded and non wounded passengers were able to leave for Amserdam. About 2 1 2 hours after the disaster the first wounded arrived on an aid train at the Amsterdam Muiderpoort railway station Muiderpoort ... carrying 32 corpses followed, which arrived at the Wilhelmina Gasthuis at 16.00. Rerouting of train ... and Utrecht to Amsterdam. Six days after the disaster rail traffic resumed over one track with a maximum ... more details
Infobox rail accident image caption title Guadalajara traindisaster date around January 22, 1915 time location Guadalajara country Mexico line Colima to Guadalajara operator type Derailment cause Brake failure trains 1 pax 900 deaths 600 injuries The Guadalajara traindisaster occurred around 22 January 1915 in Mexico and killed over 600 people. The Mexican Revolution was in full swing by 1915. After the assassination of Francisco Madero two years earlier, the presidency of the country was assumed by Victoriano Huerta , but revolutionary forces led by Venustiano Carranza and Pancho Villa overthrew him and Carranzo became president in 1914. Villa however wanted to continue the revolution and an armed struggle ensued. On January 18, 1915 Carranzo s troops captured Guadalajara in southwestern Mexico. He immediately ordered that the families of his troops be transported by train from Colima on the Pacific coast to his newly captured stronghold. Around January 22, 1915 a special train of twenty cars left Colima. It was packed, with people even clinging to the roofs and undercarriages. Somewhere between Colima and Guadalajara the engineer lost control on a long steep descent. As the train gathered speed many people were thrown off as the train negotiated curves. Eventually the entire train plunged off the tracks and into a deep canyon, with less than 300 of the 900 on board surviving the disaster. Some of Carranza s troops, Yaqui people Yaqui Indians committed suicide when hearing of the death of their families. Others swore vengeance on the train crew but they had also been killed in the disaster. Source Railroad Wrecks by Edgar A. Haine, publ 1993, page 175, ISBN 0 8453 4844 2 coord missing Mexico Category Railway accidents in 1915 Category 1915 in Mexico Category Railway accidents in Mexico Category Runaway train disasters ... more details
The Gasconade Bridge traindisaster was a rail accident at Gasconade, Missouri on November 1, 1855. At the time of the disaster, the Pacific Railroad was being built west from St. Louis toward the Pacific Ocean. It had been completed to Jefferson City , 125 miles to the west. On November 1 on a day of rain, an inaugural train carrying some 600 invited visitors and dignitaries, set out from St. Louis. As the train started to pass over the Gasconade Bridge, a 760 foot wooden structure spanning the Gasconade River , the span between the bank and the first pier collapsed. It consisted of temporary trestle work. The Locomotive engine and all but one of the 15 Railroad car cars fell off the tracks, some going through the broken wooden timbers, and others rolling down the bank into the river. Thirty one people were killed, and hundreds were injured, making this the worst railroad disaster in Missouri history. Many of the dead were buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis. ref cite web url http www.wikilou.com wiki index.php?title Gasconade Bridge TrainDisaster title Gasconade Bridge TrainDisaster publisher WikiLou website accessdate 2008 08 22 ref References reflist Information not specifically attributed comes from cite web url http cprr.org Museum Gasconade Disaster.html title Remembering the Gasconade Disaster author Bob Aubuchon publisher Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum accessdate 2008 08 22 coord 38.669211 91.553278 scale 10000 display title Category 1855 in Missouri Category Bridge disasters in the United States Category Disasters in Missouri Category Railway accidents in the United States Category Missouri Pacific Railroad Category Railway accidents in 1855 Category Gasconade County, Missouri Category Rail transportation in Missouri ... more details
The Hommelvik traindisaster was a train collision at Hommelvik Station , on the Mer ker Line in Norway . On 19 November 1940, a train with workers from Trondheim Central Station to Trondheim Airport, V rnes collided with the local train from Kopper just east of Hommelvik Station. The Hommelvik traindisaster killed 22 people. The trains were supposed to have passed at Hommelvik Station, but the engineer thought he had seen the other train, and had left the station. The accident occurred at 08 03, and was caused by there being virtually no light to see with, since all outdoor sources of light were covered. ref name sommerset cite journal title Hommelvik ulykken url http www.njk.no ps psix faksimiler.htm author Sommerset, Arild journal P Sporet year 1982 volume 35 pages 32 35 ref References reflist Railway accidents in Norway coord missing Norway Category Railway accidents in Norway Category 1940 in rail transport Category 1940 in Norway Category Mer kerbanen Category Malvik Category Rail transport in S r Tr ndelag norway rail transport stub norway hist stub no Hommelvik ulykken ... more details
Infobox rail accident title Hoofddorp traindisaster boxwidth image Hoofddorp traindisaster by Cor Mulder ANP .jpg image width 220px caption The aftermath of the Hoofddorp traindisaster date 30 November 1992 time 7.15 CET location Near Hoofddorp location dist location dist mi location dir location city coordinates Coord LAT LONG type landmark display inline,title country Netherlands line operator Nederlandse Spoorwegen type cause The train driver wasn t warned that he had to slow down for railway works. As a result of a too high speed the train derailed. trains pax deaths 5 ref name telegraaf nl cite news url http kranten.kb.nl view article id ddd 3A010691751 3Ampeg21 3Ap007 3Aa2160 title Machinist Ik wist niets van maximum snelheid Ramptrein reed te snel bij Hoofddorp work De Telegraaf date February 27, 1993 accessdate January 04, 2012 page 7 ref injuries 33 damage map map name map state The Hoofddorp traindisaster in the Netherlands Dutch municipality Haarlemmermeer took place on 30 november 1992. Whilst en route to Vlissingen a passenger train of the type NS Intercity Materieel Koploper derailed at about 7.15 near Hoofddorp . 5 people were killed and 33 were wounded in the accident Two days earlier an international train from Amsterdam to Paris derailed at nearly the same location. Cause At the site of the accident an S curve had been constructed because of railway works. In this S curve the maximum speed had been reduced from 90 to 60 km h because of repairs to the rails as a consequence of the derailment two days earlier. The investigation concluded that the train driver had driven the train at a minimum speed of 106 km h. He had not been aware of the speed limitation as he got insufficient information from the train dispatcher s. ref name telegraaf References Reflist External links nl http www.brandweerkennisnet.nl publish pages 1563 07 26 rampen en ongevallen leermomenten voor de overheid.pdf Rampen en ongevallen Leermomenten voor de Overheid? , doctoraalscriptie ... more details
Arzamas explosion , known also as Arzamas traindisaster occurred on June 4, 1988, when three cars transporting hexogen to Kazakhstan exploded on the railway crossing in Arzamas , Gorky Oblast , USSR now Nizhny Novgorod Oblast , Russia . The 118 tons of hexogen caused major damage in the city, killing 91 people and injuring 1500. 151 buildings were destroyed. Reflist External links http www.volgaflot.com index.phtml?l eng&s 4&url index.phtml?l eng&s 4&url 2104.html See also Ufa traindisaster coord missing Nizhny Novgorod Oblast 1988 railway accidents DEFAULTSORT Arzamas TrainDisaster Category Railway accidents in 1988 Category Railway accidents in Russia Category Nizhny Novgorod Oblast Category 1988 in the Soviet Union Category Explosions in Russia Category 20th century explosions Category Railway accidents in the Soviet Union Russia hist stub Euro rail stub ru ... more details
Refimprove date March 2011 In the Balvano traindisaster of March 2 3, 1944, some 426 people illegally riding a steam hauled freight train died of carbon monoxide poisoning when the train stalled on a steep gradient in the Armi tunnel. ref http www.trivia library.com a railroad disaster on the balvano limited part 1.htm Railroad Disaster on the Balvano ref The accident occurred in southern Italy , near Balvano Basilicata . Circumstances Naples suffered severe wartime shortages, encouraging an extensive black market . Opportunists in the city began bartering fresh produce for commodities brought by servicemen, and stowed away on freight trains to reach their suppliers farms. The railway companies also experienced shortages of good quality coal . The burning of low grade substitutes produced a large volume of odorless, poisonous carbon monoxide gas, a critical factor of the ensuing disaster. The accident Just after 6 P.M. on March 2, 1944 the locomotive No. 8017, reached Eboli , beyond Battipaglia . At about 11 40 P.M. the train carried many illegal passengers. The tunnel was graded steeply and the freight train grossly overloaded with its passengers. The train stalled with almost all the cars inside the tunnel. The passengers and crew were overcome by the smoke and fumes so slowly that they failed to notice the dangers. Most of the few survivors were in the last few cars which were still in the open air. Much carbon monoxide gas was produced as a by product of combustion , and carbon monoxide poisoning is a well recognized danger when machines are used, or fires occur in enclosed environments. It combines with haemoglobin when inhaled, so the victim dies of Hypoxia medical anoxia lack of oxygen . It is still the principal cause of death in mine disaster s after a fire or explosion . See also Lists of rail accidents Further reading cite book last Barneschi first Gianluca ... Category Railway accidents in Italy Category Tunnel disasters Europe rail transport stub disaster stub ... more details
The Hjukseb traindisaster was a rail accident on the railway S rlandsbanen on 15 November 1950 between ... the Tretten traindisaster in 1975. The accident was caused by runaway freight cars running into an express passenger train. Prelude to the disaster The passenger train was no. 72, en route from Kristiansand ... Hjukseb ulykken, et dystert 30 rs minne The Hjukseb traindisaster, a horrific 30 year memorial ... as a lyntog lightning train . In the control car rail control car at the front of the train was driver Emil Grimsrud. It had left Kristiansand at 08 00, by the time the train left Nordagutu at 10 45 it was eight minutes behind schedule. Up at Hjukseb station, at 10 40 passenger train no. 5443 ... assembled at this track were seven freight cars, which were supposed to be attached to train no. 5444, on a trip back to Notodden. In order to ready this train, these freight cars would need to be shunted ... from Hjukseb Normally, the operation of preparing the freight train would wait until the passenger express train from Kristiansand had passed through Hjukseb , but on this day the shunter at the station ... that there was sufficient time to execute the turn around operation now. The engine of train 5443 was detached ... at the front were not attached to the rest of the train. South of Hjukseb , the line slopes downwards ... to stop the incoming passenger train no. 72. The call was too late, and the runaway freight cars and the train .... The express train was moving at 70 75 km h, in spite of its emergency brake being pulled in the seconds ... train where the train driver and 19 passengers were sitting. The driver and 11 passengers ... to the wreckage site with burners who could cut the trapped passengers away from the mangled train. The two remaining cars in the wreckage were not seriously damaged, and a salvage train from Skien ... 06 a hospital train left Drammen towards the wreck site, but by the time it arrived at 13 30 the injured ... demands that NSB compensate the survivors of the Hjukseb disaster victims, and the injured passengers ... more details
The Mer ker traindisaster occurred on 23 January 1941 at Mer ker Station on the Mer ker Line in Norway . A coke and coal train from Sweden lost its braking between the national border and Kopper Station . The six back cars plus the caboose derail ed just west of Kopper , while the locomotive and 17 other trains continued their wild flight. The train derailed at Mer ker Station, killing both the engineer and the stoker. ref cite book title Merakerbanen 100 r author R e, Tormod publisher Historielaga i Stj rdalsf ret year 1982 pages 53 isbn 82 990879 0 2 ref References reflist Railway accidents in Norway coord missing Norway Category Railway accidents in Norway Category 1941 in rail transport Category 1941 in Norway Category Mer kerbanen Category Runaway train disasters norway rail transport stub ... more details
In the Bihar traindisaster on June 6, 1981, a passenger train carrying 800 or more passengers ref name spig between Mansi, India Mansi and Saharsa , India derailed and plunged into the river Bagmati while it was crossing a bridge. After five days, more than 200 bodies were recovered, with hundreds more missing that were feared washed away by the river. ref cite news url http www.nytimes.com 1981 06 09 world around the world toll from train crash reaches 215 in india.html title AROUND THE WORLD Toll From Train Crash Reaches 215 in India last REUTERS date June 9, 1981 publisher New York Times accessdate 6 June 2010 ref ref name spig Estimates of total deaths range from 500 to 800 or more. ref name spig cite book last Spignesi first Stephen J. title Catastrophe the 100 greatest disasters of all time year 2004 publisher Citadel Press page 182 ref The cause of the accident is uncertain as there are multiple causes listed online a cyclone ref http news.bbc.co.uk 2 hi middle east 3502075.stm BBC, Iran mourns train blast victims See sidebar at bottom of page ref flash flood ing ref Dead link date June 2010 http www.cbsnews.com elements 2004 04 22 in depth world timeline613204 0 main.shtml CBS ref brake failure while trying to avoid hitting a domestic buffalo water buffalo ref http www.disaster management.net train acc india.htm Emergency Disaster Management, Inc., Train Wrecks in India ref See also Lists of rail accidents References references coord missing Bihar 1981 railway accidents Category Railway accidents in India Category Railway accidents in 1981 Category 1981 in India Category Disasters in Bihar India rail transport stub disaster stub ar ... more details
unreferenced date August 2011 The Gaisal traindisaster occurred on 2 August 1999, when two trains carrying 2,500 people collided at the remote station of Gaisal , 310 miles from the city of Gauhati in Assam . The crash was at such high speeds that the trains actually exploded upon impact killing at least 285 people. The crash occurred at about 1.30am on 2 August, when the Awadh Assam Express from New Delhi was stationary at the station. The Brahmaputra Mail from Dibrugarh , packed with soldiers and security police heading for the border regions at very high speed, through a signalling error, was transferred onto the same track as the express train. Nobody noticed the error on either train, or in the signals office, until the Brahmaputra Mail train crashed headlong into the front of the Awadh Assam Express. The engine of the Awadh Assam was thrown high in the air, and passengers from both trains were blown into neighbouring buildings and fields by the force of the explosion. The line was blocked by wreckage, and the Gaisal emergency services were utterly overwhelmed, as fire swept through the ruined vehicles and station buildings, killing many of the injured people trapped in the trains. Many vehicles and aid support services had to undertake the 14 hour drive from Calcutta to reach the site, by which time many of those they could have helped were already dead. Those who were picked up by rescuers were taken to hospitals in Kishanganj and Islampur Uttar Dinajpur Islampur , which were also overwhelmed by the scale of the disaster. Heavy rains helped dampen fires the following day, and rescue workers began trying to separate the twelve mangled carriages of the train and identify ... issue. This was the worst Indian rail disaster since the Firozabad rail disaster in 1995, and is comparable to the Bihar traindisaster of 1981, in which as many as 800 people were reported to have ... on the military train may have been the cause of the explosion following the impact, rather than ... more details
infobox rail accident image title Naka Meguro traindisaster date 8 March 2000 time approx 9 00 am location Near Naka Meguro Station line Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line country Japan operator Tokyo Metro type Derailment cause cause trains 2 pax deaths 5 injuries 63 The Naka Meguro traindisaster occurred in Japan on 8 March 2000. Five people were killed and 63 were injured when a derailed Eidan Hibiya Line train was sideswiped by a second train near Naka Meguro Station . Accident events At around 9 a.m. on 8 March 2000, the rearmost car of an eight car Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line Eidan Hibiya Line now Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line train from Kita Senju Station Kita Senju to Kikuna Station Kikuna derailed on the tight curve immediately before Naka Meguro Station . The derailed car was then hit by the fifth and sixth cars of an eight car Tobu Railway train travelling in the opposite direction from Naka Meguro to Takenotsuka Station Takenotsuka . Factors It is generally the case that the distance between the tracks less the width of the carriages only allows about 600mm, so that if a train derails on the same side as the other track, it will almost certainly be foul of the other track, making a collision inevitable. Track circuits do not detect derailments, so it requires prompt action from the train crew to warn the opposing train. See also List of rail accidents 2000 2009 Waterfall traindisaster derailment caused by overspeed. References refbegin Failure Knowledge Database http shippai.jst.go.jp fkd Detail?fn 0&id CA0000608& Retrieved on 27 August 2008 ja icon refend reflist 2000 railway accidents Japan rail transport stub coord missing Japan Category Railway accidents in Japan Category Railway accidents in 2000 Category 2000 in Japan Category Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line ko ja zh ... more details
West diesel car. title Shigaraki traindisaster date May 14, 1991 time 10 35 location Koka, Shiga ... injuries 614 The Nihongo Shigaraki traindisaster Shigaraki K gen Tetsud sh totsu jiko ... , Japan on May 14, 1991. A Shigaraki K gen Railway SKR train and a West Japan Railway Company JR West train head on collision collided head on , killing 42 people and injuring 614 others. Until the Amagasaki rail crash in 2005, this was the deadliest railway disaster in Japan since the Tsurumi ... Signal Station and Shigarakig shi Station Shigarakig shi . A special JR West rapid service train ... local train 534D had left Shigaraki and headed for Kibukawa Station Kibukawa , despite a red signal ... line where two trains can safely pass, but the JR West train had already gone past that signal station, as it was given a green signal despite the approaching SKR train. The signal station has been inactivated since the disaster. Causes Background and Sequence of events should go here The primary causes of the accidents were SKR officials allowing the eastbound SKR train to signal passed at danger pass red signals and the failed interlocking that allowed the westbound JR West train to advance ... to the signal system, which led to the confusion that prompted the SKR staff to send a train against a red signal, and the faulty wiring that showed the JR West train a green signal, when the approaching SKR train should have turned the signal to red. Response to the accident Image SKR Shigaraki traindisaster site.jpg thumb right Memorial at the crash site SKR suspended passenger service while ..., the two companies have had a complaint set against them for having negligence for the victims of the traindisaster. In the same year, the two companies were put on trial in the tsu, Shiga Otsu ... Court. JR West discontinued through train operations to the Shigaraki Line, while other Japan Railways Group companies similarly discontinued non regular through train operations to private and Third ... more details
The Sarai Banjara rail disaster occurred on 2 December 2000, when a derailed freight train crossed onto the opposite track early in the morning in Punjab, India . A passenger train coming the other direction hit the freight train head on at speed, killing 46 people and injuring at least 150. The accident started when a cracked rail on the line between Mandi Gobindgarh and Rajpura in Punjab India Punjab derailed a large freight train at 5.40am without causing any injuries. The derailed train was covering both sides of the track, and so the driver dismounted to give a warning. As he was walking to the train office in Sarai Banjara , the Howrah Mail train travelling between Calcutta and Amritsar crashed into the derailed freight train head on at high speed. Although the wreckage did not catch fire, the devastation was serious, with jack knifed carriages, twisted metal and the sheer number of injured people hampering the immediate rescue efforts. Ambulances arrived to take the injured to hospital, whilst local people, working alongsde railway officials and emergency services tried to free the survivors trapped in the wreckage. The final death toll was given as 46 killed and over 150 injured in the crash, although there have been some claims that over 50 people were killed. As is the custom in India , the rail authorities promised by way of compensation 15,000 rupees to the families of the dead, 5,000 rupees to those seriously injured, and 500 to those with minor injuries. Some politicians involved in the investigation initially believed that sabotage may have caused the goods train to derail, but a subsequent investigation concluded that the accident was entirely the result of poor track maintenance, combined with an inefficient warning system in case of emergency. The sabotage claim has been suggested by some as a ruse to disguise the dilapidated state of India s rail network ... to feel safe in a train. The site of the crash was not far from that of the Khanna rail disaster ... more details
Infobox rail accident image Beloeil bridge train accident, 1864.jpg title St Hilaire traindisaster date 29 June 1864 time 1 20am location Mont Saint Hilaire, Quebec country Canada line Grand Trunk Railroad operator type Derailment cause Human error trains 1 pax 354 475 deaths 99 injuries 100 The St Hilaire traindisaster was a railroad disaster that occurred on June 29, 1864 near the present day town of Mont Saint Hilaire, Quebec . The train, which had been carrying many German and Polish immigrants, failed to acknowledge a stop light and fell through an open swing bridge into the Richelieu River . Though uncertain, the widely accepted death toll is 99 persons. ref name HFoC2 cite web title Grand Trunk Railway of Canada publisher Historica Foundation of Canada url http www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com index.cfm?PgNm TCE&Params A1ARTA0003380 accessdate 2011 04 11 ref The disaster remains the worst railway accident in Canadian history. ref name HFoC cite web title Railways publisher Historica ... 2008 12 18 ref Disaster On June 29, 1864 a Grand Trunk train carrying between 354 and 475 ... name HFoC ref name LaAC cite web title Railway Disaster publisher Library and Archives Canada url ... October 2010 bot H3llBot ref At around 1 20 a.m. local time the train was approaching a swing bridge ... a mile ahead of the bridge signalled to the train that the crossing was open and it needed to slow ..., William Burnie, and the train continued towards the bridge. ref name NYTimes ref name McCord cite ... the train came onto the bridge and fell through an open gap. The engine and eleven coaches fell through the gap one after another on top of each other crushing a passing barge. The train sank into an area of the river with a depth of 10 feet. ref name HFoC 99 people aboard the train were killed and 100 more were injured. ref name HFoC Among the dead was Thomas Finn and the fireman aboard the train. The engineer was hurt slightly in the accident but was able to escape the wreck. The disaster was blamed ... more details
New Zealand Tangiwai disaster lahar undermines bridge. flagicon India Veligonda traindisaster flagicon India Quilon rail disaster Perumon traindisaster External links http news.bbc.co.uk 1 hi ...The Kadalundi River rail disaster was one of the biggest accidents on the India n railway network in 2001. On 21 July, the Mangalore Mail commuter train heading for Chennai was crossing the Kadalundi River in the state of Kerala near Calicut on Bridge 924, when four carriages derailed and fell into the river. Overview The monsoon rains had been very heavy that year, and some believe that this contributed to the problems on the bridge that caused one of the rails to break as the heavy train passed over them. The bridge was 140 years old and in a poor state of repair, and it shifted when the line broke, derailing the train. As it shifted the first four carriages, including the women only carriage and the engine, fell into the swollen river, two being submerged totally, and two others partially submerged. Rescue parties, totalling over 500 people from nearby towns, entered the river to rescue people from the wrecked carriages, and support was also received from fire brigades and the Indian Navy , who sent fifty professional divers to attempt to rescue those trapped in the underwater railway cars. Railway officials and family members also arrived rapidly with the aid of a special train. The death toll for the accident rose steadily as bodies were retrieved from the wreckage over the course of a week, but a figure of 57 people was eventually reported as killed or missing, including at least eight women and two children, whilst between 117 and 300 were injured and transported to nearby hospitals. These figures were still challenged by some, who said the toll was higher and that a number ... had sunk into the river, causing an uneven kink in the track, which snapped when the train hit it. Subsequent .... These investigators claim that there was a fault with the train itself, and that the bridge theory ... more details
Nofootnotes article date February 2008 The Igandu traindisaster was an accident which occurred during the early morning of the 24 June 2002 in the East African country of Tanzania when a large passenger train with over 1,200 people on board rolled backwards down a hill into a stationary goods train, killing 281 people in the worst rail accident in African history. Overview The train had travelled from Dar es Salaam to the state of Dodoma national capital?? in Central Tanzania, had passed Msagali , and was nearing the city of Dodoma, when it began climbing the tracks at a hill called Igandu. It is believed that there was a fault with the train s Brake railway brakes as it climbed the hill. The driver stopped the train near the summit of the hill, inspected and adjusted the braking system and climbed back into the cab. When he started the train again, the brakes failed totally, causing the train to roll, with great velocity, straight back down the hill, crashing into a stationary goods train waiting at the bottom. Local people joined with ambulance services to rescue as many as they could. The shortage of doctors at Dodoma hospital was so severe that the Tanzanian health minister, Dr. Anna Abdallah was obliged to help with the more than 400 people badly injured. Rescue teams were also hampered by the lack of large cutting machinery or industrial equipment needed to cut or lift wreckage off injured people, which did not arrive until the evening. Four days after the incident, the Tanzanian government released a statement to the effect that 281 people had been killed by the crash ... Gare de Lyon train accident 1988 flagicon Mozambique Tenga rail disaster 2002 References reflist ... , that the crash was sabotage committed by angry train union members, protesting the pending sale of the company ... Armagh rail disaster 1889 which resulted in compulsory continuous and automatic brakes and absolute ... Railway accidents in Tanzania Category Runaway train disasters Category Dodoma Region ... more details
coord 51.92655 N 4.39657 E type landmark display title Infobox rail accident title Schiedam traindisaster boxwidth image Treinrampschiedam.jpg image width 250px caption A sprinter collided with an international D train br on the morning of 4 May 1976 near Schiedam date 4 May 1976 time 7.54 CET location Near Schiedam location dist location dist mi location dir location city coordinates Coord LAT LONG type landmark display inline,title country Netherlands line Hoekse Lijn operator Nederlandse Spoorwegen type cause Error by the chief Conductor transportation conductor br and the Railroad engineer driver of Sprinter 4116, br lack of Automatische treinbe nvloeding ATB trains D215 Rhine Express boat train br Sprinter 4116 pax deaths 24 ref name amigoe24 nl cite news url http kranten.kb.nl view article id ddd 3A010460254 3Ampeg21 3Ap001 3Aa0006 title Ramp Schiedam 24 omgekomen page 1 work Amigoe di Curacao date May 5, 1976 accessdate December 01, 2011 ref injuries several tens, 5 severe damage map map name map state The Schiedam traindisaster took place in the Netherlands on 4 May 1976 near the station Schiedam Centrum railway station Schiedam Rotterdam West . ref name amigoeramp nl cite news url http kranten.kb.nl view article id ddd 3A010460253 3Ampeg21 3Ap001 3Aa0001 title Treinramp bij Schiedam page 1 work Amigoe di Curacao date May 4, 1976 accessdate December 01, 2011 ref ref name ... left 250px The location of the Schiedam traindisaster in January 2012 Reflist External links nl http www.zero meridean.nl c schiedam 040576.html Schiedam traindisaster at the Zwaailichten disaster website. nl http nos.nl video 136956 treinramp schiedam 1976.html Video of the disaster on Nederlandse ... December 01, 2011 ref The international Rhine Express boat train D train D215 from Hook of Holland ... of the 2008 , 5 severe casualties and several tens of less severe wounded. The disaster was the second major train crash near Schiedam, following the first major train accident in the Netherlands ... more details
Refimprove date April 2011 File Nidareid sted Trondheim 01.jpg thumb The Nidareid traindisaster took place on the right hand track in this photo. The Nidareid traindisaster was a Lists of rail accidents train collision on 18 September 1921 on the Trondhjem St ren Line Trondhjem St renbanen Rail transport ... , and one of the trains involved was the inaugural train returning from the celebrations in Trondheim ... train accident in Norway. Inaugural train The inaugural train had on September 17 transported Haakon ... which was the highest station on the line. Between there and Trondheim the inaugural train stopped at every station to give the king an opportunity to greet visitors and well wishers. The train pulled ... continued. Extra train for the return Although the king would spend a few days in Trondheim, most ... Oslo . An extra sleeping car night train called Litra D was arranged for them. The local rail district wanted to schedule this train to depart Trondheim at midnight, just after a scheduled day train ... 45, with the intention of meeting and passing no. 361 at Marienborg station. The extra train consisted .... These had also been used in the inaugural train and had doubled as wardrobes for the guests at the line s inauguration. The train was hauled by two NSB Class 30 NSB class 30b engines, 364 and 365. A total of 96 passengers were on board this train. The train left Trondheim at 23 54, a few minutes behind schedule. It received an all clear railway signal signal as the train passed through Skansen station on its way back to Kristiania. Train no. 361 The northbound train no. 361 was on a short ... , leg into Trondheim. This train was pulled by engine 182, an NSB Class 21a engine, at the front, and four ... en route during the coming week. Among these was an extra train, scheduled for night to Monday ... over to the next train had delayed no. 361, and it was 20 minutes behind schedule when ... the train reached Selsbak, where they were scheduled to meet southbound train no. 448, they were ... more details
Location map Czech Republic width 300 float right caption Accident location in the Czech Republic alt Accident location in the Czech Republic label St blov position bottom background lat deg 50 lat min 05 lat sec 21 lon deg 15 lon min 45 lon sec 02 The St blov train disaster was a train wreck railway accident that occurred on November 14, 1960 at 4 45 CET in St blov in Eastern Bohemia , Czechoslovakia . A passenger steam train collided with a diesel railcar at full speed during their departure. 118 people died as a result of the accident and 110 were injured badly. ref cite book last Haine first Edgar A. authorlink coauthors title Railroad Wrecks publisher Cornwall Books date June 1994 location url doi id isbn 0 8453 4844 2 page 235 ref ref cite journal last first authorlink coauthors title 110 DEAD IN CRASH OF 2 CZECH TRAINS 106 Are Injured Seriously in Disaster 68 Miles East of Prague journal The New York Times volume issue pages 9 publisher location date 16 November 1960 url http select.nytimes.com gst abstract.html?res F00C1EFD3F551A7A93C4A8178AD95F448685F9 doi id accessdate 2008 08 21 ref The accident occurred when one of the trains crossed the overlapping tracks without proper permission. The driver received a departure sign, but not from the station officer. Due to foggy conditions, the red light signaling to stop was not seen. When the crash occurred, in order to prevent an explosion, hot coal and ashes had been disposed from one of the steam engines, but caught fire when oil began to leak from the diesel engine train. The victims mostly commuters returning from work were killed due to the fire and smoke. The incident was mentioned only briefly by the national media, if not ignored completely. References reflist coord 50 5 21.11 N 15 45 2.515 E region CZ 532 type landmark display title 1960 railway accidents DEFAULTSORT Steblova train disaster Category Railway accidents in 1960 Category Train and subway fires Category Railway accidents in the Czech Republ ... more details
The Podsosenka traindisaster happened on March 3, 1992 at 5 15 local time near Nelidovo , Tver Oblast in Russia . Passenger train 004 en route from Riga to Moscow failed to stop at restrictive signal, and collided with an oncoming freight train at station Podsosenka. The collision of the two diesel locomotives caused a fire, which spread to the passenger cars. 43 people were killed, and 108 injured. The official report of the railway authorities is cited here ref ru icon cite web title 1992 url http www.parovoz.com phpBB2 viewtopic.php?f 24&t 5438&start 0&st 0&sk t&sd a date 2009 01 10 publisher parovoz.com ref coord missing Tver Oblast Notes references 1992 railway accidents Category Railway accidents in 1992 Category Railway accidents in Russia Category Tver Oblast Category 1992 in Russia Category Train and subway fires Category 1992 fires Category Fires in Russia ru ... more details
The Tretten traindisaster occurred on 22 February 1975 when a northbound train no. 351 from Oslo and a southbound express train no. 404 from Trondheim collided head on Convert 1 km mi 1 sp us north of Tretten station. ref cite web url http www.snl.no Tretten ulykken title Store norske leksikon Tretten ulykken publisher Snl.no date accessdate 2010 03 15 ref With 27 killed, including seven children under 16, ref name Star http news.google.com newspapers?id FrgsAAAAIBAJ&sjid mwoEAAAAIBAJ&pg 2900,4661920&hl en Two Trains Collide Killing 26 sic in Norway , Star News Wilmington Morning Star 24 February 1973. ref and 25 injured, it was the worst train crash in Norway Norwegian peacetime history. ref cite web url http www.dagbladet.no nyheter 2000 01 04 188019.html title Fakta Togulykker med omkomne i Norge Dagbladet publisher Dagbladet.no date 2000 11 13 accessdate 2010 03 15 ref One accident victim was from the United States ref George Lorenzo Goodman, 55, an American musician living in West Germany , http news.google.com newspapers?nid 2002&dat 19750224&id MLMtAAAAIBAJ&sjid PNoFAAAAIBAJ&pg 1658,4782080 27 Killed, 15 Injured when 2 Trains Collide in Norway , Beaver Country Times 24 February 1975. ref while the rest were Norwegians, including the politician T nnes Anden s . Altogether there were around 800 passengers on the two 12 car trains. Most of those killed were in one car of the northbound train. The operators of both trains survived one jumped from the cab before the collision. The accident happened because the northbound train, running late, did not wait at Tretten station to let the other pass. ref name Star One train driver told a newspaper that it was difficult to see ... source kolossus plwiki display title DEFAULTSORT Tretten TrainDisaster Category Railway accidents ... Country Times . ref In the aftermath of the disaster new safety precautions were discussed and introduced ... Disaster stub Norway hist stub Norway rail transport stub no Tretten ulykken pl Katastrofa kolejowa ... more details
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