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The Montparnasse derailment occurred at 16:00 on 22 October 1895 when the Granville–Paris Express overran the buffer stop at its Gare Montparnasse terminus. With the train several minutes late and the driver trying to make up for lost time, it approached the station too fast and the driver's application of the train air brake was ineffective.
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A train crash occurred in the commune of Brétigny-sur-Orge in the southern suburbs of Paris, when a passenger train carrying 385 people derailed and hit the station platform. The crash was cited as the most serious in France since the 1988 Gare de Lyon accident in which 56 people were killed.
1895 St. Neots rail accident; Snaefell Mountain Railway This page was last edited on 6 May 2019, at 18:38 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The Gare Montparnasse became famous for the derailment on 22 October 1895 of the Granville–Paris Express, which overran the buffer stop. The engine careened across almost 30 metres (100 ft) of the station concourse, crashed through a 60-centimetre (2 ft) thick wall, shot across a terrace and smashed out of the station, plummeting onto the ...
October 22 – Montparnasse derailment: at the Gare Montparnasse, Paris, France, an express train overruns the buffer stop and crosses more than 30 metres (98 ft) of concourse before plummeting through a window.
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