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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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Brétigny-sur-Orge, Île-de-France: 7 32 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. [2]
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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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(October 22, 1895) October 22 – France – Montparnasse derailment — At Gare Montparnasse, Paris, an express train overran a buffer stop because the driver approached the station too fast and a Westinghouse air brake failure. It crossed about 30 metres (98 ft) of concourse before plummeting through a window and crushing one person in a shop ...