Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Bangladesh - List of rail accidents in Bangladesh; China - List of rail accidents in China; India - List of Indian rail incidents; Indonesia - List of railway accidents & incidents in Indonesia; Iran - List of Iranian rail accidents; Japan - Category:Railway accidents and incidents in Japan; Pakistan - List of railway accidents and incidents in ...
Rail transport; Train wreck; Tram accident; Train-pedestrian fatalities This page was last edited on 26 July 2024, at 20:09 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
Rhode Island's deadliest rail disaster is also the first known to be photographed [6] 1855 Gasconade Bridge train disaster, Gasconade, Missouri; 35+ killed plus hundreds injured. First deadly rail bridge collapse in U.S. history [7] [8] 1856 Great Train Wreck of 1856, Whitemarsh Township, Pennsylvania; 60+ killed plus 100+ injured.
January 14 – Ghana – An express train derailed between Accra and Kumasi, killing at least 21 people and injuring about 200. [10]January 19 – France – An RER A express train in Paris at Auber station crashed, killing one person and injuring 73 in a rear-end collision caused by the train driver misunderstanding a new signaling system installed only two days earlier.
July 26 – Portugal – While approaching Oporto, an Automara train speeding around a curve at Custóias at about 60 mph (100 km/h) saw its rear car break free, derail, and smashed into an overbridge in the Portugal's worst ever train accident. Ninety-four people died.
January 4 – Pakistan – Sukkur rail disaster: A Multan–Karachi Bahauddin Zakaria Express collided head-on with an empty freight train at Sangi station, Sukkur, Sindh.The train was to pass through Sangi, but incorrectly set rail points directed the train to a siding where the freight train was parked. 307 people were killed and another 700 more injured in Pakistan's worst rail disaster.
The Quintinshill rail disaster was a multi-train rail crash which occurred on 22 May 1915 outside the Quintinshill signal box near Gretna Green in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. It resulted in the deaths of over 200 people and remains the worst rail disaster in British history .
The Harmelen train disaster, on 8 January 1962, 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 line.