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This list of railway accidents in Sri Lanka provides details of significant railway crashes in Sri Lanka involving railway rolling stock. Other than these, a number of accidents have taken place. One major type is elephant accidents, which typically occur in the North-Central area. Other accidents occur at unsecured level crossings with road ...
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The 2004 Sri Lanka tsunami train wreck is the largest single rail disaster in world history by death toll, with 1,000 fatalities or more. It occurred when a crowded passenger train (No 50, Matara Express) was destroyed on a coastal railway in Sri Lanka by a tsunami that followed the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. The tsunami subsequently caused ...
Category: Train collisions in Sri Lanka. 1 language. ... 2011 Alawwa rail accident This page was last edited on 15 August 2020, at 23:35 (UTC). ...
Pages in category "Derailments in Sri Lanka" ... 0–9. 2004 Sri Lanka tsunami train wreck; K. Kurunegala train crash
Railway accidents and incidents in Sri Lanka (3 C, 1 P) Road incidents in Sri Lanka (3 C, 1 P) S. Shipwrecks of Sri Lanka (5 P) This page was last edited on 6 April ...
The Yattalgoda train crash was an accident on a Sri Lankan rail line near the town of Kurunegala on 19 August 2001. The Udarata Menike express passenger service from Badulla to Colombo Fort in Sri Lanka was a regular train route which ran on to Colombo. On the day of the accident, the train was grossly overcrowded, with hundreds of people ...
Alawwa rail accident 17 September – Sri Lanka – 2011 Alawwa rail accident: A passenger train rammed into an observation car at the back of another train near Alawwa, about 60 km (37 mi) northeast of Colombo, killing three and injuring more than 30. [99] Olten 6 October – Switzerland – Two trains collided at Olten, injuring two people. [90]