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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 ...
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 ...
Nothing Like It In the World is a narrative history of the planning and construction of the Pacific Railroad during the 1860s which connected the San Francisco Bay and Council Bluffs, Iowa by rail. [1] Written by popular historian Stephen Ambrose, it was first published in August 2000, by Simon & Schuster.
On 3 June 1998, part of an ICE 1 train on the Hannover–Hamburg railway near Eschede in Lower Saxony, Germany derailed and crashed into an overpass that crossed the railroad, which then collapsed onto the train. 101 people were killed and at least 88 were injured, making it the second-deadliest railway disaster in German history after the 1939 Genthin rail disaster, and the world's worst ever ...
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.
What a crazy year it's been for investors. The S&P 500 jumped over 8% by May, only to turn around and find itself down over 10% in August, mainly as a result of the European debt crisis and ...
July 6 – United States – Boone, Iowa: Honey Creek Bridge rail disaster: A Chicago and North Western Railway locomotive ran tender-first, westbound over the line out of Boone to check the tracks during a heavy summer rainstorm in the Des Moines River Valley and plunged into Honey Creek as the weakened bridge collapsed. Two railway employees ...
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 ...