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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 ...
It is a 5 mi (8.0 km) 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) gauge line electrified using overhead wires at 550 v DC with bow collectors and uses a Fell centre rail for braking, rising to a 2,034 ft (620 m) summit. August 28 – The Douglas Park branch of the Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad in Chicago begins service between Marshfield Avenue junction ...
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The deadly train crash in Odisha on Friday has left nearly 300 people dead and over 900 injured, making it one of the deadliest in India’s history and the worst this century.
List of rail accidents in France; P. Paris Métro train fire This page was last edited on 8 May 2021, at 11:50 (UTC). Text is ...