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This page is a resiprical for deleted rail crashes, which were in my and others' view notable, but wre deleted by the self styled 'notabilaty patrol'.

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A deleater said- " I will remove some less notable or unsourced events from the list and put them here. Feelfree to discuss. I have rough criteria in mind, but typing them would be too long. Circeus 8:27, March 16, 2009 (UTC) The years are missing from the copied elements. "!

Another deleater said- " Remove unsourced events - writing "According to" is NOT an actual reference. User:CalendarWatcher (talk | contribs) ".

Opposing editer tryed to save some and said- " Reinstated Langenweddingen level crossing disaster (now has article). GrahamHardy (talk) 21:59, 9 July 2010 (UTC) "!

And yet another said- " Could someone take a look at this page? I seem to be seeing a lot of gibberish. Jusdafax 16:15, 18 November 2009 (UTC) "!

Oh, yeh?! There safe hear chaps! I agree Josh's death in 2010 was trivial on a global basis as was that guy who fell off the Iraqi train in the late 1990's, but the Tamworth triangle, that Macedonian one from the early 2000's and may others wern't. I did a coupel of the 1990's and 2000's Indian and Indonisian crashes as an I.P. about 3 years ago--Its snowing in East Asia (talk) 15:03, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

1850's

1910's

1920's

  •   December 6, 1927 – Augusta Township, Ontario: A 63 year old farmer named James Patterson was "run over by train and mangled" according to a death certificate filed in Grenville, Augusta.

1930's

  •   December 30, 1939 – A twelve cars of Sicilian Express collision with another nine cars of Reggio Calabria local train, and both passenger train has derailed with killed 40, injured 150 people in railroad station of Torre Annunziata, Campania, Italy. In an incident caused by a track of switch point has icy condition by heavy snow. [citation needed]

1940's

  •   December 11, 1944, – According to some of Japanese source report, a passenger train with freight cars, carrying a dynamite weapon, where explode in Haebaru, Okinawa, Japan. This resulting to death number of at least 220 people. [citation needed]
  •   April 28, 1949, – One passenger train collision with a rear of bump into another passenger train, and then, third passenger train smash into two trains, outside of Orland railroad station, Natic township, Gauteng, South Africa, and killed 74 with injured 90 people. [citation needed]
  •   October 11, 1949, – A Preon terminal (present day of Victoria of Buenos Aires)-Tigre passenger train head-on collision with a freight train, Bartolone Mitre Line, central Buenos Aires, Argentina, which killed 25 with injured 100 people. [citation needed]

1950's

  •   March 18, 1950 – Ashton, Ontario, Canada: Wind blows smoke and freshly fallen snow to obscure the headlight on a Canadian Pacific Railway passenger train doing switching maneuvers at Ashton; the apparently blinking light is misinterpreted as a clear signal by the engineer of an opposing train who throttles up and runs into passenger cars that were still standing on the mainline. [citation needed]
  •   May 20, 1952 – Rajasthan, India: A passenger train head-on collided with a freight train between Paiona-Bikaner, at least fourty-five people confirmed dead and thirty-five people are injured. [citation needed]
  •   February 1, 1954 – A passenger train, carrying South Korean soldiers in Byeongjeon-Seryu, Gyeongbu Line, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, killing at least 40 people. [citation needed]
  •   September 27, 1954 – Aleru, Andra Pradesh, India: A eight cars of Hyderabad-Kazipet express, carrying 600 people onboard plunge into icy river with flood condition, approaching railroad station, killing at least 137 people. [citation needed]
  •   August 23, 1955 – Ciudadela railroad station, State of Buenos Aires, Argentina: A commuter express train head-on a rear of another local train, with crashing five passenger cars. In an incident cause by train driver has human erroe and dense fog, killing at least 30 with injuring 100. [citation needed]

crashed. Killed at least 30 people and injured 100. [citation needed]

  •   September 24, 1955 – Gomez Palacio, Durango, Mexico: A Torreon-Chihuahua passenger train hit by a fuel truck, carrying dynamite, following explosion and caught fire in level crossing, at least 100 people confirmed dead and 150 people are injured. [citation needed]
  •   December 21, 1955 - A runaway freight train crashes through a bridge in Cahir Co Tipperary killing 2 people.[citation needed]
  •   February 25, 1956 – Bormitz, Ostvorpommem, Mecklenburg-Vorpommem, East Germany: A Dresden-Lipzig express slammed into a freight train with two locomotive engines, with crushing several passenger cars, at least 35 pepole confirmed dead and 40 people are injured. [citation needed]
  •   November 23, 1956 – Ariyalur, Tamil Nadu, India: A Chennai-Thoothukudi express derailed by flood swept and plunged into Marudaiyar River, and crushing a locomotive engine and seven passernger cars, at least 154 people confirmed dead and at least 60 people are injured in this crush. [citation needed]
  •   September 7, 1957 – A Nimes-Paris express train derailed on a track by exssive speed approaching Nozieres Brignon railroad station, which killed 26 people in Nozieres, Rhone-Alpes, France. [citation needed]
  •   November 16, 1957 – A freight train smash into a rear of six cars of local passenger train in La Roche-sur-Yon railroad station, Pays de la Loire, France. In an incident caused by a railroad worker error of switch track, which killed 29 with injured 30 people. [citation needed]

1960s

  •   May 31, 1962 – A Milan-Genoa passenger train collided with standing twelve cars of freight train in Voghera railroad station, Pavia, Italy, at least sixty-two people dead and seventy injured. [citation needed]
  •   July 9, 1962 – Suburb of Garmsar, Semnan, Iran: A freight train hit by a crowded local bus, at least fourty-five people dead and twenty-nine injured. [citation needed]
  •   December 20, 1964 – Tacotalpa, Tabasco, Mexico: A freight train smash into a Tenosique-Costzacoalcos passenger train, at least 45 people confirmed dead and 75 peole are injured. [citation needed]
  •   February 10, 1965 – Zaragoza, Spain: A Barcelona-Madrid express train caught fire, with damaged three passenger cars, at least thirty people are killed and thirty-three people are injured. [citation needed]
  •   December 20, 1965 – Sintra, Lisbon Region, Portugal: An express train bump into rear of a freight train, at least twenty-five people victims and seventy people are wounded. [citation needed]
  •   June 12, 1966 – Bombay (present day of Mumbai), India: Two Victoria-Thana commuter trains collision in Matunga railroad station, at least 100 people confirmed dead and 120 people are injured. [citation needed]
  •   July 8, 1967 – Mun Wai, Korat (present day of Nakorn Ratchasima), Thailand: A Nongkhai-Bangkok express train smash into an overloaded bus in level crossing site, which killed 43 people with injured 39. [citation needed]
  •   August 25, 1967 – Beesd, Netherlands: The driver and conductor (who in those days was supposed to ride together with the driver in the front cabin) are killed and 7 passengers of a passenger train are injured at 5:55 in the morning, when a cargo train crashes head-on into the first passenger train of that day. The driver of the cargo train (who was injured but survived the crash) missed a red signal, because of dense fog. [citation needed]
  •   September 20, 1968 - Djaya, West Java, Indonesia: An express train head-on collided with another local train, with several cars derailed, at least fifty people are killed and at least 150 people injured. [citation needed]

1970's

  •   September 29, 1975: State of Buenos Aires, Argentina: A commuter train collision with another standing passenger train in Rio Lujan railroad station, with two passenger cars
  •   September 9, 1977 – Asyut, Egypt: At least fourty-one people killed and 153 people injured, when a twenty-one cars of passenger train with 700 people onboard and crashed. [citation needed]

1980's

  •   February 17, 1987 – Itaquera, state of Sao Paulo, Brazil: A commuter train bump into rear of another commuter train at switching point, at least fifty-eight people confirmed dead and 111 people are injured. [citation needed]
  •   March 4, 1984 – New Delhi, India: A local train hit a crouded bus on a city road crossing, killing 2 and injering 6 people on the bus.
  •   November 25, 1984 – A train derailed between Sheung Shui and Fanling station on the KCR East Rail. The incident occurred when the driver, preparing to back the train up to Sheung Shui station, failed to follow a speed/stop signal while the train was exceeding the speed limit. The train crashed into a boulder/buffer with the first 2 cars piling on top of each other. The degree of which they were damaged was so extensive that the cars never returned to service. Luckily, the passengers were unloaded prior to the crash while the driver sustained only minor injuries. However, the accident caused train services to suspend for the rest of the day and the incident spurred a series of public outcries concerning railway safety. It is certain that this was, and perhaps will remain, Hong Kong's most disastrous railway accident in her history.
  •   December 23, 1984 – The Rapido 904 from Naples to Milan named the "Christmas train" explodes in the longest Italian tunnel of San Benedetto Val di Sambro. An alliance formed between Mafia groups "What ours" and the Neapolitan Racket was behind the massacre on Express 904. In that tunnel there remained the bodies of 15 people, and hundreds were seriously injured, some dying many years later.
  •   June 12, 1986 – Itaquera, state of Sao Paulo, Brazil: An exspres train hits a car on a city grade crossing The 3 occupants of the car are killed and the train diver is badly wounded in the crash.
  •   December 19, 1987 – Harare, Zimbabwe: A freight train bump into rear of another on the same platform in the city‘s central station, killing 1 and injuring 2 passingers.[citation needed]
  •   April 4, 1987 – Burnham, Illinois, United States: A South Shore Line (NICTD) commuter train collided with a freight car, which had rolled from a siding onto the mainline. The train's engineer was killed, several more injured. It was later determined that a rusted rail prevented the freight car from activating the railroad's signal system.
  •   September 24, 1989 - An express train derails near Claremorris in County Mayo, Ireland injuring 70 people.
  •   October 21, 1980 – Itarsi, Madhya Pradesh, India: A passenger train bump into rear of a freight train and killing at least twenty with injuring at least eighty-three. [citation needed]
  •   October 29, 1980 – Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India: A Songam Express rear of bump into a freight train and both train are derailed, killing at least thirty-two with injuring at least 100. [citation needed]
  •   December 11, 1984 – Wembley, London: A passenger train collided with a freight train at Wembley Central, killing 3 injuring 60.

1990's

 
A Virgin Trains Mk2 coach at Banbury in 2001. All of Virgin's slam door stock was phased out by 2003, due to passenger safety concerns relating to such rolling stock.
  •   May 11 / August 7, 1991 – The Tamworth Triangle incidents. Three teenagers fell out of unlocked doors on some of the older types of express trains and later died from their injuries. The first two deaths occurred near Tamworth, Staffordshire, the third near Nuneaton, Warwickshire a few days later. Several other people had also encountered serious faults with the unlocking of doors during the same period both in Alrewas, Staffordshire and Stafford, but no more serious injuries resulted. A similar incident had also occurred in Cardiff, Wales a few months earlier. These incidents lead to the Health and Safety Executive condemning 'slam door' trains. The former director of British rail, Sir Bob Reid referred back to it in his retirement speech in 1997 and later in 2002. The construction magazine CNpluss later published a report in to it, in part of an article called "Two into four will go" on 11 August 2005, which concluded that trying to move about a crowded buffet-car was so difficult that some people were knocked out of the carriage door or mistook it for an interior door.[3]
  •   September 30, 1991 – Ballycumber, Republic of Ireland. A passenger train derails in Ballycumber Co Offally killing one and injuring a number of others.
  •   January 14, 1995 – Hili railroad station, Dinajpur, Bangladesh: A Dhaka-Khulna Samanta Express rammed into a standing local passenger train, official announced of death toll number of 38, another injuring are at least 300. [citation needed]
  •   January 31, 1995 - Aisgill, Settle-Carlisle Railway, England: A British Rail Class 156 Super Sprinter Diesel Multiple Unit derails because of a landslide and is hit by another Sprinter coming in the opposite direction in darkness and heavy rain. The conductor of the Sprinter that derailed because of the landslide is killed. Several people are seriously hurt, and the driver of one of the Sprinters has to be cut out by the fire brigade.
  •   June 5, 1995 – Brooklyn, NY, A Manhattan bound J train rear ends an M train on the Brooklyn side of the Williamsburg Bridge, killing the motorman on the J train and injuring 55 people. The National Transportation Safety Board investigating into the accident, concluded that train operator fatigue, and poor spacing of the signal system (the signals were too close together) were the main causes to this crash.[5]
  •   August 26, 1995 – According to Yonhap report, Seoul–Busan nightly express train carrying 440 passengers on board plunged and derailed at Goisan, Chungju, South Korea, with crushing six passenger cars, killing one, another 120 are injured.
  •   October 9, 1995 – Palo Verde derailment, Arizona, United States: One crewman is killed and 78 passengers are injured when an Amtrak passenger train en route to Los Angeles is derailed by saboteurs. To date, the person(s) responsible for the derailment have not been found.
  •   December 25, 1995 – According to Spanish Telemadrid television report, a Barcelona–Málaga–Madrid locomotive express train, carrying 200 passengers on-board is derailed and first car plunged down a ravine at mountain pass near Despenaperros Natural Park, Andalucia, Spain, killing two train workers.[6]

been damaged by the 7.1-magnitude Hector Mine earthquake, which had occurred 24 minutes prior to the derailment. Four of the 155 passengers on the train suffered minor injuries in the incident.

  •   December 29, 1997 - Some kilometers from Belver station, by the TEJO river, the morning Intercidades ran into a landslide (rocks mainly), derailing the locomotive (CP Alsthom #1947) and two stainless steel Sorefame cars. Only some persons were injured, none were killed.
  •   November 17, 1999 – Athens, Greece: 3 workmen using a pneumatic drill in Athens station are killed when they could not hear an approaching train from Halkida as it entered the station. 2 others later died of their wounds. They also apparently ignored the obvious timing factors relating to when trains would be actually scheduled to use the platform in the first place. The deaths are put down as being caused by the use of sloppy work routines.

2002

  •   February 21, 2002 – 2 stow-away passengers died and 5 were hurt, as they fell off the sides of a freight train they were hanging on to, near Baghdad.
  •   February 22, 2002 – A stow-away passenger died as he fell of the roof of the freight train he was hainging on to near Baghdad.
  •   March 1, 2002 – 3 stow-away passengers died and 2 were hurt, as they were crushed between a tunnel wall and the sides of a freight train they were hanging on to, near Karachi.

2004

  •   February 15, 2004 – Tebay , Cumbria, England, United Kingdom: A sleeper (railroad tie) transporter trolley with defective brakes carrying 16 tonnes of rails became detached from a maintenance train south of Penrith and rolled down the falling gradient until it struck and killed 4 workmen in a team repairing the line at Tebay, between Oxenholme and Penrith. The owner of the sleeper transporter truck (a contractor working for Network Rail) is prosecuted. (Source- The Metro newspaper (UK), March 2006).

2005

2006

  •   January 29, 2006 – A broken rail causes a derailment near Jhelum in the Punjab, killing 2 and injuring 29. Poor maintenance is officially being cited as cause of the accident, but sabotage was suspected by some authorities. The government inquiry later blamed defective and aging rails. [[3]] +

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  •   April 23, 2006 – According to South Korean humanitarian aid group report, A passenger train carrying North Korean soldiers head-on collision with another passenger train in same track, Kowon County, South Hamkyong, North Korea, killing at least 1000 people with unofficialty, second worst railroad disaster in world history. [citation needed]
  •   June 11, 2006 – Serbia, Belgard-Bar Railway: Once-in-a-lifetime train ride in Serbia This may not be one she'd want to take again. But the trip does offer a glimpse into how residents live.IT was plain contrariness. That's my only explanation for taking the train from Belgrade, Serbia, to Bar in Montenegro on the Adriatic coast. I wanted to see the Serbian countryside, all but off the tourist map since the recent Balkan wars, and to follow the wild gorge of the Tara River into Montenegro. My trip coincided with the potentially explosive May 21 election deciding whether Montenegrins would vote for independence from Serbia. (They did.)Everyone warned me that it would be an uncomfortable, dirty, crowded ride, that trains on the Belgrade-Bar line are usually late and that the state-run railway system hasn't been improved since the 19th century. Even the Serbian Railways website issued warnings about the dilapidated state of its equipment and tracks. Many Serbs travel to the sunny coast by plane or bus, a Belgrade travel agent told me. He politely and efficiently arranged the two-day trip, adding a night's layover at Zlatibor in the Dinaric Alps, but clearly thought I was crazy. n Belgrade before the trip, I visited the city's small Railway Museum on Sava Square near the main train station. The museum is small and hardly state of the art, but it has old equipment, photos and maps of interest to train buffs, and descriptive panels in English as well as Serbian. From these I learned that trouble has dogged the country's trains. The French company engaged to build a link for the Orient Express from Belgrade to Istanbul, Turkey, in 1880 went bankrupt, delaying the project 15 months. Unlike other European countries, Serbia invested little in its train system, ultimately laying only about 2,000 miles of tracks. Both world wars interrupted service and damaged railway infrastructure, as did NATO bombings in the 1990s. But there were other, positive signs. The Belgrade train station turned out to be a handsome yellow Baroque edifice built in 1884, then rebuilt after it was demolished in the first and second world wars. Outside, travelers can admire the vintage locomotive that pulled the "Blue Train," used by President Josip Tito on cross-country tours. Tito's luxurious cars can be rented for special occasions, and the railway offers sightseeing excursions on lines such as the "Sargan Eight," which passes through 20 tunnels and over 10 bridges in about eight miles near the country's mountainous southwestern border. When I looked on the Internet for reports about the Belgrade-Bar line, I found one from the Associated Press, dated Feb. 1 and headlined, "Parts of Wrecked Train Are Recovered for Montenegro's Investigation Into Deadly Accident." That was as far as I read, because by that point, my wheels were on the track. THE train I boarded for the three-hour first leg of my journey from Belgrade to Zlatibor looked ready for the scrap heap. It had bathrooms with toilet holes through which you could see the track, windows that opened instead of an air-conditioning system and well-worn compartments that seated six. I was traveling first class (for about $10 one way from Belgrade to Bar), but I couldn't find a seat corresponding to my ticket. So I simply chose a spot, which is what passengers do even if they don't have reservations. At first, the scenery was flat and monotonous, though I couldn't see much because the window was filthy. When we got into the mountains around the town of Uzice, the site of the country's first modern hydroelectric plant, I left the compartment and stood at an open window in the passageway so I could see out. Others joined me there to smoke. When the train pulled into Branesci, the stop for Zlatibor, I found Dragan Savicic, the owner of the villa hotel where I had a room for the night, waiting for me. He and his friend Marko Lukovic are about 7 feet tall, former professional basketball players. They took me by car to the Vila Bajka in Zlatibor, a pretty lakeside mountain town where Serbs ski in January and February and rusticate in July and August. When we got there, we had coffee on the terrace, which Dragan and Marko said was how they generally spent their time the rest of the year. Then they let me choose movies from their extensive DVD collection and showed me to my neat third-floor apartment, which had a kitchenette. Once I settled in, I walked back down the road to the town center, where I found cafes, nightclubs, shops and a folk craft market. It rained that night, so I cooked spaghetti with bottled Bolognese sauce in my kitchenette before curling up to watch Michael Caine in the 1964 movie "Zulu."The next morning, I took another long walk, into the hills, where I saw women collecting dandelions and children riding ponies. But I had a train to catch around 1 p.m. The scenery improved on the second leg of the trip, which lasted about seven hours. The train passed through the town of Prijepolje, birthplace of Vlade Divac, who played for the Lakers, then followed the Lim River to the border, which the train crossed without stopping for passport inspection. Near Mojkovac, the train skirted the western border of Biogradska Gora National Park, with its alpine lakes and snow-capped peaks, then wound along the steep side of the Tara River gorge.
  •   April 15, 2006 – Gubuck, Java: 13 die and 26 are injured as two trains collide and wreckage falls into a paddy field. One Swiss man was among the injured. Human error by the driver was officially blamed.[11] [[11]] +

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  •   June 14, 2006- Madera, California: 2 BNSF Railway Freight trains collide head on due to one of the trains running a red signal. One of the train's crews, the one that ran the red, was suspected to be high on cocaine.
  •   July 13, 2006 – Skopje, Macedonia: 2 died instantly and 4 were injured as passenger train hit a tractor and trailer near Skopje. One of the dead was a 14 year old boy and the other one was an old man. The train then skidded in to the taxi rank at a near by station and injured a taxi driver as his car was crushed under the train. The train driver was quizzed over possible safety lapses, but was later found innocent. Some reports came 4 people on the train were slightly injured also. [12] [13] [14]
  •   July 14, 2006 – Luxembourg: A man sets a newspaper alight on board a train, resulting in a fire that injures 31, with seven people suffering critical injuries. The culprit is suspected to have a mental disorder.[15]
  •  July 15, 2007 – Platform-edge door in Shanghai has caused a fatal accident. A man tried to force his way onto a crowded train at the station for the Shanghai Indoor Stadium, but failed. When the doors closed, he was trapped between the platform doors and the train, leading to his death.[16]
  •   July 25, 2006 – Warsaw, Poland in the railway station Warszawa Stadion, in 5.50, a Skierniewice – Pilawa passenger train of the Spółka „Koleje Mazowieckie – KM” rail have dashing into back of the Zakopane – Gdynia Główna Intercity passenger train of the PKP TLK (Tanie Linie Kolejowe) - 38 injured.
  •   November 20, 2006 – Canada- MARISSA, Ill. - A coal train crashed into a sport utility vehicle crossing the tracks Monday, killing three people and injuring a fourth, officials said. The crash occurred around 7:45 a.m. at the main railroad crossing in Marissa, about 40 miles southeast of St. Louis, Canadian National Railway Co. spokesman Jim Kvedaras said. “According to the conductor, the driver made no attempt to stop and drove into the path of the train,” said Marissa Police Chief Michael Kerperien. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15818058/
  •   November 21, 2006 – Arnhem, Netherlands - An cargo train driver ignores a red signal and collides almost head-on into a passenger train which was about to enther the railway station, injuring 31, of which 3 are still in hospital a day later.[17] A day earlier, a similar accident happened in Rotterdam. Luckily, that passenger train was empty and none were injured there, but there was extensive material damage to the rail track and its overhead power lines [18]
  •    December 12, 2006 – Northern Territory, Darwin. One of Australia's most popular tourist trains derailed Tuesday in the remote Outback, but no one among the 82 people aboard was seriously hurt, a spokesman said. The Ghan, which makes the 1,850-mile run from Adelaide to Darwin twice weekly, derailed about 18 miles south of the Adelaide River in Australia's Northern Territory. "We don't know why it came off the tracks. It's too early to tell," said Alan Stuart, a spokesman for the Great Southern Railway. "At this stage, we are investigating." The train was carrying 65 passengers and a crew of 17, none of whom suffered serious injuries.[20]
  •    December 13, 2006 – Avio, Italy, a freight train operated by Trenitalia ignores a red signal and crashes on a freight train of the private company Rail Traction Company. Two engineers of Trenitalia die in the violent crash [21][22] -
  •   December 23, 2006 – Ukraine, Kharkhov. In the night, the last carriage the train of the Kharkhov-Jazikovo line the Ukrainian state rail company УЖ - Ukrainske Zhjeleznice railways, kindleing and the fire have with lightning speed spreading. The outbreak of fire perception the next carriage's passengers and wake up of the truck guarder. She have pull the emergency brake. The fire brigade have in the one o'clock put out the fire. The sixt passengers of the train deceaseing, much int this hell wounded. The police issue a warrant against sy of the drunken firebrander. [23]
  •   December 27, 2006 – Hungary, Győr/Raab city. In the Budapest---Győr/Raab---Wien---München---Paris and Budapest---Győr---Bratislava---Prague---Berlin railway, 25 km west of the city Győr/Raab, between railway stations Kimle and Lébény-Mosonszentmiklós, several truck of the freight train transporting cornfield have windig, one truck on the two track overturning and plough up the track, uprooting the pylons of the wires. In this line two day have stopping the national and international rail traffic. The EC and IC trains to the relation Budapest-Paris, Budapest-Wien, Budapest-Frankfurt a/M, Budapest-Bratislava-Prague-Berlin, Budapest-Bern/Zürich running full of the meaning roundabout of the private rail Raab-Ödenburg-Ebenfurter Eisenbahn/Győr-Sopron-Ebenfurti Vasút (ROeEE/GySEV) by Győr/Raab to the Csorna, andfarther in the 3-st class not electrification railway to the Hegyeshalom. Happy not bee wounded, but the material loss of the hungarian national railways Magyar Államvasútak - MÁV are very big. [26]
  •   December 28, 2006 – 9.00 o'clock local time (15.00 GMT) Mexico, Cuautitlan A 36-car freight train smashed into a bus as it crossed a railroad track outside Mexico City. At least 24 were killed and 12 injured.2 in hospital. The train crumpled up the bus and pushed it about 330 feet. The bus driver was able to walk away from the incident unharmed, claiming he misjudged the speed of the train. [27] [28] [29] [30]

2007

  •   January 7, 2007 – – Washington, DC, United States: A 6-car Washington Metro Green line train derails on a crossover in a tunnel near the Mt. Vernon Square station. Eighteen were injured.
  •   January 9, 2007 – – Massachusetts, United States: An MBTA Commuter Rail train traveling on the Lowell Line hits a maintenance crew in Woburn, Massachusetts and kills two workers.
  •   January 10, 2007 – Two trucks collide with trains in separate incidents Two trucks tangled with trains this week — but with no serious injuries resulting. In the first incident, the rear end of a semi-trailer travelling north on a grid road near Limerick was struck by a train around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday. The train, which had been travelling about 30 kilometres per hour before the accident, had applied its emergency brakes but was unable to stop, the RCMP said. As a result, the semi and trailer were struck and flipped over. The driver of the semi, a 43-year-old male from Regina, was taken to hospital, but later released. He was subsequently charge with driving without due care and attention. In the second incident, which occurred at 7:15 a.m. Wednesday, a train collided with a pickup truck on a grid road northwest of Midale. The rear of the pickup was hit by the eastbound train. There were five men, all from the Estevan area, in the truck, but none was seriously injured. The RCMP said “slippery road conditions were believed to have contributed to the collision,” adding it appeared the truck was unable to stop at the controlled railway crossing. No charges have been laid in this incident.
  •   January 19, 2007 – – Wasserauen, Switzerland: At approximately 10.20 the electric passenger train nr. 332 Wasserauen-Appenzel-Herisau-St.Gallen derailed about 200 m after railway station Wasserauen. Two coaches ended up on the parallel public road Wasserauen-Gais, and overturned in the road. On this day the hurricane Kyrill in the Switzerland had windspeeds of 132-240 km/h. No deaths or injuries. Wasserauen Accident Coverage at FRN[97] and Basler Zeitung (German)[98]. Photographs at: www.railway-market.pl[99], bahnONLINE.ch[100] & polizeinews.ch[101].
  •   February 5, 2007 – – Zagreb, Croatia: In the railway station Zagreb Glávni Kolodvor, passenger railcar "Macosa" nr. 2300 of the route Virovitica---Koprivnica---Zagreb derailed. One woman wounded, great the expense of railway: in the railway infrastructure 45.000 HRK, in the train 700.000 HRK.Photographs at: Hrvatske željeznice croatian railways http://www.hznet.hr/[102]
  •   February 10, 2007 – – Karánice, Czech Republic: The express train Prague---Hradec Králové number R957 of the Česke drahy (ČD) railways, in the station Karánice, in the track number 020 (Velký Osek---Hradec Králové---Choceň) not be stoping before the red signal & crashed of the freight train number Pn 63440 & derailed of the electromotive number 163.035, one passenger carriage & two truck. The motorman of the 163.035 be seriously wounded. The maternal damage are great.
  •   February 10, 2007 – – Prague, Czech Republic: A EuroCity train bound for Warsaw was derailed at the points between the Prague Hlavni nadrazi (Main Railway Station) and the Liben district shortly before 10:30 a.m. on February 17th, Jan Kucera, director of the rail inspection said. The engine and five carriages fell out of the rails, but there were no injuries. However, the accident has caused a big complication to the railway traffic as the most used part of the rail system in the Czech Republic has been blocked, Kucera said. "Alternative transport by other means will be secured for the passengers from the train EC 107 'Praha'. According to the latest information, the pause will last till this evening," Czech Railways spokesman Ales Ondruj told CTK. The accident has blocked the place for trains bound for Ostrava, North Moravia, Brno, Decin, North Bohemia, Mlada Boleslav, Central Bohemia, and Hradec Kralove, East Bohemia, he added. [47]
  •   February 18, 2007 – 1 person was killed when Via Rail train 34 enroute to Montreal from Ottawa struck a snow-mobiler about 50km east of Alexandria, Ontario. The accident happened at around 4:20pm. The snow-mobiler died on the scene. Most Via Rail services to and from Montreal were affected by this accident resulting in minor to major delays on all Via service.
  •   February 19, 2007 –At least 42 people were feared killed in a suspected IED blast in the Delhi-Attari Special train near Deewana in Panipat, about 80 kms from Chandigarh, around midnight.The dead included some Pakistanis, top police officials in Chandigarh said. Two CRPF jawans were also said to be missing. The train to Attari carries passengers to Pakistan for cross over at Wagah border. Several people were injured in the suspected blast which occured at around 11.55 pm on Sunday night. Two bogies of he train caught fire in the explosion and the toll could go up. The injured include a constable from Amritsar and at least eight Pakistanis, railway sources said.Photos: [48]
  •   February 21, 2007 – The morning express train had 130 passengers on board when it ran off the tracks in bad weather about 10am. Kjell Bakken of the state agency responsible for railroad infrastructure in Norway, Jernbaneverket, said it was the first section of the eight-car train that derailed. Bakken said some of the cars remained on the tracks. Passengers were to be transferred to cars that hadn't derailed, and official initially intended to tow those cars back to the station at Voss. That plan had to be dropped, however, when another train sent to assist got stuck in snowdrifts as well, blocking the tracks back to Voss. Passengers thus remained stranded early Wednesday afternoon, but the cars remaining upright had light and heating. No one was injured, so they just had to wait until a new rescue plan was in place. The accident was expected to spur major delays in train traffic all day. The tracks between Myrdal and Hallingskeid were blocked, which will affect all train service between Oslo and Bergen.

2008

  •   February 1, 2008 – East Midlands Connect service from Nottingham to Norwich involved in an incident at Barrow-on-Soar. The train hit a footbridge that was in its path, after a road vehicle had struck and damaged the bridge causing it to be foul of the line. Six passengers were on board the service and the driver had to be cut free from the driving cab.[49]
  •   February 29, 2008. – Nine people became victims of fire in Bulgarian State Railways' train No.2637. The night train was travelling from Sofia to the north-eastern town of Kardam in Dobrich region. The fire started in a couchette carriage, which had 35 people in it at the time, and then spread to a sleeping coach with 27 people. It broke out as the train was entering the town of Cherven bryag, around midnight, and took more than three hours to extinguish. Among the victims of the fire was the Rasho Rashev, the director of Bulgaria's National Archaeological Institute. Bulgarian government declared March 5 a day of mourning in memory of the victims of the deadly fire.[50][51]
  •   April 26, 2008 – Collision between a InterCityExpress train and a herd of sheep at the mouth of the German longest rail tunnel, 19 of the train's 135 passengers being lightly injured. Four people suffered fractures.
  •   April 28, 2008 – 2008 China Railway train T195 accident It has been reported that train No.T195 carrying approximately 1200 passengers from Beijing to Qingdao derailed at approximately 4:38am and was then hit by the No.5034 (Yantai to Xuzhou) passenger train at approximately 4:41am, also with approximately 1200 passengers aboard. The incident occurred at a section of temporary detour tracks Zhoucun-Wangcun, Hejiacun, on the outskirts of Zibo, Shandong, China, while the original tracks were being upgraded. The detour tracks had a lower speed limit of 80km/h, but the speed limit failed to be delivered to T195's operation monitor system or driver, and the driver was following the regular speed limit, so T195 was running at the regular speed of 131km/h before it derailed. It was reported that fourteen passenger cars had been crushed, 72 people had been killed and 416 injured.
  •   May 10, 2008 – Romanian National Railway Company (CFR) passenger train No 1661 going from Bucharest to Iasi derailed near station Valea Calugareasca (Prahova county), around 16:55 local time (EET) while travelling at a speed of 68 km/h. There was a maximum speed limit on that sector of 70 km/h. A 17 year old girl died and 4 other persons were injured. The locomotive and 3 train cars were thrown off the lines. 2 of the cars were severely damaged. The cause of the accident is supposed to be a defective switch.
  •   May 16, 2008 Ottumwa, Iowa. A local man is killed after being struck by a train at a level crossing, At least six people had seen the pedestrian on one track at around 5 p.m., waiting for a train on the other track to pass. They said he apparently didn’t see the second train coming up behind him, traveling along the track on which he stood.
  •   May 25, 2008 – The man who was killed was a conductor. He was part of a two-man crew that was unloading coal from the 97-car train.“He was helping unload coal from the train when he either fell off the car or was somehow pulled into the coal,” Sealey said. “This was a very unusual accident. I don’t recall anything like this ever happening here before.”
 
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Falls of Cruachan derailment.

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A ScotRail Class 156, similar to the unit involved
Details
Date6 June 2010
20:53 BST (UTC+1)
LocationNear Falls of Cruachan
CountryUnited Kingdom
LineWest Highland Line
OperatorFirst ScotRail
Incident typeDerailment
CauseUnder investigation
Statistics
Trains1
Deaths0
Injured8

The Falls of Cruachan derailment occurred on 6 June 2010 on the West Highland Line in Scotland, when a passenger train travelling between Glasgow and Oban derailed near Falls of Cruachan railway station, after a suspected landslide. The two-car diesel multiple unit caught fire and one carriage was left in a precarious position on the 50-foot (15 m) high embankment. Sixty passengers were evacuated, some with minor injures; eight of those were hospitalised as a precaution. In addition to blocking the line, the incident also caused the closure of the A85 road below the rail line. Both road and rail were closed for a week.

Location

 
Falls of Cruachan station, near the accident site

The derailment occurred near Falls of Cruachan station,[1] on the branch of the West Highland Line which departs from the main route at Crianlarich station, running west to a terminus at Oban station on the coast.

Accident

The accident occurred on the 18:20 passenger train from Glasgow Queen Street station to Oban which derailed shortly before 21:00 BST (UTC+1).[2] The unit involved was Class 156 diesel multiple unit 156 499.[3] It was initially thought that two carriages had been left hanging over the 50-foot (15 m) embankment, although only one carriage was left in this position.[4] The leading bogie of the second carriage was also derailed.[5] The train caught fire during the incident, possibly because of leaking diesel fuel, but the fire was quickly put out using extinguishers.[1]

Rescue efforts

The train was carrying 60 passengers and three crew.[6] Emergency services were alerted by a passenger on the train who dialed 999 at 20:53 BST.[7]

Firefighters from the Strathclyde Fire and Rescue Service launched a major incident response. Two appliances from Oban, plus one each from Arrochar, Dalmally and Inveraray were despatched to the scene. A Major Incident Unit (MIU) from Clydebank and a Heavy Rescue Vehicle (HRV) from Easterhouse also attended the scene of the accident.[8] Two air ambulances and a Royal Navy Sea King helicopter also attended the scene due to the remote location.[9]

British Transport Police reported that all the passengers and crew had been evacuated from the train to the nearby Cruachan power station, helped to safety by the train crew.[2][8] The Ambulance Service treated most of the injured passengers at the scene, at a triage facility set up at the power station. Nobody was found to be seriously hurt, although eight people were taken to hospitals in Oban, Lochgilphead and Glasgow as a precaution, with the most serious cases described as minor spinal injuries.[2][8][9]

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency despatched two officers to the accident site to give advice on anti-pollution measures. Oil retention equipment was employed on Loch Awe and streams around the accident site to deal with any spilt diesel fuel from the carriages, which can carry 1,600 litres (350 imp gal) each.[10] The MIU and HRV were stood down at 00:30 on 7 June, with other firefighters remaining on standby due to diesel leaking from a ruptured fuel tank on one of the carriages. All fire crews except for one rescue pump were stood down at 04:08, and control of the site was handed over to Network Rail engineers.[7]

Travel effects

As a result of the derailment, the A85 was closed between the junctions with the A819 and the A828, with a limited replacement bus service implemented for rail travellers. ScotRail warned passengers that no guarantee could be given in regard to connections with ferry services at Oban.[2][11] On 8 June 2010, it reported that removing the train would take "days" leaving the A85 closed, and no firm date was set for the reopening of the line.[1] The nightly closures for roadworks of the A83 road were suspended to ease the effects of the A85 diversion.[12] The A85 reopened at 20:30 on 13 June, the West Highland Line reopening at 06:00 on 14 June 2010.[13]

Recovery of the train

On 8 June, Network Rail stated that they planned to have a crane on site to remove the two carriages by 11 June, after which track repairs would take place before the line could be opened to traffic. It was forecast that the line would be reopened in the week commencing 14 June.[14] One of the problems with the recovery is that the A85 may have to be strengthened in order to bring in a crane to recover the carriages.[15] The RMT Union reissued a demand that ScotRail scrap plans for the introduction of driver-only operated trains on the Airdrie-Bathgate Rail Link when it opens.[16]

On 9 June, it was reported that a 1,000-tonne crane would be brought in by road from Carlisle to remove the derailed carriages on 10 June. The A85 at Falls of Cruachan was in effect on a bridge along the shore of Loch Awe and the engineers were looking at a number of methods to alleviate the problems with using such a large vehicle on the road. The carriage left overhanging the embankment was to be recovered by road, whilst the other was to be recovered by rail. A road crane had to be used as there was insufficient room available to use a rail-mounted crane. An option to use a helicopter to remove the carriages was ruled out due to the weight of the carriages at 35 tonnes each.[17] If the crane was unable to recover the carriages, it was planned to winch them back onto the track and recover them by rail. The operation to recover the carriages was estimated to cost £100,000.[18] On 11 June the crane removed the carriage that had fallen down the embankment.[19]

Investigation

According to the British Transport Police the immediate cause of the derailment was thought to be that the train struck boulders which were obstructing the line.[2][8] Additionally, the driver had also reported that his train had collided with two boulders that were on the line.[6]

An investigation was opened into the accident by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch with ScotRail assisting.[2][8] Network Rail also assisted in the investigation.[20]

Rockfall risk

The stretch of line where the accident occurred is prone to rockfalls from the slopes of Ben Cruachan. The majority of incidents occur in summer and autumn, usually originated by sheep scrabbling on the slopes setting small stones rolling which then disturb larger ones.[21] At least two derailments due to rockfalls had occurred previously in the area prior to the 2010 incident.[21]

Along with other methods of rockfall risk reduction in the area, in the particular stretch of line from Loch Awe to Falls of Cruachan to Taynuilt, Network Rail also maintains the Pass of Brander stone signals.[1][22] This is a purely mechanical warning system, independent of the electronic signalling system used on the line. It sets one of a series of seventeen semaphore signals to danger should rocks from the slopes of Ben Cruachan break a screen of up to 14 thin wires horizontally strung 9 to 10 inches (23 to 25 cm) apart.[1] The signals are spaced about ¼ mile (400 m) apart over a 4-mile-1-chain (6.5 km) length of line.[23]

Network Rail confirmed on 8 June however that the Pass of Brander signals would not have prevented the 2010 derailment, as the rocks fell from a position about 20 feet (6.10 m) below the wire screen, falling for about 50 feet (15.24 m) before landing on the track, a distance which was not considered to represent a sufficient landslide risk to be covered by the wires.[1] When the system was originally installed, any unsafe boulders below the screen were wired back to the screen.[21]

The Pass of Brander system covers the stretch of line from the 51 mile 60 chains point to the 56 mile 00 chain point, as measured from Callander.[23] It was first installed in 1882 by the Callander and Oban Railway, following a derailment caused by falling rocks when a moving boulder actually struck a train, on 17 August 1881, a year after the line opened.[21] It was then extended in stages up to 1913.[1] A second derailment occurred on 8 August 1946, leaving the train perched on the edge of a 100-foot (30 m) drop.[21] It happened to the 06:05 Oban to Glasgow train; the first the driver saw was the boulder falling onto the track, and was unable to stop the train in time.[24] A third derailment occurred on 5 April 1997 at almost exactly the same site as the 2010 derailment. The guard on the train in 1997 was Angus McColl, who was also the guard in 2010.[17] In the 1997 accident, the train remained upright and there were no reported injuries amongst the 40 passengers on board.[16] On 11 June, Bob Crow, General Secretary of the RMT union, wrote to Network Rail criticising them for not implementing safety recommendations after a total of five previous derailments at Falls of Cruachan. Following the 1997 derailment, it was recommended that the embankment be stabilised above the line. Crow claimed that this work had not been carried out. Network Rail responded to Crow's allegation by stating that the cause of the accident was still under investigation by RAIB, and that it was their job to determine the cause, not the RMT's.[20]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Dalton, Alastair. "Train driver tells of rocks on line before crash". The Scotsman. Retrieved 8 June 2010.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Boulders 'caused Glasgow to Oban rail derailment'". BBC News Online. Retrieved 6 June 2010.
  3. ^ Clinnik, Richard. "Derailment leaves ScotRail DMU suspended above road". Rail (Issue 646, June 16 - June 29 2010). Bauer Media: p8–9. {{cite journal}}: |issue= has extra text (help); |pages= has extra text (help)
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  5. ^ "Investigation into derailment near Falls of Cruachan, Argyll, 6 June 2010". Rail Accident Investigation Branch. Retrieved 19 June 2010.
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  10. ^ "Statement - Train derailment on the Glasgow to Oban line, near the Falls of Cruachan". Scottish Environment Protection Agency. 7 June 2010. Retrieved 10 June 2010.
  11. ^ Service Disruption Update 09:59 - 07 Jun 2010 "Train services between Oban and Crianlarich are being disrupted due to a derailed train. Short notice alterations, cancellations and delays can be expected. Please note that no train services will operate between Oban and Crianlarich, a replacement bus service will operate from Oban to Glasgow Queen Street, from Glasgow Queen Street to Oban and also from Crianlarich to Oban all via Ballachullish. We are unable to operate alternative transport for stations between Oban and Crianlarich due to the road being closed. Passengers should be aware that journey times will be extended and to allow extra time for any onward connections. Passengers with boat connection at Oban, please note that connections are not guaranteed due to the extended journey times."
  12. ^ "A85 road closures following train derailment at Cruachan". ForArgyll. Retrieved 8 June 2010.
  13. ^ "Track reopens after Glasgow to Oban derailment". BBC News Online. Retrieved 14 June 2010.
  14. ^ "Derailed Glasgow to Oban train could be removed in days". BBC News Online. 8 June 2010. Retrieved 9 June 2010.
  15. ^ "Derailment means road and train line could be closed until next week". Scottish Television. 8 June 2010. Retrieved 10 June 2010.
  16. ^ a b "RMT reissues demand that Scotrail scrap plans to axe Guards as it emerges that another train derailed at Falls of Cruachan 13 years ago ¨C with same Guard ensuring passenger safety!". National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers. 8 June 2010. Retrieved 10 June 2010.
  17. ^ a b Dalton, Alastair (9 June 2010). "Mission impossible to rescue derailed train". The Scotsman. Retrieved 10 June 2010.
  18. ^ Greenway, David (9 June 2010). "David Greenway: A tricky and possibly expensive operation". The Scotsman. Retrieved 10 June 2010.
  19. ^ "Crane removes derailed Glasgow to Oban train". BBC News Online. Retrieved 11 June 2010.
  20. ^ a b Urquhart, Frank. "Rail union attacks landslide safety record". The Scotsman. Retrieved 12 June 2010.
  21. ^ a b c d e John Thomas (1966): The Callander and Oban Railway. David and Charles, Newton Abbot.
  22. ^ "Taynuilt". Signalbox. Retrieved 7 June 2010.
  23. ^ a b "The Pass of Brander Stone Signals". Railsigns. Retrieved 8 June 2010.
  24. ^ "Boulder derails train". The Times (50525). London: 2. 9 August 1946.

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