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1960
January 7 –
Italy
– At
Monza
, an express from
Sondrio
to
Milan
failed to slow as it approaches a construction zone with a 10 km/h (6 mph) speed limit on the temporary track and derails on the sharp curve. One source says 30 people were killed and 70 injured;
[
1
]
another says 17 killed and 120 injured.
[
2
]
January 10 –
United States
– The
New York Central Railroad
's
Southwest Limited
from
St. Louis
to
Cleveland
, instead of slowing to pick up a train order at
Wellington, Ohio
, approached too fast in the fog and derailed. The signal tower was demolished, but the signalman was safely on the ground preparing to hand over the train order. Six people were killed and at least 40 injured.
[
3
]
January 11 –
United States
– Nine people were injured after a
Santa Fe
Chief
slammed into a stalled truck near
Sanford, Texas
.
[
4
]
January 21 –
United Kingdom
–
Settle rail crash
: On an express passenger train from
Glasgow
to
London
, the driver heard a knocking sound on his
BR Standard Class 7
steam locomotive and stopped, but could not identify the problem in a snowstorm at night. He decided to proceed cautiously to the next motive power depot, but before getting there, the engine's
motion
came apart and struck the tracks. The track damage derailed a freight train passing in the opposite direction; the derailed cars collided with the passenger train, killing five people and injuring nine.
[
5
]
January 28 –
United Kingdom
– An
electric multiple unit
overran signals at Borough Market Junction, London and collided sidelong with a
diesel-electric multiple unit
. Another electric multiple unit collided with the derailed train. Seven people were injured.
[
6
]
February 13 –
Canada
– On the
CNR
, the
Super Continental
, running 3 hours late, collided head-on with a 39-car freight train near Osawin, 32 miles (51 km) west of
Hornepayne, Ontario
. The passenger train's engineer was killed and 33 passengers and 4 railwaymen were injured.
[
7
]
[
8
]
March 1 –
United States
–
Bakersfield
,
California
– The
Chicago
-bound
San Francisco Chief
collided with a fuel truck on Allen Road, just north of Rosedale Highway, killing 14: ten passengers, three crew members, and the driver of the truck.
[
9
]
April 1 –
United Kingdom
– An electric multiple unit collided with a light engine between Loughborough Junction and
Herne Hill
due to a signalman's error. One person was killed and twelve were injured.
[
6
]
May 15 –
East Germany
–
Leipzig
: Two local trains collided in
Leipzig central station
owing to a default in the electricity supply to the station which also affected the signalling and a following dispatcher error. Fifty-four people died, 200 were injured.
[
10
]
July 8 –
India
– As a train crossed the
Yamuna
River bridge at
Mathura
in the
North Eastern Railway zone
with people riding on the roof, 25 of them were knocked off by the bridge superstructure and killed.
[
1
]
[
11
]
July 12 –
Argentina
–
Comodoro Rivadavia rail disaster
– In
Comodoro Rivadavia
a passenger train suffered a brake failure, it lost control and crashed into another train at high speed. Three people died and many other were severely injured.
[
12
]
July 28 –
Cuba
– Near
Camagüey
, a civilian train carrying militia from
Oriente Province
to
Havana
, reportedly suffering a brake failure, collided with the train ahead, a military passenger train also from Oriente to Havana. Several people were killed and 80 were injured.
[
13
]
November 14 –
Czechoslovakia
–
Stéblová train disaster
: 118 people were killed and 110 injured in a
head-on collision
.
November 21 –
Netherlands
–
Woerden train disaster
: A British train derailed at Woerden, killing two. Due to work on the track, a temporary speed limit of 40 km/h (25 mph) was posted with special signs, but the train was traveling at 90 km/h (56 mph) when it derailed.
November 29 –
Canada
–
Lamont, Alberta
: A CN train collided with a school bus at a level crossing on the edge of town, killing 17 students.
[
14
]
1961
January 9 –
Spain
– Apparently due to a signaling fault, a
Valencia
-to-
Barcelona
express collided near Barcelona with a freight train, forming a pile of debris 30 feet (10 m) high and killing at least 21 people (including both drivers and a number of students) and injuring at least 50. Also on board is the
Barcelona Espanyol
soccer team, but the team suffers no injuries.
[
15
]
January 31 –
United States
– After 18 cars of a
Kansas City Southern
freight train derailed near
New Roads, Louisiana
, a tank car of chlorine ruptured. About 1,000 people were evacuated from homes and schools. Of 50 taken to hospital, one baby boy died and six members of his family, as well as four others, were in critical condition. Many farm animals were also killed.
[
16
]
February 11 –
United Kingdom
– An express freight train derailed near
Rugby, Warwickshire
. The wagons fouled the adjacent line, and were run into by an express passenger train.
[
17
]
A driver was killed after being trapped on the footplate and two passengers were injured.
[
18
]
February 13 –
United Kingdom
– An express passenger train ran into a freight train at
Baschurch
,
Shropshire
, killing three people.
[
19
]
Geldrop
February 22 –
Netherlands
– A freight train and a passenger train collide at
Geldrop
,
North Brabant
.
February –
United Kingdom
– A
diesel multiple unit
ran away and crashed through buffer stops and into houses at
Royton
,
Lancashire
before catching fire. The driver was seriously injured.
[
20
]
March 11 –
Taiwan
– 27 killed, 15 injured after a southbound passenger train (#3001 Diesel Limited Express) smashed into a truck carrying soldiers at a level crossing between Linfengyin and Longtien,
Tainan
.
[
21
]
March 20 –
United Kingdom
– A
diesel-electric multiple unit
and an
electric multiple unit
collided at
Cannon Street
,
London
after the latter's driver misread signals.
[
22
]
Twelve people were injured.
[
23
]
March 30 –
Italy
– A 7-car
Rapido
express train from
Turin
to
Rome
was destroyed by fire in a tunnel near
Sestri Levante
. At least five were killed and more than 70 injured.
[
24
]
April 11 –
United Kingdom
– An
electric multiple unit
overran signals and crashed into another at
Waterloo station
, killing one person and injuring fourteen.
[
17
]
April 19 –
India
– Sabotaged track derailed a passenger train at
Siliguri
, killing 23 people and injuring 77, 28 seriously.
[
15
]
May 22 –
United States
–
Arlington, Oregon
: A
Union Pacific
freight train derailed, killing two people, sending twenty rail cars off the track, and catching on fire.
[
25
]
June 13 –
West Germany
– On a section of temporary single-track working at
Esslingen am Neckar
, a local train ran past signals and collided head-on with another on an embankment, killing 35 people.
[
15
]
July 8 –
Taiwan
– 48 were killed, 28 injured after a southbound passenger train (#11
Limited Express
) smashed into a bus at a level crossing in
Minxong
,
Chiayi County
.
[
26
]
July 16 –
United Kingdom
–
Singleton Bank rail crash
: The 8:50
diesel multiple unit
train from
Colne
to
Fleetwood
collided with the rear of a ballast train at about 45 miles per hour (72 km/h) near
Weeton, Lancashire
, England. Seven were killed (the driver and six passengers) and 116 were injured.
[
27
]
October 5 –
West Germany
– In
Hamburg
, between the
Hauptbahnhof
and nearby
Berliner Tor station
, an
S-Bahn
train ran past signals and crashed into a work train loaded with 50-foot (15 m) girders, some of which crashed into the passenger cars; 28 people were killed and 55 injured.
[
28
]
October 26 –
Japan
– On the
Ōita Kōtsu
company's line from
Ōita
to
Beppu
, a massive landslide derailed and buried a tramcar carrying 66 passengers; 32 people were killed and everyone else on board was injured.
[
28
]
October 29 –
India
– A derailment due to excessive speed, between
Mainpuri
and
Bhongaon
, killed 22 people and injured 62.
[
28
]
December 14 –
United States
–
Auburn, Colorado
: The
Union Pacific
passenger train "City of Denver" en route to
Denver
collided with a school bus carrying 36 children bound for Delta and Arlington elementary schools, Meeker Junior High, and Greeley High. Twenty of the children were killed.
[
29
]
December 23 –
Italy
–
Fiumarella rail disaster
: a
Cosenza
–
Catanzaro
train derailed on a bridge near
Catanzaro
. Seventy people died and 27 were injured.
[
30
]
December 26 –
United States
– One person died and 38 people sustained non-life-threatening injuries after four cars of a train derailed while rounding the curve just north of
York–Dauphin station
,
Philadelphia
.
[
citation needed
]
1962
Harmelen
January 8 –
Netherlands
– The
Harmelen train disaster
, the deadliest railway accident in the history of The Netherlands occurred after the Utrecht–Rotterdam
express train
driver misses a warning signal in fog and
passed a red signal
to collide nearly head-on with another passenger train from Rotterdam to Amsterdam. Ninety-one people (including both drivers) died on the scene, 54 were injured of whom two died while in hospital.
[
31
]
February 2 –
United Kingdom
– A passenger train met a rear-end collision with a freight train at
Polmont
,
Stirlingshire
due to a signalman's error, injuring five people.
[
32
]
February 22 –
Colombia
– A passenger train from
Buenaventura
to
Cali
collided head-on on a single track, near its destination, with a freight train; 40 people were killed, all in the first 4 cars of the passenger train, and 67 injured.
[
33
]
[
34
]
March 3 –
Italy
–
Castel Bolognese train disaster
. The
Bari
–
Milan
train derailed while entering the station of
Castel Bolognese
,
Ravenna
, killing 13 and injuring 80.
[
30
]
April 17 –
Thailand
– At
Padang Besar
, seven people were killed in a collision of two passenger trains.
[
35
]
1962 Mikawashima train crash in Arakawa, Tokyo
May 3 –
Japan
–
Mikawashima train crash
: A freight train passed a danger signal and was diverted safely into a siding at
Mikawashima Station
in
Tokyo
, but derailed at the end of it, fouling the adjacent track. A 6-car commuter train bound for
Toride
then crashed into the wreckage, and another train bound for
Ueno
crashed into the new wreckage as well as passengers trying to evacuate from the previous crash. Altogether 160 people were killed and 296 injured.
[
33
]
[
36
]
May 10 –
USSR
– Two crowded commuter trains collided while one of them was stopped at a junction in the north part of
Moscow
. Foreign newspapermen and diplomats living nearby reported seeing scores of ambulances, but Soviet authorities tried to hush up the news. The accident occurred on National Railway Day.
[
37
]
May 18 –
United States
– The
Laurentian
, a
Delaware and Hudson
passenger train traveling from Montreal to Albany derailed next to Waterford Rural Cemetery. A crewmember suffered serious wounds and died in hospital, and 7 passengers were injured.
[
38
]
May 31 –
Italy
–
Voghera train crash
; a freight train collided with a passenger train at
Voghera railway station
,
Lombardy
, killing 63 and injuring 40.
[
30
]
June 3 –
United Kingdom
–
Lincoln rail crash
: The
Night Scotsman
express passenger train derailed at
Lincoln
due to excessive speed on a curve, killing nine people and injuring 49.
[
39
]
June 8 –
India
– At
Bhilai
, 11 coaches of a passenger train were blown over by wind during a cyclone, killing 9 people and injuring 123.
[
33
]
June 11 –
Argentina
–
Villa Soldati level crossing tragedy
: 42 people were killed and 88 are injured after a bus was hit by an express train in
Villa Soldati
in southwest
Buenos Aires
.
July 21 –
India
– A mail train from
Amritsar
to
Howrah
collided at
Buxar
with a freight train being shunted on the main line; reportedly, the signal operators fled the scene. At least 48 people were killed and 55 seriously injured.
[
40
]
July 22 –
Romania
– A passenger train derailed between
Bucharest
and
Mogoșoaia
due to excess speed, killing 32 people.
[
40
]
July 23 –
France
–
Velars-sur-Ouche
,
Bourgogne
: A Paris–
Marseille
express train derailed, killing at least 39 people and injuring another 49.
[
41
]
July 28 –
United States
– A 9-car
Pennsylvania Railroad
train from
Harrisburg
to
Philadelphia
, carrying baseball fans to a
Philadelphia
-
Pittsburgh
game, derailed at
Steelton
. Three cars were in use—the rest were reserved for passengers boarding later—and those three cars fell into the
Susquehanna River
valley, one landing in the river. The crash killed 19 people and injured 119. A railroad spokesman said the track was apparently out of alignment.
[
42
]
[
43
]
[
44
]
August 1 –
United Kingdom
– An
electric multiple unit
derailed at
Barnham
,
West Sussex
after points moved under it due to an electrical fault, injuring 38 people.
[
45
]
August 25 –
United Kingdom
– A passenger train came to a halt near
Totnes
,
Devon
due to a fault in the
diesel locomotive
hauling it. Another passenger train rear-ended it due to driver error, injuring 23 people.
[
46
]
October 5 –
France
– Part of a freight train going to
Dijon
derailed near
Montbard
. The following train, the
Aquilon
, was safely stopped by signals, but the other track was fouled and a 3-car
Cisalpin
train from
Milan
to
Paris
crashed into the wreckage, killing 9 people.
[
47
]
[
48
]
October 9 –
Poland
–
Moszczenica
(near
Piotrków Trybunalski
):
Warsaw
–
Budapest
express slammed into derailed cars of the regional
Gliwice
–Warsaw express. Official death toll is 34 people killed and 67 injured, but the real toll is probably far higher.
[
49
]
[
unreliable source?
]
October 16 –
United Kingdom
– A
London Transport
electric multiple unit
rear-ended another near
Watford Junction
,
Hertfordshire
, injuring 11 people.
[
50
]
November 5 –
Yugoslavia
– A derailment, possibly at
Kumanovo
(now in North Macedonia), killed at least 23 people and injured 17.
[
40
]
[
better source needed
]
November 11 –
India
– As passenger train 67 crossed the Gogra (now
Ghaghara
) Bridge at Manjhi (near
Chhapra
) in the
North Eastern Railway zonewith
people riding on the roof, 28 people were knocked off and killed by the bridge superstructure, which was 20 inches (50 cm) above roof level, and two seriously injured.
[
51
]
[
52
]
[
53
]
November 30 –
Canada
– A
Canadian Pacific Railway
tank car developed a crack, causing 30 short tons (27 t) of
chlorine
to leak out while it sar on a siding in
Cornwall, Ontario
. More than 100 people required hospitalization.
[
54
]
[
55
]
December 26 –
United Kingdom
–
Coppenhall Junction railway accident
: Because the lineside telephones were out of order, the driver of a
Glasgow
-to-
London
train could not speak to the signalman, but could see the next signal ahead, so he decided to advance cautiously only to run into a train. The resulting collision killed 18 people.
1963
January 4 –
India
– In the
North Eastern Railway zone
, two trains collided at Umeshnagar, near Monghyr (now
Munger
). One source indicates 37 were killed and 86 injured;
[
56
]
another, 42 killed and over 100 injured.
[
57
]
March 18 –
Brazil
– After a
Rio de Janeiro
commuter train stalled, passengers went onto the tracks and were struck by an express train on another track; at least 12 of them were killed.
[
58
]
April 11 –
Indonesia
– An express from
Jakarta
to
Bandung
derailed near its destination. One heavily loaded car fell into a ravine, rolling over several times; altogether 37 people were killed.
[
56
]
April 28 –
United States
– A freight train derailed near
Dillsburg, Pennsylvania
, leaking chlorine gas before detonating, with its mushroom cloud being seen for miles.
[
59
]
May 27 –
United Kingdom
– A
Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway
train from Hythe to New Romney, hauled by
Hercules
suffered a fault in its brake system. The driver managed to get the train running, but at only 3 mph (5 km/h). The train was run into by the following train, hauled by
Typhoon
, derailing a number of carriages and causing several injuries.
[
60
]
May 28 –
Portugal
– While one train was loading and another was unloading at
Cais do Sodré station
in
Lisbon
, the roof over the platforms collapsed. About 50 people were killed and many more injured.
[
61
]
[
62
]
August 1 –
United Kingdom
– A passenger train formed of
electric multiple units
derailed at
Barnham
station,
West Sussex
after an electrical fault caused a point motor to operate a set of points as the train approached. Thirty-eight people were injured.
[
45
]
[
63
]
August 2 –
Uruguay
– Saboteurs tampered with a track switch 8 miles (13 km) from
Montevideo
, diverting a 3-car passenger train into a siding where it crashed into freight cars at 45 mph (72 km/h). At least 30 people were killed and 100 injured.
[
64
]
August 9 –
United States
– While a
Pennsylvania Railroad
tank car holding 80,000 US gallons (300,000 L) of
chlorine
was being unloaded at a chemical plant in
Philadelphia
, the line broke and the gas was released. Two hundred and seventy-five people required hospitalization.
[
65
]
August 15 –
United Kingdom
–
Knowle and Dorridge rail crash
: An express passenger train collided with a freight train at
Knowle and Dorridge
station,
Warwickshire
due to a signalman's error, killing three people.
[
66
]
September 17 –
United States
–
Chualar bus crash
– A freight train collided with a bus carrying 58 migrant farmworkers at a railroad crossing outside Chualar, California, killing 32 people and injuring 25. The crash ranks as the deadliest automobile accident in the United States to date, according to the National Safety Council.
November 9 –
Japan
–
Tsurumi rail accident
: a twelve-car
Yokosuka
–Tokyo commuter train collided with three cars of a freight train which had derailed, and then collided head-on with the Tokyo–
Zushi
commuter train during slow speed, which crushed four passenger cars at
Tsurumi
–
Shin-Koyasu
, Yokosuka and
Tokaido Line
, Yokohama, killing at least 161 people, another 120 were injured.
December 5 –
Ireland
–
Mullingar
,
County Westmeath
: A broken-down passenger train was run into by the locomotive sent to rescue it, injuring 16 people.
[
67
]
December 24 –
Hungary
– A collision near
Szolnok
killed 45 people; one of the drivers was held responsible and sentenced to 11 years in prison.
[
56
]
1964
February 1 –
Argentina
–
Altamirano rail disaster
– near
Buenos Aires
: A
Mar del Plata
–Buenos Aires
Firefly Express
with 1,040 passengers on board collided head-on with a freight train, killing 34 people.
February 15 –
Brazil
– Two wooden cars of a train from
Petrópolis
to Rio de Janeiro derailed and fell into a ravine, killing at least three people and injuring 20.
[
68
]
March 8 –
India
– An express from Madras to Calcutta (now
Chennai
and
Kolkata
, respectively) collided with a stationary freight train at Baudpur, about 40 mi (64 km) southwest of
Balasore
, killing 22.
[
56
]
May 28 –
United Kingdom
– A passenger train derailed at
Cheadle Hulme
,
Cheshire
due to excessive speed on a curve. Three people were killed, 27 were hospitalized.
[
69
]
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.
[
70
]
[
71
]
[
72
]
[
73
]
[
74
]
July 29 –
South Africa
– A derailment near
Randfontein
killed at least 21 people.
[
75
]
August 21 –
Canada
– At a level crossing in Leonard, Ontario (about 32 km [20 mi] east of Ottawa), a truck loaded with gravel smashed into a
Canadian Pacific Railway
train from
Ottawa
to
Montreal
, derailing the last 3 cars of the 7-car train. The truck driver and 7 train passengers were killed; at least 20 were injured.
[
76
]
September 6 –
Sweden
– An express train from
Stockholm
derailed near
Ånge
, killing 8 people and injuring 35.
[
77
]
October 5 –
United Kingdom
– Two passenger trains (the 08:20 Kings Cross–Doncaster and 09:00 Kings Cross–Newcastle) collided in dense fog near
Finsbury Park
after the wrong signal was given. The only injury was to the driver, who had to be cut from the train.
[
78
]
December 20 –
Mexico
– A freight train collided at about 45 mph (72 km/h) with the rear of a passenger train at
Tacotalpa
, killing at least 46 and injuring 26.
[
75
]
Another source indicates 42 killed and at 75 critically injured.
[
79
]
December 20 –
Italy
– Just outside the station for
Pompeii
, a stopped southbound passenger train was rear-ended by another train, killing three passengers and injuring nearly 100 more.
[
80
]
December 22–23 –
India
– At about midnight, during the
1964 Rameswaram cyclone
, train 653 from
Pamban
was approaching its terminus, the
Palk Strait
port of
Dhanushkodi
, when the signals failed. The driver decided to proceed, but the train was hit by a
storm surge
. The number of deaths is variously estimated as 115,
[
81
]
or 128,
[
75
]
or anywhere up to 200.
[
82
]
December 23 –
India
– During the 1964 Rameswaram cyclone, an express from Trivandrum (now
Thiruvananthapuram
) to Madras (now
Chennai
) was derailed by a washout between
Vadipatti
and
Kodaikanal
, with four deaths and seven serious injuries.
[
83
]
1965
February 10 –
Spain
– A night train from
Madrid
to
Barcelona
suffered a fast-spreading fire shortly after leaving
Grisén
, destroying several wooden-bodied cars and killing 30 people.
[
84
]
March 14 –
United States
– A T & P passenger train and crude oil tanker truck collision killed the train's engineer and fireman, who were in the cab when it struck the tanker's trailer.
[
85
]
March 28 –
Brazil
– A passenger train crashed into derailed cars of a freight train at Commendador, killing 21 and injuring 40.
[
84
]
April 5 –
Brazil
– A passenger train and freight train collided head-on at
Três Rios
, killing an estimated 40 people.
[
86
]
April 17 –
Canada
– At
Terrace Bay, Ontario
, the
Canadian Pacific Railway
's eastbound
Canadian
en route from
Vancouver
to
Toronto
and
Montreal
was derailed by
subsidence
and some of the cars fell down an embankment. A baggage car employee and an apparent stowaway were killed, but most passenger injuries were minor.
[
87
]
[
88
]
June 30 –
Spain
– At a level crossing in El Arahal (now
Arahal
), a medium-distance train crashed into a bus going from
Seville
to
El Saucejo
, killing 13 people and injuring 35.
[
89
]
August 16 –
Spain
– A mail train to
Madrid
and a freight train collided head-on near
Gádor
, killing 11 people and injuring 65.
[
90
]
August 29 –
France
– After the Lombardy Express from
Milan
to
Paris
stopped at
Pont-d'Héry
station to deal with a brake problem, another fast train braked too slowly and rear-ended it at about 20 km/h (12 mph), killing 12
[
91
]
or 16
[
92
]
people; the driver of the second train was charged with manslaughter.
September 22 –
United Kingdom
– An
electric multiple unit
collided with a
double-decker bus
on a
level crossing
between
Angmering
and
Goring-by-Sea
,
West Sussex
due to errors by the crossing keeper, killing three people and injuring eight.
[
93
]
October 4 –
South Africa
– An overcrowded passenger train carrying
black workers
to
KwaMashu
derailed at Effingham Junction near
Durban
; 81,
[
94
]
89
[
84
]
or 150
[
95
]
people are killed and hundreds injured. A white signalman was killed in retaliation by an angry crowd of black people. This is the worst rail disaster in South African history.
December 8 –
Burma
– A
Yangon
–
Mandalay
nightly express train ploughed into a standing passenger train, killing 80 people and injuring 100 in
Toungoo
,
Bago Division
.
[
96
]
December 18 –
Spain
– Express train from
Irún
to
Lisbon
collided with a local passenger train near Villar de los Álamos,
Salamanca
, killing 34 people. Fifty others were injured.
[
97
]
December 20 –
Portugal
– A commuter train serving Lisbon crashed into a freight train at
Algueirão
. More than 40 people were believed to have been killed.
[
98
]
1966
January 2 –
United States
– The last two cars of the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
's
South Wind
derailed near
Franklin, Kentucky
, injuring 19 passengers on board. The last car, a privately owned coach, turned over on its side, injuring the owner and several members of his family, while passengers in the next coach, which derailed but stayed upright, were injured by overhead baggage striking them in the head and back.
[
99
]
January 7 –
United States
– D&H freight train derailed at the NY Route 206 grade crossing in
Bainbridge, New York
, killing 2 people.
January 20 –
Portugal
– A train was swept off the tracks by a landslide near
Agueda
, killing at least 5 people and injuring more than 20.
[
100
]
[
101
]
February 3 –
United Kingdom
– On the underground railway in a coal mine at
Rotherham
, a locomotive crashed into a train carrying miners, killing at least 6 and injuring 21.
[
102
]
February 9 –
United Kingdom
– Two coaches of a
London
-bound commuter train caught fire as it moved at around 65 miles per hour (105 km/h) before being stopped near
Radlett
, 20 miles (32 km) north of London. Thirty-three persons, many of them with burns, were taken to hospitals. Others were treated beside the tracks after passengers pulled the emergency cord. The chief test pilot for the nearby
Handley Page
aircraft plant sounded an alarm that brought firemen and ambulances to the scene within minutes and notified a signalman to halt following trains. The fire was caused by a drive shaft, believed to have broke due to the presence of instrumentation as part of a trial, puncturing a fuel tank.
[
103
]
March 7 -
United States
- The
Great Northern Buelow wreck
: The eastbound
Empire Builder
crashed with the westbound
Western Star
mail and passenger train, killing two and injuring 77.
[
104
]
May 2 –
India
– A car carrying munitions exploded at a
Central Railway
marshalling yard at
Bhusaval
station, killing seven people and injuring 31.
[
105
]
May 31 –
Romania
– Soon after starting from
Bucharest
, an express to
Galați
collided with a local train; 38 people were killed and 65 were injured. The country's railways minister was fired.
[
106
]
Hedel
May 31 –
Netherlands
– A passenger train is derailed near
Hedel
,
Gelderland
.
June 13 –
India
– Two suburban commuter EMU trains collided head-on in torrential monsoon rain between
Matunga
and
Sion
railway stations,
Bombay
, killing 57 and injuring 106, 42 seriously. The driving cab and the first few coaches of each trains were crushed, withe the other coaches telescoped into each other and climbed over the adjacent coaches. It was thought the rains might have disrupted the signalling system.
[
107
]
[
108
]
June 19 –
India
– An express passenger train from
Ahmedabad
to
New Delhi
crashed into a stationary freight train near
Ajmer
; 15 people were killed and 38 seriously injured.
[
109
]
July 13 –
United States
– Cherryville, North Carolina, Seaboard Air Line trains #45 and #46 hit head-on on the east side of the city killing one person and destroying 6 locomotives and derailing 22 cars.
July 15 –
United Kingdom
–
Kingham
, Oxfordshire. An express passenger train derailed due to the movement of a switch blade on a set of points after its bolts had been removed and the blade had not been clamped. Seventeen people were injured.
[
110
]
[
111
]
July 21 –
Pakistan
– A train crashed into a bus on a level crossing in
Lodhran
; 38 people were believed dead.
[
112
]
August 1 –
South Africa
– A train wreck at
Johannesburg
caused six deaths and 297 injuries. Africans then attacked the white train crew and were fired on by police.
[
113
]
September 13 –
Canada
– In
Corner Brook, Newfoundland
, a freight train crashed into a switching engine, killing three railwaymen in one of the locomotive cabs.
[
114
]
October 7 –
Canada
– The
Dorion level crossing accident
: In
Dorion
,
Quebec
, a chartered school bus carrying teenage students to a dance stopped at a level crossing while a
Canadian National Railway
passenger train passed through, but then one or more youths deliberately raised the barrier arm although a freight train approached in the other direction. The bus driver started onto the crossing and the resulting collision killed him and 19 students.
[
115
]
[
116
]
November 16 –
Brazil
– At
Nilópolis
, a suburban passenger train ran past signals and collided with another one, killing 38 people.
[
106
]
November 17 –
West Germany
– On the line from
Frankfurt
to
Königstein
, a diesel railcar left unattended at
Kelkheim
-Hornau station ran away eastward at speeds reaching 100 km/h (62 mph). An attempt to derail it at Kelkheim-Münster station failed and it crashed into a westbound passenger train near
Liederbach
, killing 7 people and injuring 80.
[
117
]
[
118
]
December 18 –
Spain
– An empty freight train running 8 hours late ran past signals as well as an emergency hand-signal at
Villafranca del Campo
and entered the single track toward
Santa Eulalia del Campo
before colliding head-on with a train of diesel
railcars
going from
Teruel
to
Zaragoza
, where most of the passengers are riding in the lead car; 29 people are killed.
[
119
]
December 28 –
United States
–
1966 Everett, Massachusetts train crash
: A tanker truck full of heating oil stalled on a level crossing at
Everett, Massachusetts
, when the brakes stuck on. A
Boston and Maine Railroad
train from
Boston
to
Rockport
, consisting of a single
Budd RDC
car, crashed into it and was engulfed in flame, killing 12 people out of about 25 on board.
[
120
]
[
121
]
1967
January 12 –
Botswana
– A
Rhodesian Railways
passenger train derailed between Malapiye Road and
Palapiye
, killing one man and seriously injuring three people.
[
122
]
February 28 –
United Kingdom
–
Stechford rail crash
: The locomotive of a ballast train collided with an
electric multiple unit
at
Stechford
,
Warwickshire
due to errors by the driver and a shunter, killing nine people and injuring 16.
[
123
]
[
124
]
March 5 –
United Kingdom
–
Connington South rail crash
: An express passenger train derailed at
Conington, Huntingdonshire
after a signalman moved a set of points under the train, killing five people and injuring 18. The signalman was subsequently convicted of endangering persons being conveyed on the railway but found not guilty on a
manslaughter
charge and was sentenced to two years' imprisonment.
[
125
]
May 22 –
United States
–
1967 New York City freight train collision
: Two freight trains collided in
Manhattan
, killing six.
[
126
]
Langenweddingen rail crash
July 6 –
East Germany
–
Langenweddingen level crossing disaster
,
Langenweddingen
near
Magdeburg
: Because of an overstretched cable preventing the proper operation of a level crossing's barriers, a local train collided with a lorry carrying 15,000 litres of light petrol and ignited. Ninety-four people were killed, of whom 44 were children on a holiday outing. After the accident, barrier-dependent train signalling was introduced on the
DR
network.
July 31 –
United Kingdom
–
Thirsk rail crash
, an express train from King's Cross to Edinburgh collided with the wreckage of a derailed freight train. Seven were killed and 45 injured, 15 seriously.
[
127
]
[
128
]
August 2 – Canada – At
Dunrankin, Ontario
, on the
Canadian National Railways
, an freight train emerging from a siding collided head-on with the westbound
Super Continental
. All four engine crewmen were killed.
[
129
]
[
130
]
September 17 –
United States
– On the
Mount Washington Cog Railway
in New Hampshire, a wrongly set switch derailed a train. The passenger car rolled 400 feet (120 m) down the mountain, killing 8 people and injuring 70 more.
[
131
]
[
132
]
November 5 –
United Kingdom
–
Hither Green rail crash
, a broken rail causes a derailment resulting in 49 deaths.
December 15 –
Canada
– Two
Canadian National Railways
locomotives on a siding at
Boston Bar, British Columbia
, were apparently deliberately started and left to run away unmanned on the main line. They traveled
8
+
1
⁄
2
miles (14 km) before colliding with a 95-car freight train in a 470-foot (140 m) tunnel, killing a railwayman and injuring several.
[
133
]
[
134
]
1968
January 6 –
United Kingdom
–
Hixon rail crash
, England: A
Manchester
-London express struck a vehicle carrying a 122-
short-ton
(109-
long-ton
)
transformer
at an automatic
level crossing
, killing 11 people and seriously injuring 27.
January 24 –
France
– An 8-car express train to
Paris
consisting of cars from
Brig
,
Bern
,
Interlaken
(all in Switzerland), and
Pontarlier
derailed near
Arbois
when the driver, impaired by alcohol, drove at about 135 kilometres per hour (84 mph) into a tunnel with a limit of 85 km/h. Two railwaymen were killed and 33 people injured. The driver was prosecuted (although not for intoxication) and received a 5-month prison sentence.
[
135
]
[
136
]
[
137
]
January 27 –
Brazil
– At
General Câmara
, an accident with a train heading for
Porto Alegre
killed 52 people,
[
138
]
or kills 41 people and injures 57.
[
139
]
February 27 –
Canada
– A
Canadian National Railways
train struck a rockslide near
Boston Bar
in
Fraser Canyon
, causing a locomotive to fall 150 ft (50 m) into the river and kill two crew members.
[
140
]
March 15 –
Spain
– On a downgrade near
Las Navas del Marqués
, a work train ran away, passed signals at
Santa María de la Alameda
, and ran onto the section from there to
Robledo de Chavela
, where it collided with a
Tren Español Rápido
DMU train en route from
Madrid
to
Ávila
, with both trains moving at about 100 km/h (60 mph). Twenty-eight people were killed and about 80 were injured, 50 seriously.
[
139
]
[
141
]
March 16 –
Canada
– At
Pefferlaw, Ontario
, a train had not completed its pull into a siding when it was struck by another train either misreading the lights or the lighting signals indicating a clear track ahead. The brakeman and 2 others died, four were injured. Both trains were operated by
Canadian National Railways
.
March 19 –
India
– At
Yalvigi
, the
Deccan Express
from Poona (now
Pune
) to
Bangalore
(now Bengaluru) collided head-on with a local train; at least 40 were killed and 38 injured.
[
139
]
June 24 –
Switzerland
–
Sion
: A freight train collided head-on with a train carrying passengers on an outing. Both drivers and 10 passengers were killed; 103 were injured, 17 seriously.
[
142
]
[
143
]
[
144
]
July 1 –
France
– At
Quincieux
, nine cars of an express from
Paris
to
Marseille
derailed, possibly due to
buckling of the track
in the 100 °F (38 °C) heat; 6 people were killed and 91 injured.
[
145
]
[
146
]
August 5 –
United States
– At Eloise, near
Winter Haven, Florida
, a vandal moved a temporary replacement
CTC
signaling cable on the
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad
so that a train ran over it. The northbound and southbound
Silver Meteor
trains (operating between
New York
and
Miami
) would normally have passed at Eloise. Due to the malfunction, both trains were given stop signals, but the switch was not set to take the northbound train onto the siding as it normally would be, and the CTC dispatcher did not warn the trains. On the northbound train the fireman was checking out a fault indication and the engineer, driving alone, missed the signals. The trains collided on the main line at about 50 miles per hour (80 km/h) and were seriously derailed. One passenger was killed; 202 passengers (including
Charles Edison
[
147
]
) and 28 crew were injured, 29 people needing hospitalization.
[
148
]
August 26 –
Canada
– In a landslide-prone area of the
Canadian Pacific Railway
11 miles (18 km) west of
Revelstoke, British Columbia
, a boulder weighing 4 tons smashed into the eastbound
Canadian
, derailing six other cars. One passenger was killed and two admitted to hospital.
[
149
]
September 15 –
United States
– San Antonio, Texas: At the
HemisFair
, a monorail train derailed, killing one person.
[
150
]
September 16 –
Canada
– In
Oakville, Ontario
, a 6-car
Canadian National Railways
Tempo
train from
Sarnia
to
Toronto, Ontario
, ran over a switch at exceessive speed and derailed, killing one passenger who happened to be walking between cars at the time and fell out. Eight people were injured. The coroner's inquest jury found that the engine crew had misread signals in fog.
[
151
]
[
152
]
September 20 -
Indonesia
- 116 people were killed and 84 people were seriously injured after two passenger trains collided in Ratujaya, Cipayung,
Depok
.
[
153
]
October 1 –
Greece
– Two trains carrying people returning to
Athens
after voting in their home towns in a
constitutional referendum
collided at
Corinth
, killing 34 people and injuring 150, resulting as the deadliest rail accident in Greece of all time before the
Tempi train crash
in 2023 and the worst Greek rail accident of the 20th century.
[
139
]
October 7 –
Romania
–
Bucerdea Grânoasă
: A fast passenger train collided head-on with a local train, killing 22 people and injuring 72.
[
154
]
November 21 –
Canada
– On the outskirts of
Peterborough, Ontario
, a
Canadian National Railways
local freight train from Peterborough to
Lindsay
crashed at about 35 miles per hour (56 km/h) into a school bus, which was dragged along the tracks. The bus driver said he was "taking a run" uphill on the snow-covered road and did not hear any whistle over the children on board. Two teenagers were killed and about 30 injured.
[
155
]
[
156
]
December 12 –
Hungary
–
Mende
: A fast passenger train collided head-on with a freight train, killing 43 people and injuring 60.
[
157
]
1969
January 4 –
United Kingdom
–
Marden rail crash
, a passenger train rear-ended a parcels train after passing a signal at danger, killing four people and injuring eleven.
February 3 –
Pakistan
– On a level crossing near
Lahore
, a train and bus collided, killing 29 people and injuring 11.
[
158
]
February 7 –
Australia
–
Violet Town rail accident
Victoria, A Southern Aurora train collided onto an Albury train, killing nine people and injuring 117.
[
159
]
May 7 –
United Kingdom
– A passenger train derailed at
Morpeth
,
Northumberland
due to excessive speed on a curve, killing six people and injuring 21.
July 15 –
India
– A freight train rear-ended a passenger train 25 miles (40 km) north of
Cuttack
, killing at least 100 people.
[
139
]
July 30 –
Yugoslavia
– Between
Tetovo
and
Gostivar
(both now in North Macedonia), a 2-car diesel
railcar
collided head-on with three tank cars running away downhill; 29 people were killed and 17 injured. Staff at Gostivar station were arrested for negligence.
[
160
]
August 20 –
United States
–
Darien, Connecticut
: Two
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
electric multiple units collided head-on along the single-track
New Canaan Branch
due to crew's disregard of
train orders
, killing three crew and one passenger.
[
161
]
December 31 –
Senegal
– A train from
Dakar
to
St-Louis
collided near
Thiès
with a goods train, killing at least 20.
[
160
]
See also
Lists of traffic collisions
– includes
level crossing
accidents
List of rail accidents in the United Kingdom
List of Russian rail accidents
List of years in rail transport
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