List of 1950-1999 rail accidents

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List of rail accidents from 1950 to 1999.

For historic accidents before 1950, see List of pre-1950 rail accidents.

For accidents from 2000 to the present, see List of rail accidents.


Notable historic train accidents, 1950-1999
1950s: 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
1960s: 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
1970s: 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
1980s: 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
1990s: 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
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  • Flag of the United States September 5, 1956 – near Robinson, New Mexico, United States: Two Santa Fe express passenger trains collide when a railroad worker prematurely throws a switch directly in front of one of the trains. 20 railroad employees, mostly dining car personnel, are killed.[5]
  • Flag of Japan October 15, 1956 – An express train passes a traffic signal and safety catch point at Rokken railroad station, near Ise, Japan, colliding head-on with another express train, crushing four passenger cars, killing 44 people and injuring another 94.
  • Flag of India November 23, 1956 – A Madras-Tuticorin Express derailed at Maradaiyar River bridge at Ariyalur, Tamil-Nadu, India, killing at least 154 people.

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  • Flag of Finland March 15, 1957 – near Kuurila, Finland: The southbound night express train P64 Tornio - Helsinki hauled by Hr1 Pacific 1005 (Lokomo 132 / 1940) with 48 axles (12 coaches) collides head-on with Motor Express train MP41 Helsinki - Pori 16 axles (three coaches) hauled by motor wagon Dm4 1607 .26 were killed and 60 injured in Finland's worst peace-time train crash. The accident was a result of human mistake made at Kuurila station where permission was given to P64 (where it was stopped to let the northbound motor express train MP41, which was running late, to pass) on (then) single line between Toijala and Hämeenlinna on the Tampere - Helsinki main line, to departure when the station personel thought that MP41 had been stopped at Iittala to give free line for P64. At the moment the crash happened between Kuurila (km 136.3) and Iittala (km 129.3), in a curve, the speedometer of Hr1 1005 had stopped to 68 kph. This was lucky in this accident that Pacific hauled night express was not using its scheduled speed 110 kph over this section. As a result of this accident Dm4 1607 went to the pieces and was abandoned. But Hr1 1005 suffered only light damages when it breaked through the motor coach and halfway in next coach after Dm4 1607, before it collapsed to her right hand side.Most of the victims were in MP41. The driver of the Pacific died but the fireman survived. Both the driver and engine assistant on Dm4 1607 died. On the P64 only the sleeping car just behind the locomotive was badly damaged and had to be scrapped. Hr1 1005 was repaired (L4) back to working order at Hyvinkää Works and entered back to revenue earning service on May 15,1957.
  • Flag of Czechoslovakia April 27, 1957 – Bylnice, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic): A carriage packed with wood ran away during shunting from Brumov station and collided with a passenger train carrying 20 people. 10 killed, 4 injured, 6 left unharmed.
  • Flag of Jamaica Jamaica September 1, 1957 – Manchester, Jamaica, British West Indies: Chartered train returning to Kingston from Montego Bay derails, killing 197 and injuring more than 700.
  • Flag of Pakistan September 29, 1957 – Montgomery, Pakistan: An express train crashes into an oil train. 250 killed.
  • Flag of Turkey October 20, 1957 – Two Passenger trains, include Simplon Orient Express head collided at Sirkeci, outskirt of Istanbul, Turkey, Killing at least 95 people, injuring another 150.
  • Flag of England / Flag of the United Kingdom December 4, 1957 – Lewisham rail crash, England: A steam train passes a red signal in the fog and ploughs into the back of an electric train. The crash also destroys a support column of a railway bridge, causing parts of the bridge to collapse onto the wreck. 90 people are killed.

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  • Flag of Czechoslovakia August 27, 1961 – Vrbno pod Pradědem, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic): Three freight carriages which ran away during shunting collided with a passenger train. 19 killed, 17 injured.
  • Flag of Japan October 26, 1961 – Two cars of a commuter train run by Oita Traffic Company (Oita Kotsu) are hit by a mudslide after heavy rain at Ōita, eastern Kyūshū, Japan, killing 31 people and injuring another 36. Most of the passengers are senior high school students.
  • Flag of the United States December 14, 1961 – Auburn, Colorado, United States: An Union Pacific passenger train in route to Denver collides with a school bus carrying 36 children bound for Delta and Arlington elementary schools, Meeker Junior High, and Greeley High. 20 of the children were killed, 16 children and the driver survived.[8]

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  • Flag of the German Democratic Republic July 6, 1967 – Langenweddingen rail crash, Langenweddingen, East Germany near Magdeburg: Because of an overstretched cable preventing the proper operation of a level crossing's barriers, a local train collides with lorry carrying 15,000 litres of light petrol and ignites. 94 killed, of which 44 are children on a holiday trip. After the accident, barrier-dependent train signalling was introduced on the DR network.[7]
  • Flag of the Netherlands 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.[11]

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  • Flag of Germany February 9, 1971 – Aitrang, Germany: The TEE 56 »Bavaria«, a SBB RAm TEE DMU, heading from Munich to Zurich, derails while passing a curve shortly after Aitrang station. The maximum speed in the curve is 80 km/h, however the train passes the curve at 130 km/h because of frozen water in the air brake. Shortly after the TEE has derailed, a railbus hits the wreckage, coming from the opposite direction. 28 die, 42 are injured.[12]
  • Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina February 15, 1971 – According to former Yugoslav Tanjug news agency report, a diesel locomotive passenger train caught fire inside tunnel at outskirt of Zenica, Bosnia, killing 34, another 60 are injured.
  • Flag of Japan March 4, 1971 – A local train collides with a small truck that enters the crossing on the Fujikyu line, Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi, Japan, killing at least 17 people and injuring 69.
  • Flag of Germany May 27, 1971 – Radevormwald, Germany: Dahlerau train disaster - a railbus and a freight train collide on the single track line Wuppertal–Radevormwald near the station Dahlerau. The railbus was a special service carrying schoolchildren of a Radevormwald school. The local dispatcher claims to have signalled a red light to the freight train, whilst the freight train engineer claims to have seen a green one. Ultimately, the case cannot be resolved as the dispatcher is killed in a car accident before the legal hearings start. 41 die, 25 are injured. Worst rail accident in West Germany during Deutsche Bundesbahn times. The accident leads to the phasing out of the Nachtbefehlsstab, and presses the DB to introduce radio communications on branch lines.[12]
  • Flag of Germany July 21, 1971 – Rheinweiler, Germany: D 370 from Basel to Copenhagen passes a 75 km/h curve at about 140 km/h and derails, destroying a detached house; 23 die, 121 are injured. The suspected reason for the accident was a technical failure in the Class 103 engine's automatic cruise control mechanism, leading to the engine gaining too much speed. The cruise control was consequently disabled after the accident and restricted speed zones were equipped with PZB.[12][13]
  • Flag of Japan October 25, 1971 – Two limited express trains collide head-on in the Kintetsu Osaka Line tunnel at Hakusan (present-day Tsu), Mie, Japan, killing at least 25 people and injuring 236.

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The sleeping car involved in the Taunton train fire.
The sleeping car involved in the Taunton train fire.

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  • Flag of Argentina March 8, 1981 – A train traveling from Mar del Plata, Argentina to Buenos Aires smashes into a pair of derailed freight cars 60 miles (95 kilometers) south of the capital, killing 45 and injuring 120.
  • Flag of the Republic of China March 8, 1981 – A truck collides with a passenger train at a level crossing, sending five of the ten coaches over a bridge into a dry river bed in Hsinchu, Taiwan. Thirty are killed and 131 injured in what was the worst rail crash in Taiwan up to that point.
  • Flag of South Korea May 14, 1981 – Two express trains collide about 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Seoul, killing 54 people.
  • Flag of India June 6, 1981 – Bihar train disaster, India: Hundreds are killed (300-800) when a train falls into a river.
  • Flag of the People's Republic of China July 9, 1981 – Liziyida train disaster, China: A bridge was destroyed by mud-rock flow, while a passenger train was running towards it. Two locomotives, a mail carriage and a passenger carriage were flushed into the Dadu river by the flow, and other two passenger carriages derailed, 275 people killed or lost.
  • Flag of India July 17, 1981 – A freight train slams into the back of a passenger train in Madhya Pradesh, India, killing 39 people and injuring 43.
  • Flag of India July 19, 1981 – In an incident blamed on sabotage, a train traveling to Ahmedabad from New Delhi, India, derailed in Gujarat, killing 30 people and injuring 70.
  • Flag of India July 31, 1981 – Six coaches of a train derail near Bahawalpur, India, killing 43 and injuring 50.
  • Flag of New Zealand August 18, 1981 – According to TVNZ news report, a diesel powered train left the tracks on a sharp bend, and plunged down 26 feet between Tangiwai and Waiouru, New Zealand, killing four, another 13 are injured.
  • Flag of Hungary November 30, 1981 – Mohora, Hungary: Departmental train strikes a bus. 17 killed, 29 injured.

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  • Flag of the United States January 13, 1982 – Washington, D.C.: An Orange line train derails on the Washington Metro between the Smithsonian and Federal Triangle stations. While the train was being backed up, the derailed truck drives the aluminum car into a tunnel support, killing three people. By coincidence this happened at the same time Air Florida Flight 90 crashed into the 14th Street Bridge.
  • Flag of Algeria January 27, 1982 – A passenger train traveling from Oran to Algiers derailed 50 miles (80 km) west of the Algerian capital, killing at least 130 and injuring 146, in Algeria's worst train crash in 20 years.
  • Flag of India January 27, 1982 – A freight train and an express passenger train collide head-on in heavy fog near Agra, India, killing 50 and injuring 50.
  • Flag of India March 20, 1982 – A Mangalore-to-New Delhi train slams into a tourist bus at a level crossing in Andhra Pradesh, snapping the bus in two, killing at least 59 people on the bus and injuring 25 others.
  • Flag of the United States July 7, 1982 – Fair Lawn, New Jersey: Teenagers throw a switch and send a commuter train into a pasta factory resulting in the death of the engineer. Four teens are eventually charged with various crimes relating to the wreck.[19]
  • Flag of Mexico July 12, 1982 – An express train traveling from Mexicali to Guadalajara, Mexico, derails into a ravine near Tepic, killing 34 and injuring 136.
  • Flag of Germany August 2, 1982 – Ostercappeln, Germany: Two drunk British Army soldiers steal a tank at the Osnabrück barracks and crash into the oncoming D 15233 after the tank has been driven on the Rollbahn railway tracks. Both engines of the train and five cars derail, the tank is completely destroyed. 23 are injured, the two soldiers are instantly killed.[7][20]

[edit] 1983

  • Flag of Mexico February 20, 1983 – A train traveling from Nogales, Sonora, Mexico to Guadalajara is rammed in the rear by a freight train near Guaymas,exploded and killed at least 56 and injuring 78.
  • Flag of Germany May 27, 1983 – Frechen, Germany: The Oostende-Wien-Express night train derails owing to trackbed damage. The engine hits a bridge and the first car jackknifes into the wreckage. Seven are killed, 23 injured.
  • Flag of Egypt June 10, 1983 – According to Egyptian Al Gomhouria newspaper report, a Cairo-Luxor express train slammed into rear of another passenger train on same trsck at Al-Ayat, Giza, Egypt, killing 24, another 50 are injured.
  • Flag of Ireland August 21, 1983 – Cherryville Junction, County Kildare, Ireland: crash occurred when a train, which had run out of fuel and stopped on the tracks at Cherryville junction in Co. Kildare, was hit by a second train from the rear. 7 people were killed and 55 were injured. The official investigation found several organisational factors to have been substantial causes of the crash. These included: CIE rules that allowed drivers to proceed past red signals in certain circumstances; ambiguity of responsibility between the driver and the guard; and inadequate re-fuelling procedures.[21]

[edit] 1984

  • Flag of the United States June 14, 1984 – Motley, Minnesota, United States: Two Burlington Northern Railroad trains collide head-on.
  • Flag of Slovenia July 14, 1984 – Divača, Slovenia (former Yugoslavia): A freight train plows into the rear of a crowded passenger train, killing 31 and injuring 33.
  • Flag of India August 16, 1984 – According to Indian State railroad confirmed report, a passenger train hit a washed out bridge and plunged into flooded ravine at near Chargoon railroad station, Madhya Pradesh, India, killing 56, another 120 are injured.
  • Flag of Argentina October 31, 1984 – According to Argentine television network Telefe report, a commuter train rammed into the bus and shoved 600-feet down a rail tracks, where scattering wreckage and bodies along the way at San Justo, suburb of Buenos Aires, Argentina, killing 43, another ten are injured.
  • Flag of Hong Kong November 25, 1984 – Hong Kong: 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 before 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.
  • Flag of England / Flag of the United Kingdom December 11, 1984 – Wembley, London: A passenger train collided with a freight train at Wembley Central, killing 3 injuring 60.
  • Flag of Italy December 23, 1984 – Italy: 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.

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[edit] 1986

  • Flag of Canada February 8, 1986 – Hinton train collision, Dalehurst, Alberta, Canada: 23 lives lost when VIA Rail passenger train and CN freight train collide head-on. This led to the adoption of stricter crew scheduling practice and a complete rewrite of the operating rules.
  • Flag of Chile February 17, 1986 – Queronque rail disaster, according to Chilean government and TVN television report, a Valparaiso-Santiago express train head collided with local train, which carrying more 550 passengers on-board at Queronque bridge, outskirt of Limache, Quillota, Chile, in an incident caused by express train driver has exceeded speed on a sharp curved stretch. Chilean official confirmed, killing 62, another injured are 464.
  • Flag of India March 10, 1986 – Khagaria rail disaster, over 50 people are killed in a collision in Bihar.
  • Flag of Portugal May 5, 1986 – According to Portuguese RTP television report, a Lisbon-Covilha express train smashed standing commuter train at Povoa de Santa Iria station, Lisbon, Portugal, in an incident caused by a express train driver has exceed speed, killing 14, another injuring are 18.
  • Flag of the Soviet Union June 28, 1986 – An express train head collide with local train at Black Sea coastal resort town of Gagry, Georgia, killing at least 70 people, injuring another 140.
  • Flag of Thailand November 8, 1986 – Bangkok, Thailand: 5 people die and 7 are injured when an unmanned train runaway from the maintenance depot for 15 kilometer at a speed of 50 km/h toward Hua Lamphong station and hit the buffer stop.
  • Flag of Japan December 28, 1986 – According to TV Asahi and Fuji Television network report, an out of service train falled, that hit fish processing factory, caused by strong wind, at Amarube railroad bridge, Kasumi, Hyogo, Japan, one train conductor and five factory workers are killed.

[edit] 1987

  • Flag of the United States January 4, 1987 – Chase, Maryland rail wreck, Chase, Maryland, United States: The Amtrak Colonial express train, highballing at 130 miles per hour (210 kilometers per hour), slammed into a consist of Conrail freight locomotives whose engineer had ignored a stop signal and had fouled the Northeast Corridor mainline at Gunpow Interlocking. The force of the impact completely destroyed the lead Amtrak locomotive and derailed the rest of the train, killing the Amtrak engineer, a lounge car attendant and 14 passengers. The subsequent investigation revealed that the in-cab signaling system of the Conrail lead locomotive was inoperative and that the Conrail crew had been smoking marijuana. This notorious accident, Amtrak's most deadly at the time, caused the US railroad industry to tighten up drug use detection among operational personnel and subsequently led to the federal certification of locomotive engineers.
  • Flag of the United States 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 rusted rail prevented the freight car from activating the railroad's signal system.
  • Flag of India July 5, 1987 - According to United News of India report, a Deccan of Hyderabad-Hazrat Nizamuddin of Delhi Dakshin Express derailed at Macherial, Andhra Pradesh, killing 53.
  • Flag of Syria July 28, 1987 - Three cars of passenger train from Aleppo, that exploded at Al-Jazira, northern Syria, killing at least 50.
  • Flag of the Soviet Union August 7, 1987 - A freight train collided with standing passenger train in Kamensk rail road station, Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Rostov Oblast, killing at least 106.
  • Flag of Indonesia October 19, 1987 - A commuter train from Rankasbitung with 600 passenger on-board head collide with another commuter train with 300 passengers bound for Marak, where occurred at Bintaro Jaya, south of Jakarta, Indonesia, killing at least 102, injuring at least 300.
  • Flag of Sweden November 16, 1987 – Lerum, near Gothenburg, Sweden: two passenger trains collide at a station, killing 9 and injuring 140.

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[edit] 1989

  • Flag of Bangladesh January 15, 1989 – Two crowded trains carrying Muslim pigrims crashed head-on collided at Maizdi Khan, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing at least 135, injuring at least 1,000. Many people were riding on the roof of trains and between passenger cars.
  • Flag of the People's Republic of China January 18, 1989 – A passenger train plowed into a bus on an unattended crossing in Huinan, Tonghua, Jilin, China, a bus carrying local newly-weds and families, killing at least 32, another 41 injured.
  • Flag of the United Kingdom March 4, 1989 – Purley Station rail crash, London, England: As one train crosses over from one track to another, a second train runs a red signal and collides with the first train; the accident leaves six people dead and 94 injured.
  • Flag of India April 18, 1989 – Karnataka express train derailed at Lalitpur, Uttar Pradesh, India, killing 75 people.
  • Flag of Mexico May 4, 1989 – Tepic, Mexico: 20-52 (depending on reports) are killed after train brakes fail while descending a mountain side; the locomotive and three passenger cars flip on a curve and plunge down the ravine.
  • Flag of the United States May 12, 1989 – San Bernardino train disaster, San Bernardino, California: A Southern Pacific Railroad freight train derails on Duffy Street after descending the very steep Cajon Pass, killing two crew members and two children, ages 7 and 9. Eleven homes were severely damaged or completely destroyed in the accident. Thirteen days later fuel leaking from a pipe line damaged in the accident ignites, killing 2 people and causing further damage to homes.
  • Flag of the Soviet Union June 4, 1989 – Ufa train disaster, Soviet Union: 575 are killed and over 600 wounded when two trains pass near a leaking natural gas line which explodes.
  • Flag of the United States September 28, 1989 – Amtrak's Crescent, bound from Washington DC to New Orleans, Louisiana, hits a fire truck on an unguarded private grade crossing about 40 miles (64 km) south of Washington. Two firefighters are killed, and the other three seriously injured.
  • Flag of India November 1, 1989 – Udyan Abha Toofan express train derailed at Sakaldiha, Bihar, India, killing at least 48.

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[edit] 1990

[edit] 1991

  • Flag of England / Flag of the United Kingdom January 8, 1991 – London, England: A passenger train hits the buffers at Cannon Street Station. 1 person killed. 542 persons injured.
  • Flag of Japan April, 1991 – Shigaraki train disaster, Shigaraki, Shiga, Japan: 42 people were killed.
  • Flag of the United States July 31, 1991 – Lugoff, South Carolina, United States: The Amtrak Silver Star derails the rear portion of its consist on the former Seaboard Air Line of the CSXT Railroad when a faulty switch split (moved out of position) as the train passes over it, directing a coach into a hopper car standing on a siding, and derailing the following equipment. Eight passengers die and 76 are injured.
  • Flag of the United States August 28, 1991 – New York, New York: Five people are killed and more than 200 injured when a #4 Lexington Avenue express train derails going over a switch just north of Union Square. Two subway cars break open as they strike the steel tunnel support beams. The uninjured motorman, whom passengers report had been handling the train erratically, flees the scene and is arrested later, testing out as legally drunk. This accident, coupled with the Amtrak Colonial wreck at Chase, Maryland on January 4, 1987, is instrumental in driving new federal rules for engineer certification and toxicology testing.
  • Flag of France October, 1991 – Melun, France. A freight train overruns a closed signal, and fouls the path of the Nice-Paris night train. 16 people are killed. The accident was caused by a heart attack suffered by the freight train engineer. The deadman mechanism worked perfectly, but it was too late to stop the train in time. This led to the adoption of the KVB automatic train control system which will detect improper train handling.
  • Flag of the Republic of China November 15, 1991 – Miaoli, Taiwan. One south bound train and one north bound train collided into each other when the signals were broken, 30 died and 112 injured.

[edit] 1992

  • Flag of Sweden March 12, 1992 – Gothenburg, Sweden: A tram rolls backwards down a hill without control and derails near the bottom. There it glides sideways in a high speed into a tram stop where people are waiting. 13 killed, many injured.
  • Flag of the United States June 30, 1992 – near Superior, Wisconsin, United States: A Burlington Northern freight train transporting benzene encounters fatigued tracks and derails, plunging 3 tank cars off a trestle and into the Nemadji River. One of the cars ruptures, spilling 79 500 L (21,000 US gallons) of chemicals into the river, which are then carried into Lake Superior, forming a toxic cloud over Superior and Duluth, Minnesota. 40,000 area residents are evacuated; many suffer long-term health problems, and the damage to the surrounding environment is considerable.
  • Flag of the United States August 12, 1992 – just outside Newport News, Virginia, United States: Amtrak's Colonial passenger train, traveling at nearly 80 mph (130 km/h), enters a switch that had just moments before been opened by a pair of teenaged saboteurs. Though there are no fatalities, dozens are injured. 60 of the passengers subsequently sue Amtrak and CSX (who owned the right-of-way) for negligence, but the case is decided in favor of the railroad companies as it was determined that there was no way for the train crew to prevent the incident. The two teens are sentenced to federal prison terms for the crime.
  • Flag of the Netherlands November, 1992 – Hoofddorp, Netherlands: An Intercity train, travelling from Amsterdam to Vlissingen derailed near Hoofddorp. Five people died, 33 were injured.
  • Flag of Germany November 15, 1992 – 11 people die and 52 are injured when the wreckage of a derailed freight train is hit by an express train near Northeim, Germany. [25]

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[edit] 1994

[edit] 1995

The destroyed school bus in the Fox River Grove level crossing accident.
The destroyed school bus in the Fox River Grove level crossing accident.

[edit] 1996

Weyauwega derailment aftermath, March 5, 1996.
Weyauwega derailment aftermath, March 5, 1996.

[edit] 1997

  • Flag of Italy January 12, 1997 – A Pendolino train derails just before a train station at Piacenza, Italy, killing 8 and injuring 29 others. [29]
  • Flag of Spain March 31, 1997 – a RENFE intercity train derails at Uharte Arakil station at 130 km/h killing 18 and injuring 100.
  • Flag of India April 18, 1997 – Gorakhpur rail diasaster, Over 60 people are killed in a collision at Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh.
  • Flag of the People's Republic of China April 29, 1997 – No.324 express train Kunming-Zhengzhou collided with No.818 passenger train Changsha-Chaling to the end at the speed 110km/h, with thirteen cars derailed at Rongjiawan station, Yueyang, Hunan, China, killing 126, injuring more than 200.
  • Flag of Poland May 5, 1997 – Reptowo, Poland. At 12.25 p.m., a passenger train derailed and its restaurant car ("WARS") collided with a goods train - 12 killed.
  • Flag of the United States June 22, 1997 – Devine, Texas, United States: Two freight trains collided on a highway overpass, resulting in 4 deaths and an estimated 250-750 gallons of diesel fuel spilling out. A portion of the fuel burned off, while the rest mixed with leaking engine oil. The fuel and oil mixture leaked into two storm drains below, which was then carried by heavy rains southward to a spillyway, and into a freshwater creek. Nearby residences were evacuated, and an extensive clean-up was promptly carried out.
  • Flag of India July 8, 1997 – Lehra Khanna Station bombing, 33 people are killed by a terrorist bomb left on a station at Lehra Khanna in the Punjab.
  • Flag of India July 28, 1997 – Faridabad train crash, 12 people die in a collision at Faridabad in the Delhi suburbs.[30]
  • Flag of India September 14, 1997 – Bilaspur rail disaster, 120 people are killed in a derailment on a bridge in Bilaspur province in Chhattisgarh.
  • Flag of England / Flag of the United Kingdom September 19, 1997 – Southall rail crash, London, England. A passenger train collides with a freight train, killing 6.
  • Flag of Australia October 23, 1997 – Beresfield rail disaster, Australia: coal train collides with the rear of an earlier coal train and blocks all tracks causing collisions with other trains - SPAD.
  • Flag of Germany December 9, 1997 – Hanover, Germany: A regional train carrying more than 300 passengers collides with a freight train consisting of 20 tanker cars filled with petrol. Five of the wrecked tankers ignite and explode. More than 90 injured.[31]
  • Flag of Pakistan December 25, 1997 – According to Pakistan Television report, a Karachi-Islamabad Rohi Express slammed into standing passenger train at Rostam Sargana, Jhang, Pakistan, killing 32, another injuring are 40.

[edit] 1998

  • Flag of India January 5, 1998 – Karna train crash, In Karna, 400 miles (640 km) southeast of New Delhi, at least 51 people died and 62 injured when a passenger train sped through a red light in fog and slammed into a stopped train (that had hit a cow).
Destroyed cars from the Eschede train disaster
Destroyed cars from the Eschede train disaster
  • Flag of Cameroon February 15, 1998 – Yaounde train explosion, Cameroon, Spilt fuel oil from a tanker train crash ignited and exploded, killing over 100 people.
  • Flag of Azerbaijan February 21, 1998 – South east Baku crash, Azerbaijan. A Russian freight train had hit a farm truck on a level crossing, near Baku, at high speed. It was reported that only the 2 farmers were badly hurt and the driver luckily got off with only minor injuries after the crash. The freighter was carrying 2 parcel wagons, an empty flat-car and 5 atomic waste flasks. 2 of the flasks were being examined for leakages and a 10 km exclusion-zone had been created as a temporary safety measure until the flask were fully checked out. 1,000 people are currently in emergency accommodation out side the exclusion zone. The Azeri government has set up a liaison committee with the Russian embassy in Baku. German technical crews are also being sent to Azerbaijan just in case there specialist radiation equipment is needed. It was confirmed that there is no immediate hazard and it’s aptly being dealt with. [32]
  • Flag of Finland March 6, 1998 – Jyväskylä rail crash: express passenger train derails at Jyväskylä, Finland, as a result of over-speeding while passing over a slow-speed turnout. The locomotive driver and nine passengers were killed, 94 were injured.
  • Flag of India April 4, 1998 – Fatuha train crash, At least 11 people die in derailment near Patna(near Fatuha station) on the Howrah-Delhi main line as Howrah-Danapur Express derails between between Fatuha and Bankaghat stations.
  • Flag of India April 24, 1998 – 15 car of freight train collide with Manmad-Kacheguda express at Parli Vaijanath station, Madhya Pradesh, India, killing 24, another 32 are injured.
  • Flag of Germany June 3, 1998 – Eschede train disaster, Eschede, Germany: Part of a high-speed ICE train derails because of a faulty wheel rim and strikes a bridge. The bridge collapses as the third car hits its pylons, the remaining cars and the rear power unit jackknife into the pile. The first three carriages are separated from each other and come to a halt at Eschede railway station whilst the undamaged power car continues for another two kilometres until its brakes are automatically applied. 101 are killed.
  • Flag of the United States June 18, 1998 – Burns Harbor, Indiana, United States: The westbound Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District train number 102 strikes a semi-truck that was stopped on a grade crossing. 3 passengers are killed when the truck's steel cargo smashed through the front of the train.
  • Flag of England / Flag of the United Kingdom August 7, 1998- 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 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 knock out of the carriage door or mistook it for an interior door. [33] . The 'Tamworth Triangle' covered an area between Nuneaton, Alrewas and Tamworth that saw an unusually high amount of minor rail accidents at the time.

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