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The Berajondo train crash was a rail accident that took place outside of Berajondo, Queensland, Australia on November 15, 2004.^[1].

The site of the accident was approximately 419km from Roma Street station in Brisbane, just north of Berajondo on the Bundaberg to Gladstone line.

At 11:55pm when the northbound high speed diesel tilt train City of Townsville from Brisbane bound for Cairns, carrying 150 passengers and seven crew, failed to slow down for a very sharp 60 km/h curve, derailing the train. The train was estimated as traveling 112 km/h at the time of the accident, but investigators are still undecided on the role a broken wheel played in the event.

Seven of the train's passenger cars left the tracks. While there were no fatalities, some passengers suffered severe injury.

[edit] See also

[edit] Too fast around sharp curve

• Camp Mountain train disaster, 1947 - 16 killed - too fast (40 mph) around 20 mph curve
• Waterfall train disaster, 2003 - 7 killed - too fast around sharp curve.
• Bruehl train disaster, 2000 - 9 killed - too fast at a turnout in a construction zone at Bruehl station, Germany.
• Amagasaki rail crash - Japan
• Eltham Well Hall rail crash, 6 killed - too fast (65 mph) around 20 mph curve.
• Morpeth rail crash - This accident resembles those at Morpeth in the United Kingdom.
• Salisbury rail crash, 1906 - 28 killed - too fast around sharp curve.
• Sutton Coldfield train disaster, 1955 - 17 killed - too fast around sharp curve.
• Malbone Street Wreck, 1918 in New York - 98 people killed - too fast around sharp curve.

[edit] References

• The Courier-Mail. More than 100 hurt in train crash, retrieved December 29, 2004.
• The Courier-Mail. Wheel casing eyed in train crash, retrieved December 29, 2004.