List of rail accidents (2010–present)

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This is a list of rail accidents since 2010.

2010s

2010

• 2 January 2010 – India – The first of three accidents in Uttar Pradesh near the town of Etawah, about 170 miles (270 kilometres) southwest of Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh state, when the Lichchavi Express entering the station in heavy fog runs into the stationary Magadh Express train stopped there. Ten people, including the driver of one of the trains, were injured.^[1] At least 10 people were reported to have been killed.^[2]
• 2 January 2010 – India – The Gorakhdham Express and Prayagraj Express collide near the Panki railway station in Kanpur, about 100 kilometres (62 mi) southwest of Lucknow, left five people dead and about 40 injured.^[3]
• 2 January 2010 – India – At Pratapgarh, 61 kilometres (38 mi) from Allahabad, the Sarayu Express ploughs into a tractor trailer at an unmanned railway crossing. Though nobody is injured, the engine of the train is severely damaged.^[4]
• 2 January 2010 – India – The Arunachal Pradesh Express derailed near Helem. All seven cars left the track. No injuries were reported.^[5] Timely actions of operators and a guard diverted the train to a secondary track, and the platform was evacuated. One of the carriages plunged into a Holiday Inn hotel's offices causing severe structural damage. There were no casualties. Only the conductor of the train, which carried no passengers, was slightly hurt.^[6]

• 4 January 2010 – United Kingdom – A freight train hauled by a Class 66 locomotive derails at Carrbridge in snowy weather, blocking the Highland Main Line.^[7] The freight train passed a signal at danger and was deliberately derailed on trap points.^[8] The line is reopened on 12 January 2010.^[9]

• 4 January 2010 – Finland – A passenger train suffers a brake failure and crashes into a hotel at Helsinki Central station.^[10]
• 12 February 2010 – United States – At 10.13, a train derails in the pocket track just north of Farragut North Washington Metro station when the front car leaves the tracks. Of the nearly 400 passengers on board, one person was taken to hospital.^[11][12]
• 15 February 2010 – Belgium – Two passenger trains collide head-on in Buizingen near Brussels. 18 people were killed and 162 were injured.^[13]
• 25 February 2010 – Canada – A Via Rail train 15 travelling from Halifax to Montreal derails near Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse outside Quebec City, injuring four people and causing significant damage to nearby homes.^[14]
• 15 March 2010 – United States – A METRO bus collides with a light rail METRO train in Houston, Texas, injuring nearly 20 people.^[15]
• 24 March 2010 – Norway – Sixteen goods wagons runaway for 8 km (5 mi) from a goods yard at Alnabu in Oslo hit and destroy a quayside warehouse. Three people died and four were seriously injured.^[16]
• 29 March 2010 – Russia – At least thirty-eight people die after two female suicide bombers strike the Moscow Metro.
• 30 March 2010 – Canada – No one is injured in a freight train derailment when three non-operating locomotives derail and nine freight cars go off the tracks near Pickering GO station.^[17]
• 1 April 2010 – Slovakia – A locomotive runs into a stationary passenger train after its brakes failed during a test ride in Spišská Nová Ves, Slovakia, killing three people and seriously injuring eight.^[18]

• 12 April 2010 – Italy – A passenger train is hit by a landslide and partially derails near Merano, South Tyrol, killing 9 and injuring 28.^[19]
• 21 April 2010 – South Africa – The coaches of a luxury tourist train operated by Rovos Rail, run away and derail at Pretoria during a locomotive changeover. Three crew members died in the incident: two died at the scene while the third, a woman four months pregnant, died in the hospital. The accident left 9 passengers injured, six of them critically.^[20]
• 4 May 2010 – Australia – A passenger train collides with a freight train approximately 3 km (2 mi) south of Craigieburn railway station, injuring 5.^[21]
• 13 May 2010 – United States – A northbound Amtrak Piedmont collides with a truck towing a low loader in Mebane, North Carolina. 11 are injured.^[22]
• 23 May 2010 – China – A passenger train derails in China, killing 19 people and injuring 71, after being knocked-off the tracks by a landslide in a mountainous area of Jiangxi province.^[23]
• 25 May 2010 – India – A passenger train derails at Naugachia, injuring eleven people.^[24]
• 28 May 2010 – India – A train derails in the West Midnapore district of West Bengal, caused by either sabotage or a bomb that damaged the railway track, and was struck by an on-coming goods train, resulting in 148 passenger deaths.^[25]
• 6 June 2010 – United Kingdom – A passenger train collides with boulders that had fallen on the line near Falls of Cruachan, derails and catches fire. Several people were hospitalised and the line was blocked for a week.^{[26][27][28][29][30]}
• 18 June 2010 – India – Eight coaches and two engines of the Vasco-Howrah Amaravati Express (8048) derail near Koppal in Karnataka, India after the train had struck a road roller at an un-manned level-crossing. Six people, including the drivers of the road roller and the train, are injured.^[31]
• 20 June 2010 – South Africa – A steam-hauled passenger train from Pretoria to Cullinan derails near Cullinan due to defective track. A number of sleepers had been stolen. 15F 4-8-2 No 3117 was severely damaged as it ended up lying on its side.^[32]
• 22 June 2010 – Republic of the Congo – A passenger train derails between Bilinga and Tchitondi, about 60 km (37 mi) from Pointe-Noire. At least 76 people died, and others were injured.^[33][34]
• 23 June 2010 – Spain – 12 people die and 14 are injured when they are struck by an Alaris while crossing the railway tracks at Castelldefels Playa station.^[35]
• 28 June 2010 – Czech Republic – A CityElefant passenger train from Prague to Ústí nad Labem derails while entering the Ústí nad Labem station, killing the driver and injuring 11 passengers. The cause of the derailment is unknown; the train's 108 km/h (67 mph) speed exceeded the local 50 km/h (31 mph) speed limit and may have been a factor.^[36]
• 13 July 2010 – Poland – Two trains collide at Korzybie, north Poland, injuring 36.^[37]
• 19 July 2010 – India – At least 63 people die and over 150 are injured when the Uttar Banga Express is involved in a rear-end collision with the stationary Vananchal Express at Sainthia railway station, West Bengal.^{[38][38][39][39][40]}

• 23 July 2010 – Switzerland – One person is killed and 42 are injured when an east-bound Glacier Express derails near Fiesch on the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn.^[41][42]
• 25 July 2010 – Netherlands – The driver and a second rail worker are injured when a Speno railgrinder fails to stop in front of the buffer stop at Stavoren. A shop lying behind the track is demolished.^[43]
• 6 August 2010 – Italy – One person dies and about 40 are injured in a train derailment in Naples, Italy, on the Circumvesuviana railway.
• 6 August 2010 – Israel – A passenger train strikes a minibus near Kiryat Gat; seven people die and 20 are injured.^[44]
• 17 August 2010 – United Kingdom – A sewage tanker lorry strikes and derails a passenger train (the 17.31 service from Sudbury to Marks Tey) on a level crossing at Little Cornard, Suffolk. Eighteen people are injured, two of them seriously.^[45]
• 17 August 2010 – Germany – The Intercity-Express from Frankfurt to Paris hits a truck that had slid onto the railway near Lambrecht. The first two carriages derailed and ten people were injured, one seriously.^[46]
• 17 August 2010 – India – Four people die in a train accident on the Faizabad-Lucknow rail-section at Goryamau railway station of Barabanki district located between the towns of Rudauli and Rozagaon.^[47]
• 25 August 2010 – South Africa – A Metrorail commuter train strikes a minibus taxi carrying children to school. Ten are killed and five injured. Witnesses state that the minibus drove around closed booms; the driver was charged with culpable homicide.^[48] On 12 December 2011, the taxi driver was convicted in the Western Cape High Court on ten counts of murder and four counts of attempted murder and on 28 February 2012, the judge sentenced him to an effective 20 years imprisonment.^[49]
• 10 September 2010 – United States – A conductor loses his arm when two trains collide in Fontana, California.^[50]
• 12 September 2010 – Sweden – A woman dies, two people are seriously injured and 15 more are brought to hospital with minor injuries, when an X 2000 high speed train collides with a backhoe loader at Kimstad near Linköping.^[51]
• 24 September 2010 – Tunisia – Two trains collide at Bir El Bay, killing one and injuring 57.
• 25 September 2010 – New Zealand – A freight train derails after hitting a landslip in the Manawatu Gorge. The crew remained unhurt, but the line was closed for nine days while the slip was cleared.^[52]
• 30 September 2010 – New Zealand – A Wellington commuter EMU derails after striking a landslip and is struck less than a minute later by a sister unit travelling on the opposite line. Two people are hospitalised and others suffer light injuries. The drivers of the two units were father-and-son.
• 30 September 2010 – United States – Two Canadian National ore trains collide head on twelve miles north of Two Harbors, Minnesota, injuring all five crew members.^[53]

• 1 October 2010 – Norway – 40 people are injured when a train derails at Skotterud.
• 2 October 2010 – Indonesia – 36 people are killed and 60 are injured when a train runs into the back of another at Petarukan.
• 2 October 2010 – Indonesia – A train crashes at Solo killing one person.^[54]
• 12 October 2010 – Ukraine – At least 43 people are killed in a collision between a train and a bus at Marhanets, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.^[55]

• 5 November 2010 – United Kingdom – Six passengers are injured when a lorry falls off an overbridge onto a passing train at Oxshott, Surrey (pictured). The driver of the lorry is seriously injured.^[56]
• 28 December 2010 – United Kingdom – a passenger train runs into a large amount of ice in Summit Tunnel, Todmorden, West Yorkshire and derails.^[57]

2011

• 1 January 2011 – Argentina – Two passenger trains collide in Buenos Aires, injuring forty-five people.^[58]
• 29 January 2011 – Germany – 2011 Saxony-Anhalt train collision – a freight train and a passenger train collide near Hordorf in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany on the Magdeburg–Thale line. The passenger train derails. Ten people die and twenty-three people are injured.^[59]
• 17 February 2011 – Argentina – According to AOL News online, a train departing from Retiro station in the capital runs into the back of another train near San Miguel rail station. Four passengers die, one hundred and twenty are injured, fourteen severely. Federal Judge Juan Manuel Yalj is in charge of the investigation. Two of the four brakes from the Ferrobaires train's engine are reported un-usable because "one was blocked and the other had been locked and nailed down."

• 11 March 2011 – Japan – 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami – four trains are missing on lines running along the north east coast of Japan following an earthquake and subsequent tsunami.^[60]
• 13 March 2011 – United States – 2011 California BART train derailment – two cars of a ten car BART train derail in Northern California. Three minor back injuries are reported.^[61]
• 27 March 2011 – Canada – About 20 cars of a 116-car train derail Sunday afternoon near Port Hope en route to Toronto. Families in twenty houses flee and a major passenger rail corridor is shut down. One empty derailed car catches fire and burns for about an hour.^[62]
• 28 March 2011 – United States – A CSX train travelling through Newton Falls, Ohio with an estimated 100-cars of mixed freight (including hoppers and tank wagons), suffers a 12-car derailment at approximately 07.00 (local time) Eastern Daylight Time. Three rail cars fall off a bridge and onto Center Street.^[63] Several of the tank cars are carrying chlorine; none are involved in the derailment. Initial reports indicate that at least one car may have leaked ammonia, but officials do not believe that any hazardous materials have escaped into the environment. Residents within 150 metres of the incident are evacuated, and most roads leading into town are closed by law enforcement officers. Local HAZMAT officials arrive to assess the scene, and the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation opens an inquiry into the incident 'as a matter of standard procedure'.^[64][65]

• 7 April 2011 – Israel – Two trains collide near Netanya, injuring 60 people.^[66]
• 17 April 2011 – United States – A Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway train hauling 130-cars of coal from Wyoming to Chicago rear-ends another train hauling maintenance equipment near Red Oak, Iowa about 07.00 (local time) on Sunday 17 April 2011. The lead locomotive on the coal train derails and fire engulfs the cab. The crew of two, the conductor and engineer, on the coal train are killed. Ten cars on the maintenance train derail. The two crew members on the maintenance train are not injured. The line is heavily trafficked and is shut down for 24 hours, with trains re-routed. An investigation is conducted by the NTSB.^[67][68]
• 27 April 2011 – Taiwan – Six people are killed and 61 injured in Alishan when a falling tree strikes a train carrying mostly tourists from mainland China.^[69]
• 28 April 2011 – Poland – A train derails after hitting a lorry in Mosty, Pomeranian Voivodeship, killing two and injuring at least twenty people.^[70]
• 20 May 2011 – South Africa – 857 people are injured, 25 seriously, when a rear-end collision occurs at Soweto.^[71]
• 27 May 2011 – Japan – The limited-express train Super Ōzora No. 14, en route from Kushiro to Sapporo in Hokkaido, catches fire in a tunnel on the Sekishō Line after the second car of the six-car formation derails. None of the 245 passengers and crew are killed, but 39 are treated for smoke inhalation or minor burn injuries, and the train is a total loss. It is the first in a series of incidents over the summer that lead to harsh criticism of JR Hokkaido's safety procedures, as well as the apparent suicide of the company president.^[72]
• 3 June 2011 – United States – A Burlington Northern commuter train from Aurora, Illinois and an Amtrak train heading to Carbondale, Illinois collide at Chicago's Union Station at about 08.15, injuring at least five people. One of the trains derails.^[73]
• 16 June 2011 – Norway – 2011 Hallingskeid Station fire – A fire started in the snow tunnel at Hallingskeid Station. It was caused by sparks from welding.^[74]
• 24 June 2011 – United States – Reno, Nevada: Despite the working signals on the track, an semi, driving on a rural stretch of U.S. Route 95 near Reno and Sparks, strikes one of the cars of a west-bound California Zephyr Amtrak passenger train, killing at least six people, according to Nevada Highway Patrol Trooper Dan Lopez and the Churchill County Sheriff's Office (the driver of the articulated lorry, whose reason or motivation remains unclear at this time, and an Amtrak conductor on board the train are two confirmed deaths so far).^[75]
• 7 July 2011 – India – A Mathura Chhapra Express train rams into a bus carrying wedding guests around 02.00 at an un-manned railway crossing in Thanagaon, Kanshiram Nagar district, Uttar Pradesh, killing 38 and injuring thirty.^[76]
• 10 July 2011 – India – Fatehpur derailment – The Kalka Mail train running from Howrah to Delhi derails near the town of Fatehpur in Uttar Pradesh, killing seventy people and injuring more than three hundred.^[77][78]
• 10 July 2011 – India – The engine along with four coaches of the Guwahati Puri Express derails between Rangiya and Ghagrapar, Nalbari district, Assam and capsizes in a rivulet, injuring more than one hundred people, twenty critically.^[79]
• 11 July 2011 – United States – An Amtrak Downeaster passenger train from Boston, Massachusetts heading to Portland, Maine is struck by a dustbin lorry at a crossing in North Berwick, Maine, killing the driver of the lorry and setting the locomotive and one passenger car on fire.^[80]

• 23 July 2011 – China – Wenzhou train collision – Due to signal failure, a high-speed train rear-ends a stopped high-speed train at a speed of 99 km/h (62 mph) near Wenzhou in the province of Zhejiang, killing forty people and injuring at least 192.^[81] Six carriages derail, four carriages fall off a viaduct.^[82]
• 26 July 2011 – Germany – A locomotive caught on fire within the Berlin Ostbahnhof around 15:40 CET. Traffic was interrupted for a few hours while the fire was fought down. There were no casualties, but the locomotive was destroyed and the coach coupled to it was damaged.^[83][84]
• 26 July 2011 – Poland – Seven goods wagons roll uncontrolled 2 km (1.2 mi) and then derail and crash into a Strzelce Krajeńskie Wschód railway station building. Three people die.^[85]
• 31 July 2011 – India – The engine and some coaches of the Guwahati Bangalore Express derail and are hit by another train in Malda district, West Bengal. At least three people are killed and two hundred are injured.^[86]
• 8 August 2011 – Switzerland – A passenger train and locomotive collide at Döttingen. Twenty-two people are injured. The passenger train had passed a signal at danger.^[87]
• 12 August 2011 – Poland – 2011 Baby derailment – A passenger train with 280 passengers derails due to high speed at Baby, Piotrków County, killing one passenger and injuring 84.^[88]
• 31 August 2011 – India – Two goods trains collide near Tangiriapal railway station, about 65 km (40 mi) from Keonjhar on the Jakhapura-Banspani railway line around 01.30. Five members of the train crew are killed.^[89]
• 13 September 2011 – India – A passenger train fails to slow at a signal and slams into a stationary cargo train near Chennai, Tamil Nadu, killing ten and injuring fifty-two.^[90]
• 13 September 2011 – Argentina – 2011 Flores rail crash – In the Flores barrio of Buenos Aires, a bus crashes into a train, which derails and collides with a second train, killing eleven and injuring 228, twenty severely. Lights were flashing but the crossing barriers may have been blocked from fully lowering.^[91][92]
• 15 September 2011 – Argentina – A collision in Buenos Aires between a bus, a concrete mixer and a light-rail train injures 90 people during morning rush-hour traffic.^[93]

• 17 September 2011 – Sri Lanka – 2011 Alawwa rail accident – A passenger train rams into an observation car at the back of another train near Alawwa, about 60 km (37 mi) northeast of Colombo, killing three and injuring 27.^[94]

• 6 October 2011 – Switzerland – Two trains collide at Olten. Two people are injured.^[87]
• 7 October 2011 – United States – 26 cars of a 131-car freight train derail and explode near Tiskilwa in Bureau County, Illinois, approximately 160 kilometres (99 mi) west of Chicago. No injuries are reported; 800 people are evacuated.^[95][96]
• 12 October 2011 – United States – In Oakland, California a southbound Amtrak San Joaquin train passes a red signal and collides with a stopped Coast Starlight train at low speed, injuring seventeen people.^[97]
• 31 October 2011 – Malaysia – A Sabah State Railway train carrying 200 passengers collides with a petrol tanker in Kota Kinabalu resulting in an explosion injuring twelve passengers.^[98]
• 1 November 2011 – Moldova – A bus collided with a train in Anenii Noi, killing eight people and leaving a dozen injured, all the casualties were on the bus.^[99]
• 2 November 2011 – Argentina – A freight train collides with a school bus in a rural area of San Luis Province, eight girls are killed and 41 are injured.^[100]
• 22 November 2011 – India – A fire on board a Doon Express train in Jharkhand destroys two coaches, killing seven people including one Australian woman.^[101]
• 27 December 2011 – Australia – Flood waters from Tropical Cyclone Grant wash away the southern abutment of the Edith River bridge, derailing a northbound GWA intermodal freight train on its way to Darwin near Katherine, south of Darwin, injuring one crew member. A crew van and five wagons fall into the river.^{[102][103][104]}

2012

• 6 January 2012 – United States – Three CSX freight trains collide in a remote section of Porter County, Indiana resulting in a fire and possible HAZMAT situation. Two injuries are reported.^[105]
• 13 January 2012 – Germany – A passenger train of Nord-Ostsee-Bahn collides with a herd of cattle on the track from Sylt island to Hamburg, near Bargum, Nordfriesland. One passenger dies and three are injured.^[106]
• 17 January 2012 – Canada – two freight trains collide 55 kilometres (34 mi) north of Hinton, Alberta.^[107]
• 17 January 2012 – United States – A BNSF freight train collides with a tractor trailer in northeast Montana, causing ten rail cars to derail, including four locomotives and blocking the traffic on the rail line.^[108]
• 19 January 2012 – Spain – A commuter train collides with an empty train at Barcelona Clot Aragó station after the first train failed to obey a restriction signal. six people are injured.^[109]
• 20 January 2012 – Canada – Eighteen CN freight train cars derail near the hamlet of Hay Lakes, Alberta. No hazardous goods are on the train.^[110]
• 21 January 2012 – Canada – CN train derails roughly halfway across the Wainwright, Alberta railway bridge. 31 grain cars derail, 17 of them fall off the bridge and into the valley below.^[107]
• 1 February 2012 – United States – The Amtrak Wolverine train from Pontiac, Michigan to Chicago, carrying 71 passengers and 5 crew, strikes a stalled tractor trailer (carrying equipment for oil production) on tracks in Leoni Township, Michigan. The lead engine and at least two cars derail. There are no fatalities, and six people suffer non-life-threatening injuries, according to the Jackson Citizen Patriot and the Blackman-Leoni Public Safety Department.^[111]
• 3 February 2012 – India – A passenger train derails after striking a construction vehicle in the Indian state of Assam, killing three people and injuring fifty.^[112]
• 9 February 2012 – Spain – A commuter train crashes into a buffer stop at Mataró station, 30 km (19 mi) northeast of Barcelona. The driver is seriously injured and ten passengers are injured.^[113]

• 15 February 2012 – Norway – A brand-new passenger train derails near Nykirke after going far too fast on the Vestfold Line, because of driver error. Five crew members are injured. There are no passengers on board. There is no automatic surveillance of most curve speed limits on this line.^[114]

• 22 February 2012 – Argentina – 2012 Buenos Aires rail disaster – A train crashes into a buffer stop at a station in Buenos Aires. 51 people die and more than 700 are injured.^[115]
• 26 February 2012 – Canada – 2012 Burlington VIA derailment – A Via Rail train derails near Burlington, Ontario. Three engineers die, and dozens are injured.^[116]

• 3 March 2012 – Poland – Szczekociny rail crash – Two passenger trains derail in a head-on collision near Szczekociny. sixteen people die and 58 are injured.^[117]
• 6 March 2012 – Ireland – A number of detonators explode in the driver's kit in the train cab of a DART train, injuring the train driver's hands and possibly his hearing. Train drivers carry 10 detonators for safety reasons; they are placed on tracks if there has been an accident or engineering works to notify other train drivers. These should only explode with the force of a train going over them. They are replaced every 5 years and the ones in question were replaced just over a year ago. Irish Rail have withdrawn all detonators that were replaced January 2011 as a precaution. The train was taken out of service as there was damage to the train cab.^[118][119]
• 13 April 2012 – Germany – A regional train on its way from Frankfurt to Hanau collides with a railway maintenance vehicle (a combined excavator and crane as a road-rail vehicle) on the same track. This accident near Offenbach claims the lives of the train's driver and of two construction workers. 12 train passengers and one conductor sustain injuries; several of these have to be treated in a hospital. The investigation finds that the excavator had been deployed onto the wrong track: not the one reserved for construction works, but on the live track.^{[120][121][122]}

• 21 April 2012 – Netherlands – Sloterdijk train collision – Two trains are involved in a head-on collision between Amsterdam Centraal and Amsterdam Sloterdijk stations; one person dies, at least 117 people are injured.^[123][124]
• 10 May 2012 – Romania – More than 92 people are injured in a crash involving three trams in western Bucharest.^[125]
• 22 May 2012 – India – Penukonda train collision – In the early hours of 22 May 2012, the Bangalore bound Hampi Express crashed into a stationary freight train near Penukonda, in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The incident killed twenty-five people while 43 people were said to be injured.^[126]
• 31 May 2012 – India – Mahrawa derailment – four people die and over fifty are injured in the Mahrawa derailment of the Doon express in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.^[127]
• 12 June 2012 – Germany – A tram ran full speed into two waiting trams at a tramstop in Essen. The operator of the tram was unable to stop within time to avoid a collision. 28 people are injured.^[128]
• 24 June 2012 – United States – Three crew members were killed when two Union Pacific trains slammed into each other just east of Goodwell, about 480 kilometres northwest of Oklahoma City. The crash triggered a diesel-fueled fireball that appeared to weld the locomotives together.^[129][130]
• 4 July 2012 – United States – A Union Pacific coal train heading to Wisconsin derails, collapsing an overpass on Shermer Road in Glenview, Illinois at about 13.45. A day later, a couple, having been crushed by the falling coal and cars, are found dead in their car buried beneath the rubble.^[131]
• 11 July 2012 – United States – A Norfolk Southern train with 2 locomotives and 98 cars derails in Columbus, Ohio, near the Ohio State Fairgrounds at 02.05 CDT. The resulting explosion, caused in part due to the burning of 76,000 litres (17,000 imperial gallons) of ethanol, causes a mile-wide evacuation. At the time of the explosion, two nearby individuals are injured; they drive themselves to hospital.^[132]
• 13 July 2012 – South Africa – Hectorspruit level crossing accident – A goods train hauling coal from Witbank to Maputo smashes into a truck carrying 44 farm workers at a controlled level crossing near Hectorspruit, Mpumalanga, killing 26 people.^[133]
• 17 July 2012 – Egypt – A passenger train strikes wooden planks and chunks of metal put down by people to cross the tracks and derails at Giza, near Cairo, injuring fifteen passengers.^[134]
• 21 July 2012 – United States – A Kansas City Southern freight train collides with a BNSF coal train and derails in Barton County, MO, injuring two railway workers.^[135]
• 30 July 2012 – India – Nellore train fire – 32 passengers die and 27 are injured in the early morning Nellore train fire on the Delhi-Chennai Tamil Nadu Express near Nellore, Andhra Pradesh.^[136]
• 6 August 2012 – Argentina – At least 35 people are injured, six seriously, when a train derails and crashes into an electricity pylon in a central station of Retiro in the city of Buenos Aires.^[137]
• 21 August 2012 – United States – Two women celebrating the night before their return to university on a railway bridge die shortly after midnight when a CSX coal train derails on the bridge in downtown Ellicott City, Maryland, burying the women under coal.^[138] The NTSB investigation attributed the probable cause of the derailment to a broken rail.^[139]
• 30 August 2012 – United Kingdom – A passenger train strikes a landslide and derails at St. Bees, Cumbria.^[140]
• 11 September 2012 – Netherlands – A HTM city tram crashed into the back of another HTM city tram at an intersection near the railroad station of The Hague Hollands Spoor. Both were carrying a good amount of passengers. 36 people got injured, including one of the operators.^[141]
• 14 September 2012 – Australia – At 6.32am, a northbound Queensland Rail passenger train collided with a heavy vehicle that had become grounded on the St Vincents Road level crossing at Banyo. The driver of the heavy vehicle sustained serious injuries.^[142]
• 24 September 2012 – Italy – The train driver died, and 25 passengers were injured when a high-speed Freccia Argento train, travelling between Rome and Lecce collided with a lorry at a level crossing in Cisternino. The Romanian lorry driver was arrested and charged with manslaughter.^[143]
• 1 October 2012 – United States – In California Amtrak Train 712, travelling from Oakland, CA to Bakersfield, CA, is hit by a lorry carrying cotton at a gated level crossing. Three of the train's five cars as well as the trailing GE P42DC locomotive, #94, derailed. No deaths, 50 injuries.
• 4 October 2012 – Indonesia – A commuter train from Bogor to Jakarta derailed in Cilebut station. The train used a former Tokyo Metro 05 series EMU. No injuries reported, but the third car was damaged following the accident.
• 23 October 2012 – Indonesia – Prambanan Express train derailed between Brambanan – Maguwo, the first car (women-only coach) was derailed and followed by another cars.
• 26 October 2012 – Philippines – Bicol Express train, bound for Ligao City was derailed a little past midnight in a flooded area of in Sariaya, Quezon, injuring eight of the 128 passengers rescued from the wreckage.^[144]
• 26 October 2012 – Slovakia – Two trains collided between railway stations Bratislava-Vinohrady and Bratislava-Main Station, leaving 23 injured. At 15:24 local time, passenger train Os2018 hit from astern another passenger train Os4618 that had stopped on the track. Preliminary investigation suspects the driver of the train Os2018 to cause the crash.^[145]
• 29 October 2012 – United States – Thirteen cars of a 57-car Paducah & Louisville (P&L) freight train derail near West Point, Kentucky. A tank car loaded with butadiene leaked and later caught fire while workers were repairing the track. No deaths, 5 injured. On 31 October, the train derailment exploded at 13:30 causing evacuations to be ordered in a 2 kilometre radius and an 8 kilometre radius to stay indoors. 3 were seriously burned in the explosion.
• 1 November 2012 – Ukraine – Passenger train Kyiv-Sevastopol derails near Zaporizhzhia. There were 34 passengers in the overturned carriage, including 12 children. There are no victims in the accident.^[146]
• 3 November 2012 – Australia – A Metro Trains Melbourne Comeng (train) collides with a lorry at the Abbots Road level crossing in Dandenong South on the Cranbourne line. The train is derailed and first car 306M ends up on its side. One passenger fatality due to a heart attack and 8 with minor injuries, and the driver was seriously injured. The lorry driver is uninjured.^[147]
• 4 November 2012 – United Kingdom – A passenger train from Edinburgh to Aberdeen derails at Inverkeilor, Angus with one minor injury reported. The cause is believed to be non-accidental.^[148]
• 5 November 2012 – Moldova – A wedding minibus collides with a passenger train Bender-Chișinău in Merenii Noi, Moldova, leaving four people dead and six injured.^[149]
• 9 November 2012 – Burma – 2012 Burma train crash – A train carrying liquid fuel and travelling from central Mandalay to Myitkyina in the north crashes and bursts into flames near Kantbalu in central Burma; at least 27 people die and more than 80 are injured.^[150]
• 15 November 2012 – United States – Midland train crash – Around 16.30 four people die and 16 others are injured when a Union Pacific train strikes a parade float headed to an event honouring wounded veterans in Midland, Texas.^[151][152]
• 17 November 2012 – Egypt – Manfalut railway accident – A school bus carrying about 60 pre-school children is hit by a train near Manfalut, 350 km (230 miles) south of the capital Cairo. At least 50 children and the bus driver die in the crash; more than a dozen people are injured. The Egyptian minister of transport, Mohamed Rashad Al Matini, resigns.^[153]
• 22 November 2012 – South Korea – A subway train rear ends another in Busan, South Korea, injuring 40.^[154]
• 25 November 2012 – Italy – A train hits a van at a level crossing near Rossano, Province of Cosenza, Calabria, killing at least six workers from Romania and Bulgaria.^[155][156]
• 30 November 2012 – United States – One of three daily trains that cross an old style swing bridge derails near Paulsboro, New Jersey, resulting in one car leaking vinyl chloride into the air. More than 40 people were treated for breathing problems in the immediate area. The bridge is said to have buckled, after having been rebuilt in 2010 after a similar 2009 crash.^[157]
• 17 December 2012 – United States – A BNSF intermodal train from Chicago derails when a landslide strikes it in Everett, Washington. This event is captured on video.^[158][159]
• 19 December 2012 – Germany – Around 20:20 CET, two freight trains tore through a broken-down bus and then derailed at a level crossing in Düsseldorf. There were no casualties, but the bus driver had to be treated for shock.^[160][161]

2013

• 10 January 2013 – Switzerland – 2013 Neuhausen am Rheinfall train collision – Two trains collided on the Rheinfall railway line, about 360 metres (1,180 ft) from the station at Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland. 27 people were injured.^[162]
• 15 January 2013 – Egypt – Badrashin railway accident – A passenger train derailed at Giza and collided with a freight train. 29 people died and 230 were injured.^[163][164]

• 15 January 2013 – Sweden – 2013 Saltsjöbanan train crash – A passenger train on the Saltsjöbanan overran a set of buffer stops and crashed into a block of flats at Stockholm.^[165] While it was first announced that a cleaner had driven the train without authority, further investigations revealed that she accidentally started the train that was parked in a depot without proper safety measures.^[166][167] She was seriously injured, no one else was injured.
• 21 January 2013 – Austria – Two Vienna S-Bahn trains packed with morning commuters collided on a single-track stretch of line between Hütteldorf and Penzing in Vienna's suburbs in eastern Austria, leaving 41 people injured, five of them seriously. Among the injured was the driver of one of the trains. Both trains were operating the Line S45 service, and both trains were made up of 4024-series rolling stock.^{[4][168][169][170]}
• 21 January 2013 – Portugal – An InterCity train from Lisbon to Porto collided with a Regional train that it was supposed to overtake, after both trains failed to stop before a signal on red at Alfarelos, leaving 25 people injured.^[171][172]
• 23 January 2013 – Slovakia – An intercity train IC507 from Bratislava to Košice hit a snowplow vehicle near Liptovský Mikuláš around 21.00 CET. The train driver died.^[173]
• 31 January 2013 – Australia – A passenger train overshot the railway line and collided with Cleveland railway station, severely damaging a toilet block and injuring 14 people.^{[174][175][176]} The train was removed from the station in the early hours of the following morning.^[177]
• 31 January 2013 – South Africa – Two passenger trains packed with school children and rush-hour commuters collided near Pretoria, South Africa, injuring up to 300 people, 28 of them seriously.^{[178][179][180]} A moving train slammed into the back of a stationary train near Kalafong station.^[181]
• 12 February 2013 – Japan – 15 people are injured when a Sanyo Electric Railway non-stop limited express train approaching Arai station collides with the rear end of a lorry and derails.^[182][183]
• 21 March 2013 – United Kingdom – 1 man dies after his car is struck by a High Speed Train at Athelney level Crossing in Somerset.^[184] It is suspected that the driver attempted to weave around the half-lane barriers.^[185]
• 16 April 2013 – France – At 08:30 a regional EMU travelling from Miramas to Marseille crashes at 30 kph into a crane-lorry on a level crossing. The crane driver is seriously injured and thirty two passengers have minor injuries.^[186]
• 26 April 2013 – United States – At a rural Buffalo & Pittsburgh Railroad crossing, in Butler County, Pennsylvania (near Pittsburgh), an Allegheny Valley Railroad freight train carrying asphalt (with 2 locomotives, 29 cars; traveling at the 25 mph limit) strikes an Alliance for Nonprofit Resources Inc. Butler Area Rural Transit Authority bus carrying impaired seniors and younger adults at the Maple Street intersection. It's unclear whether the bus stopped on or before the tracks; the train's brakes are believed to have been applied and the horn to have sounded. Two people are flown by helicopter to area trauma centres–one was in critical condition, and a 91-year-old woman dies later at Allegheny General Hospital. Ten others, including the bus driver, are also hospitalised.^[187]
• 30 April 2013 – Chile – A freight train derails near Collipulli and is then assaulted by men with fireweapons.^[188][189] Interior minister Andrés Chadwick says the Chilean Antiterrorist Law would be applied to those responsible for the attack.^[188]
• 2 May 2013 – Serbia – Two passenger trains collide in a tunnel between Novi Beograd and Zemun. The two trains running in the same direction, one from Belgrade to Novi Sad, strike another running from Belgrade to Šid at 13.30 CET. No fatalities are reported, many are injured.^[190][191]
• 3 May 2013 – Belgium – A freight train derails in Schellebelle near Ghent. Three wagons carrying acrylonitrile explode and catch fire. One person dies and 33 are injured from toxic fumes in local neighbourhoods.^[192]
• 17 May 2013 – United States – Fairfield train crash – Sixty people are injured (five critically) and rail traffic from New York to Boston is shut down after a Metro-North commuter train derails and plows into a second train in Fairfield, Connecticut.^[193]
• 20 May 2013 – New Zealand – A morning peak Tranz Metro EMU commuter train derails near central Wellington after part of the undercarriage comes loose, puncturing a hole in the carriage floor in the process. Four people are injured and thousands of commuters affected as services are cancelled and 26 trains are withdrawn from service out of safety concerns.^[194]
• 25 May 2013 – United States – Seven people are injured when two freight trains collide early in the morning at a rail intersection in southeast Missouri, causing a highway overpass to collapse (this occurred shortly after a bridge collapse in Washington state and the above-mentioned Fairfield, Connecticut commuter train collision). The accident occurs when a Union Pacific train T-bones a Burlington Northern Santa Fe train outside of Scott City, Missouri about 190 kilometres (120 mi) south of St. Louis, Missouri. One of the trains derails, sending rail cars smashing into an overpass support pillar. Five of the injured are in automobiles, and two are on the train. All but one of the injured are treated and released from the hospital. 37°12′35″N 89°44′45″W / 37.209636°N 89.745727°W / 37.209636; -89.745727^[195][196]
• 28 May 2013 – United States – A freight train derails outside Rosedale, Maryland, just outside Baltimore after colliding with a garbage truck. Fifteen cars from the CSX train Q409 derail and two catch fire. An explosion damages nearby buildings. Only the truck driver is injured. Those within a 20-block radius of the crash site are asked to evacuate. Hazardous materials crews are sent to the scene. The National Transportation Safety Board sends a team to investigate the accident.^[197]
• 4 June 2013 – Denmark – A morning train collides with a tractor close to a crossing near the city of Holbæk. The tractor driver dies and six train passengers are injured.^[198]
• 13 June 2013 – Argentina – 2013 Buenos Aires rail disaster – A passenger train travelling during the morning rush hour hits an empty stationary train, near Castelar station, in Buenos Aires Province, about 30 km (19 miles) from Buenos Aires. At least three people die and another 315 are injured.
• 20 June 2013 – Canada – A rail bridge in Calgary, Alberta, weakened by recent flooding, collapses with 4 empty tank cars hanging just above the still swollen Bow River. No one is injured, and the cars are removed safely.

• 6 July 2013 – Canada – Lac-Mégantic derailment – A freight train containing 72 tank cars of crude oil runs away while unattended and derails in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec. Several cars explode, resulting in 42 confirmed dead and 5 missing and presumed dead; over 30 buildings in the town's centre, roughly half of the downtown area, are destroyed.
• 6 July 2013 – Pakistan – At least 14 people die and one person is injured when a rickshaw collides with a train near Shekhupura, Punjab, at a level crossing.^[199]
• 7 July 2013 – Russia – Krylovskaya derailment – 70 are injured in a train from Novosibirsk to Sochi.

• 12 July 2013 – France – Brétigny-sur-Orge – A passenger train with 385 passengers is derailed at speed by a track defect soon after leaving Paris, and smashes into a station platform. Six are confirmed dead and almost 200 are injured.^[200]
• 12 July 2013 – France – Bessines-sur-Gartempe – A train carrying nuclear waste derails and travels about 90 m (300 ft) before coming to a stop. It is reported that the Le Populaire du Centre newspaper received a message from an unknown anti-nuclear group taking responsibility for the Areva train derailment, although its authenticity was not confirmed.^[201]
• 21 July 2013 – United Kingdom – Two passenger trains collide at Norwich, injuring eight people.^[202]

• 24 July 2013 – Spain – Santiago de Compostela derailment – A high-speed train from Madrid to Ferrol, travelling at 190 km/h, well above the speed limit of 80 km/h,^[203] derails on a curve in Santiago de Compostela; at least 79 passengers die and 140 are injured.^[204]
• 25 July 2013 – Pakistan – A passenger train travelling from Lahore to Rawalpindi overshoots and runs aground on a closed track in Gujranwala, Punjab; at least 2 people die and many are injured.^[205]

• 29 July 2013 – Switzerland – Granges-près-Marnand train crash – Two passenger trains collide between the towns of Moudon and Payerne, at Granges-pres-Marnand. One person dies and more than 40 are injured.^[206]
• 5 August 2013 – United States – More than 20 cars of Union Pacific train derail in Louisiana near Lawtell.^[207]
• 19 August 2013 – India – A high-speed Rajya Rani Express crashes into a crowd of Hindu pilgrims crossing the tracks at a remote station in the Saharsa District east India; 37 people die, more are injured.
• 25 August 2013 – Mexico – A cargo train ridden by Central American migrants heading to the U.S. derails in a remote region of southern Mexico in the Tabasco state; at least five die, at least 35 are injured. A number of people are trapped.^[208]
• 2 September 2013 – Netherlands – The operator of a local train of Dutch Railways ignored a red light and was traveling way beyond the speed limit. The Automatic Train Control system didn't work. Therefore, the train severely damaged a turnout and ended up on the wrong track almost colliding with an intercity train at high speed. The train operators of both trains activated the brake systems just in time, thus avoiding a collision.^[209][210]
• 16 September 2013 – United States – A freight train derails near Seville, Illinois when a bridge over the Spoon River collapses under it.^[211]

• 18 September 2013 – Canada – Ottawa bus-train crash – An OC Transpo double decker bus collides with a Via Rail train in the Ottawa, Ontario suburb of Barrhaven near Fallowfield Station; at least six bus passengers including the driver die. No one on board the train dies.^[212]
• 19 September 2013 – United States – A CSX train derails in Southampton County, Virginia injuring two engineers and starting a fire.^[213]
• 30 September 2013 – United States – An out-of-service Chicago Transit Authority train crashes head-on into a stopped train in Forest Park, Illinois, injuring 33 people.^[214]
• 11 October 2013 – United States – A truck carrying logs collides with a Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad train carrying 63 people in Randolph County, West Virginia. The driver of the truck dies, and 23 on the train are injured, six of them seriously.^[215]
• 15 October 2013 – United Kingdom – A freight train derails and runs for four miles until it is stopped at Gloucester. An investigation finds the cause to be poor track condition and an inadequate maintenance regime.^[216]
• 19 October 2013 – Canada – A train with 13 cars carrying crude oil and liquefied petroleum gas derails west of Edmonton, Alberta. Local residents are evacuated in Gainford, Alberta located some 85 km (53 miles) from the capital. A fire results and no one was injured.^[217]
• 19 October 2013 – Argentina – At least 80 people are injured when a train crashes into a walk in the center of Buenos Aires.^[218]
• 24 October 2013 – United States – One person dies when four freight cars loaded with gravel derail at the SunRail station on State Road 46 in Sanford, Florida.^[219]
• 31 October 2013 – Kenya – At least eleven people died and thirty-four people are injured in Nairobi when a passenger train runs into bus at a high rate of speed. Lack of proper safety measures at a railway crossing is listed as a possible cause.^[220]
• 8 November 2013 – United States – A 90-car freight train carrying crude oil from the Bakken shale patch in North Dakota (possibly similar to the type carried in the July 2013 Lac-Mégantic derailment in Quebec, Canada), from Amory, Mississippi to a refinery in Walnut Hill, Florida, derails and explodes in the morning in Pickens County, Alabama (west AL); the flames, which shot upward 300 feet high, were left to burn themselves out, which may take up to 24 hours. There were no fatalities or injuries.^[221]
• 20 November 2013 – United Kingdom – A passenger train collides with the buffers at Chester railway station, Cheshire. One passenger is injured.^[222]
• 30 November 2013 – United States – Southwestern Railroad (New Mexico) train derails outside Silver City, New Mexico, resulting in the death of the conductor Steven "Steve" Crose, 60, engineer Donald "D.A." White, 38, and ride-along passenger Ann Thompson, 50. The train is leaving a mine operated by Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold on a 6% slope when it experiences braking failure. Traveling out of control for miles, the locomotive, which contains all three occupants, eventually leaves the track on a curve completely disconnecting from the eight cars heavily loaded with magnetite and slides into an arroyo (creek). All three occupants of the locomotive are killed immediately on impact and must be extricated from the badly damaged locomotive by emergency responders. The eight freight cars continue on the track a short distance before stopping. It is originally reported that all three occupants are male employees,^[223] but a correction later specifies that the female ride-along passenger was not an employee.^[224]

• 1 December 2013 – United States – Derailment at Spuyten Duyvil, the Bronx, New York City – The engineer of a Metro-North Railroad passenger train from Poughkeepsie to Grand Central Station falls asleep with the train at full throttle. It enters a 30 mph (48 km/h) curve just before Spuyten Duyvil station at 82 mph (132 km/h) and derails, killing 4 and injuring 63. It is the first Metro-North accident with passenger fatalities.^[225] The engineer's fatigue was caused by severe, undiagnosed sleep apnea in combination with a recent shift change.^[226]
• 5 December 2013 – United States – A runaway Canadian National ore train rear-ends an ore train in Two Harbors, Minnesota. Two crew members jumped clear and two crew members were hospitalized when they stayed in a trailing locomotive.
• 9 December 2013 – Indonesia – A commuter train bound for Tanah Abang from Maja (Train number KA 1131, using Tokyo Metro 7000 series set 7021) collides with a truck loaded with oil, which explodes. Five people die; another is seriously injured. The accident is caused by the truck driver attempting cross the grade crossing shortly before being hit by an oncoming train from Pondok Ranji. The accident occurred at Grade Crossing number 57 at the S curve between Kebayoran and Pondok Ranji Station. The train involved is immediately written off because of major damage to car 7121 (7221 received minor damage)^{[227][228][229][230]}
• 22 December 2013 – Kenya – A cargo train derailed in the Nairobi slum of Kibera several people are injured.^[231][232]
• 27 December 2013 – Canada – Seven rail cars of a CN freight train derailed while passing through the Wainwright Rail Yard at low speed. Three empty grain cars came completely off the tracks; the other four remained upright, with some damage to an auto rack car. No damage was apparent to an overpass that the train was passing under.^[233]
• 30 December 2013 – United States – Casselton train derailment – Several grain cars from a westbound train derail and strike an eastbound train carrying crude oil on an adjoining track near Casselton, North Dakota. Several crude oil cars explode, resulting in large clouds of black smoke which forced an evacuation of the area. No casualties were reported.^[234]

2014

• 7 January 2014 – Canada – A CN train carrying crude oil and propane derails near Plaster Rock, New Brunswick. The resulting fire forces an evacuation of the area within a two-kilometre radius. No injuries are reported.^[235][236]
• 7 January 2014 – United States– A CTA Yellow Line passenger train derails in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The two-car train derailed in the early afternoon, briefly disrupting late afternoon rush hour traffic. No injuries were reported.^[237]
• 11 January 2014 – Canada– A CP train carrying metallurgic coal derails in Burnaby. Seven cars of a 157 car train derail and spill coal into a fish-bearing stream. ^[238]
• 13 January 2014 – United States– A BNSF train derails near Kent, Washington after a landslide. The landslide also disrupted Amtrak and Sound Transit passenger rail service.^[239]
• 15 January 2014 – Netherlands– A passenger train from Dutch Railways derails near the central station of Hilversum. The train was carrying approx. 550 passengers. No injuries were reported.^[240]
• 17 January 2014 – United States – A BNSF train hauling fruits, vegetables and empty intermodal cars derails near Williston, North Dakota. The derailment also disrupted Amtrak passenger rail service between Minot, North Dakota and Havre, Montana. No injuries were reported.^[241]
• 17 January 2014 – United States – A CSX train carrying coal derails near Dunnellon, Florida. Twelve cars of the 100-car train derailed in a rural area. The train was transporting the coal to the Duke Energy Crystal River Energy Complex. No injuries were reported.^[242]
• 19 January 2014 – United States – A Union Pacific train carrying coal derails near Caledonia, Wisconsin. Nineteen cars of the 135-car train derailed. The cause is believed to be cracked rails caused by unusually cold winter conditions. No injuries were reported.^[243]
• 20 January 2014 – United States – A CSX train carrying crude oil derails in Philladelphia, Pennsylvania. Seven cars of a 101-car train derailed on a bridge over the Schuylkill Expressway, causing the road to be shut down for brief periods of time as emergency crews drained the tankers. No injuries were reported.^[244]
• 21 January 2014 – Netherlands – An empty, out-of-service tram/LRT vehicle of HTM's Randstadrail service crashed into an in-service tram/LRT Randstadrail vehicle at a tram stop. 4 passengers were injured.^[245]
• 22 January 2014 – United States – A BNSF train transporting 18 empty intermodal rail cars derails inside the Lindenwood Yard in St. Louis, Missouri. No injuries were reported and the derailment was cleared the same day.^[246]
• 23 January 2014 – United States – A BNSF train carrying corn derails near Ross, North Dakota. The derailment of eleven cars disrupted transportation of crude oil from the Bakken oil formation to ports in Montana. No injuries were reported.^[247]
• 25 January 2014 – United States – A Union Pacific freight train derails near Morrow, Louisiana. No injuries were reported, and no chemical or hazardous materials were reported as spilled.^[248]
• 27 January 2014 – Canada – A CN train hauling liquefied petroleum gas, clay, and automobiles derails near the Saint-Basile community of Edmunston, New Brunswick. Five cars left the tracks, three carrying automobiles, and one each of LPG and clay. No injuries were reported.^[249]
• 27 January 2014 – United States – A Union Pacific train carrying scrap paper derails near Pollard Flat, California. Only one box car in the four-car train was carrying cargo, with no cargo spillage. The derailment caused disruption to Amtrak passenger rail service, resulting in riders being transported via buses between Oregon and California.^[250]
• 28 January 2014 – United States – A CN train carrying plastic pellets derails near Mundelein, Illinois. One set of wheels on a hopper in a 110-car train derailed on a single lane track, resulting in disruptions of service over two days for several passenger and freight services as trains needed to be rerouted.^[251]
• 28 January 2014 – United States – A CSX train carrying phosphoric acid derails near McDavid, Florida. 23 of the 69 cars derailed, resulting in the destruction of the tracks and bridge over Fletcher Creek, and chemicals leaking into the water. No injuries were reported.^[252]
• 30 January 2014 – United States – A NS train transporting 179 empty coal cars derailed near Jewell Ridge, Virginia. No injuries were reported, and the accident was cleared on the same day.^[253]
• 31 January 2014 – United States – A CN train carrying crude oil, methane and liquid fertilizer derails near New Augusta, Mississippi. 18 to 24 cars of the 85-car train derailed and began leaking. The derailment occurred in a rural area, but resulted in 12 families being evacuated and four lanes of U.S. 98 closed as emergency responders began to clean up the spill. No injuries were reported.^[254]
• 31 January 2014 – Ukraine – 2014 Ukraine train bus collision
• 8 February 2014 – France – A train derails between Digne-les-Bains and Nice when it is hit by a rock that rolled down the mountainside. Two people die and seven are injured.^[255]
• 15 February 2014 – Japan – Two commuter trains, operating in heavy snow and limited vision, bound for Yokohama Motomachi, collide. A subsequent two-car train derails in Motosumiyoshi Station, Tokyu Toyoko Line, Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture. 19 persons are injured.^[256]
• 17 March 2014 – Netherlands – A passenger train from Syntus crashes into the trailer of a truck that got stuck at a railroad crossing near the town of Almen. The truck driver escapes just in time. 3 train passengers are injured. The train was carrying 100 people.^[257]
• 17 March 2014 – Netherlands – A tram/LRT vehicle of HTM's Randstadrail service crashes into a city tram on an intersection near the city border with Delft. 20 people are injured, one of them severely.^[258]
• 24 March 2014 – United States – A train in Chicago, Illinois overruns the buffers and goes up the escalator at O'Hare International Airport, injuring 32 people.^[259]
• 5 April 2014 – Indonesia – Tasikmalaya derailment
• 13 April 2014 – China – 15 people are sent to hospital after a passenger train derails in Northeast China's Heilongjiang province.^[260]
• 16 April 2014 – Estonia – A truck crashes into Elron's train Stadler Flirt at Raasiku railway crossing. The train was heading from Tallinn to Tartu. Truck driver and one passenger are killed, 12 people are injured.^[261]
• 22 April 2014 – Democratic Republic of the Congo – 2014 Katanga train derailment with 48+ fatalities.
• 30 April 2014 – United States – CSX derailment: 15 tankers carrying crude oil derail and catch fire in Lynchburg, Virginia, striking fears of water contamination in the local area and beyond.^[262]
• 1 May 2014 – United States – CSX coal train derailed three locomotives and 10 cars in Bowie, MD.^[263]
• 1 May 2014 – India – 2014 Chennai train bombing with 1 fatality and 9 injuries.^[264]

• 2 May 2014 – South Korea – a Seoul Metro train collides with another train in a mechanic problem stopping at Sangwangsimni Station, causing more than 200 injuries.^[265]
• 4, May 2014 – India – a train traveling the Konkan Railway derails near Nidi railway station in Maharashtra, killing at least 18 and injuring 124.^[266]
• 10 May 2014 – United States – a train traveling in Colorado derails and spills 6,500 US gallons (25,000 l; 5,400 imp gal) of oil west of LaSalle, Colorado.^[267]
• 20 May 2014 – Russia – A freight train derails near Naro-Fominsk and fouls an adjacent line. A passenger train runs into it, killing nine and injuring around 50 people.^[268]
• 26 May 2014 – India – Gorakhpur bound Gorakhdham Express rams into a stationary goods train near Khalilabad station in Sant Kabir Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh killing at least 25 and injuring over 50.^[269]
• 25 June 2014 – India – Dibrugarh Rajdhani Express (12236) derails near Bihar's Chapra town, four die and eight are injured.^[270]
• 3 July 2014 – United States – A Norfolk Southern Railway train derails in Sewickley, PA.
• 4 July 2014 – United States – 19 cars of a Montana Rail Link train, carrying manufactured plane parts, soybeans, and alcohol from Kansas City, Kansas to Renton, Washington, derail. 3 airplane fuselages spill into a local river. No injuries are reported, and the nearby river pass and fishing gorge is closed to remove debris.^[271]
• 12 July 2014, – Bulgaria – A long distance passenger train derails at Kaloyanovets station, killing the driver and injuring 14 others. The train passed through turnouts set to diverging track at 104 km/h, 2.5 times over the limit of 40 km/h. EBICAB-700 protection system was available but wasn't turned on and the driver was not trained to use it.^[272][273]
• 15 July 2014 – Russia – A passenger train derails between Slavyansky Bulvar and Park Pobedy stations on the Moscow Metro. Twenty-one people die and over 150 are injured.^[274]
• 17 July 2014 – France – A TGV train collides with a regional TER train near Denguin in south western France. Several casualties are reported.^[275]

• 2 August 2014 – Germany – A EuroCity express train of Deutsche Bahn collides with a freight train in the central station of Mannheim. 45 persons are hurt, five of which sustain severe injuries.^[276]

• 13 August 2014 – Switzerland – A Rhaetian Railway passenger train is struck by a landslide and derails at Tiefencastel. Eleven people are injured.^[277]
• 17 August 2014 – United States – two Union Pacific locomotives hit head on, in Hoxie, Arkansas, killing two crewmen and injuring two others. Several cars derail, resulting in a fire that causes the evacuation of 500 residents.^[278]
• 30 September 2014 – India – the Lucknow–Barauni Express is rear-ended near Gorakhpur by the following train, the Krishak Express, which should have stopped at a red signal. At least 12 die and 46 are injured, 12 critically.^[279]
• 5 October 2014 – United States – a Union Pacific freight train slams into a lowboy trailer in Mer Rouge, LA, seriously injuring both railroad crew and causing two engines along with 17 cars to derail. 50 homes are evacuated for about two hours due to the leakage of argon gas from the tank car.
• 7 October 2014 – Canada – A CN train hauling dangerous goods derails near Clair, Saskatchewan. Twenty six of the 100 rail cars derail, two of which leaki petroleum distillate and catch fire. The approximately 50 residences of Clair and surrounding farms are evacuated and Highway 5 is shut down.^[280]
• 16 October 2014 – United States – An excursion train of the Arkansas-Missouri Railroad stalls on the mainline near West Fork, Arkansas; the crew of the locomotive sent to help the train does not have the precise location of the stalled train and runs into the stalled train's locomotive after rounding a curve. 44 people are injured in the collision, 5 critically.^[281][282] An NTSB team was dispatched to investigate.^[283]
• 28 October 2014 – United States – 24 were injured when an Amtrak train collided with a semi truck on U.S. Route 421.^[284]
• 22 November 2014 – Kazhakstan – A truck driver dies after two trains hit a the truck at a level crossing. Four empty freight cars were derailed. The event was caught on video from a CCTV camera. The CCTV footage showed that the driver of the truck was unable to stop in time due to icy road conditions.^[285]

2015

• 7 January – Canada – A CN freight train hauling 114 cars heading east from Edmonton, Alberta to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan derailed between the community of Jarrow, Alberta and village of Irma. Twenty-three cars derailed, of which one began leaking a non-dangerous liquid adhesive. The ensuing cleanup resulted in the temporary closure of a section of Highway 14.^[286]

• 14 January – United States – A Reuters online news story article, from Austin, Texas, appearing on the MSN News webpage, on Wednesday, January 14, 2015, stated that a Texas prison bus carrying 15 people was hit by a train. At least ten people were killed near Odessa, Texas, according to a CBS affiliate and the Odessa American newspaper. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice bus with 12 inmates and three officers was traveling from Abilene, Texas to El Paso, Texas. The Medical Center Hospital in Odessa is treating five patients, according to a hospital spokeswoman. No further information on injuries or deaths or further victims was provided by the hospital or the Department.^[287]

• 3 February – United States – A Metro-North Railroad train strikes one car at a crossing and catches on fire, killing six people.^[288]

• 13 February – India – Anekal derailment of Intercity Express in the Bangalore of Karnataka, India killing ten and injuring one-fifty more.^[289][290]

• 16 February – Canada – A CN freight train transporting crude oil derailed 80 km south of Timmins, Ontario. 29 of 100 cars derailed, and seven crude oil tank cars caught fire. There were no injuries and the burning oil was contained to the area. ^[291]

• 16 February – United States – A CSX freight train derails in West Virginia. At least 7 tank cars catch fire, with over 60 people evacuated from their homes nearby.^[292]

• 20 February – Switzerland – Rafz train crash: an S-Bahn train and an Interregio express train collide at Rafz.^[293]

• 24 February – United States – Oxnard train derailment: a Metrolink train hit a road vehicle at Oxnard, California.^[294] The train engineer died and 29 others were injured.

• 25 February – United States – A CN freight train traveling from Winnepeg, Manitoba to Superior, Wisconsin derailed 25 miles northwest of Duluth, Minnesota. Thirteen of the 107 cars in the consist, some of which contained naphthalene, left the track without breaching. No injuries reported.^[295][296]

• 5 March – United States – A BNSF oil train derails in a rural area near Galena, Illinois. Twenty-one of the 105 cars, containing Bakken formation crude oil, leave the track and catch fire, which continues to burn. No injuries are reported.^[297]

• 6 March – Netherlands – A passenger train runs into the rear of a freight train between Tilburg Universiteit and Tilburg stations. A few passengers suffer slight injuries.^[298]

• 7 March – Canada – A CN freight train derailed near the small Northern Ontario village of Gogama, Ontario. Forty of 100 cars derailed, with 5 entering the Makami River and 7 carrying crude oil catching fire and burning for several days. It is the second CN derailment in the area in the past month. ^[299]
• 7 March – United Kingdom – A charter train overran a signal at Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire and came to a stop foul of a junction, where an express train had passed through a minute earlier. As a direct result of the incident, West Coast Railway Company were banned from accessing all rail lines in the United Kingdom as of 3 April 2015.^[300]

• 9 March – United States – An Amtrak passenger train collides with a tractor trailer in Halifax, North Carolina. No life-threatening injuries were reported. The accident was caught on video.^[301]

• 10 March – Vietnam – A passenger train collides with a vehicle on a level crossing in Hai Lang District and is derailed. The train driver is killed and four people were seriously injured.^[302]

• 12 March – Netherlands – A fire occurs on a passenger train at Abcoude, Utrecht. All on board are evacuated.^[303] Twenty-four people are taken to hospital.^[304]

• 20 March – India – 15 dead, 150 people injured as Dehradun-Varanasi Janta Express derails in Uttar Pradesh's Rae Bareli.^[305]

• 26 March – Thailand– A passenger train runs into the rear of another in Phachi District. Fifty two people are injured in the collision,^[306] three seriously.^[307]

• 28 March – United States– A Metrolink train collided with two cars, causing the 2015 Los Angeles train crash. There are at least 21 injuries.^[308]

• 31 March – Australia– A freight train runs into the rear of another at Keswick, Adelaide, South Australia. At least one of the trains is derailed and two level crossings are blocked.^[309]

• 10 April – Canada– A freight train derails north east of Calgary, Alberta.^[310]

• 27 April – United States – Several well cars of a Union Pacific train derailed off a bridge near Baton Rouge, Louisiana during a severe storm. The event was caught on tape from a car's dashcam.

• 28 April – South Africa – Two passenger trains are in collision at Denver station, near Johannesburg. One person is killed and about 240 are injured.^[311]

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