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This sortable table lists railway accidents in the Republic of Ireland, and before its formation accidents in the provinces of Leinster, Munster and Connacht, plus the counties of Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan. It is currently limited to accidents where at least one train occupant was killed.
Rakaia railway accident March 11 – New Zealand – Rakaia railway accident Two excursion trains returning from Ashburton to Christchurch collided when the second train rear-ended the first; four passengers were killed and 22 injured. The accident led to the fitting of air brakes to rolling stock and improved signalling.
1968 Chicago riots - One of the over 100 riots that erupted nationwide after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Most of the Chicago rioting occurred on the West Side and was the second deadliest (11 fatalities, versus 13 in the Washington D.C. riots) of the riots in the nation after King's death. 11 500 August 23–28, 1968 Political
It would remain the worst train crash in New South Wales history for just under 51 years until the Granville rail disaster of 1977 which left 84 people dead in Australia's worst rail disaster. September 23 – Japan – A Tokyo- Shimonoseki limited express derails at Hataga river bridge in eastern Hiroshima , in an incident caused by heavy rain ...
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway: PCC&St.L Railroad: 1890–1917 Chicago and Northern Pacific Railroad: CTT 1890–1897 Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway: NYC 1893–1930 1889–1893 Chicago and Great Western Railroad: C&NP 1889–1890 Chicago, Santa Fe and California Railway: AT&SF 1888–1890 Wabash ...
October 1 – Greece – Two trains carrying people returning to Athens after voting in their home towns in a constitutional referendum collided at Corinth, killing 34 people and injuring 150, resulting as the deadliest rail accident in Greece of all time before the Tempi train crash in 2023 and the worst Greek rail accident of the 20th century ...
A collision between two commuter trains in Chicago occurred during the cloudy morning rush hour on October 30, 1972, and was the worst such crash in Chicago's history. Illinois Central Gulf Train 416, made up of newly purchased Highliners , overshot the 27th Street station on what is now the Metra Electric Line , and the engineer asked and ...