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Rose-painting, rosemaling, rosemåling or rosmålning is a Scandinavian decorative folk painting that flourished from the 1700s to the mid-1800s, particularly in Norway. In Sweden, rose-painting began to be called dalmålning, c. 1901, for the region Dalecarlia where it had been most popular and kurbits, in the 1920s, for a characteristic trait ...
The Nidareid train disaster was a train collision on 18 September 1921 on the Trondhjem–Støren Line railway line, between the stations of Marienborg and Skansen in Trondheim, Norway. The accident occurred the day after the inauguration of the new line to Trondheim, Dovre Line , and one of the trains involved was the inaugural train returning ...
Train collisions in Norway (6 P) ... January 2001 tram accident; S. Strømsveien tram fire This page was last edited on 15 August 2020, at 18:43 (UTC) ...
On 3 May 2010, the preliminary accident report was submitted by the Norwegian Accident Investigation Board. It stated that were confusions between train managers at Alnabru which triggered the crash. [9] It was a "misunderstanding between the shunter and another train manager" which caused the empty freight cars to roll.
February 22 – Norway – Tretten train disaster: A passenger train from Oslo collided head-on with an express train from Trondheim, killing 27 people. February 28 – United Kingdom – Moorgate tube crash : A driver fails to stop a London Underground train at Moorgate station and continued into the dead-end tunnel beyond, killing 43 people.
January 3 – India – Ghatnandur train crash: 18 people died in a collision of two trains at Ghatnandur in Maharashtra [40] January 31 – Australia – Waterfall rail accident: The driver of a southbound passenger train suffered a heart attack and died; the train then sped out of control and derailed on a curve, overturning several cars and killing six passengers.
A person died when they were hanging out of a moving train while attempting to create graffiti and were crushed to death. [19] 25 June 1993: United States Amtrak train Died Skate or SK8 of CBS crew was struck by an Amtrak train while painting a freight in Los Angeles. [20] 26 April 1995: Australia Collision with bridge Died 14
With 27 killed, including seven children under 16, [3] and 25 injured, it was the worst train crash in Norwegian peacetime history. [4] One accident victim was from the United States [5] while the rest were Norwegians, including the politician Tønnes Andenæs. Altogether there were around 800 passengers on the two 12-car trains.