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Map of the Death Railway. A railway route between Burma and Thailand, crossing Three Pagodas Pass and following the valley of the Khwae Noi river in Thailand, had been surveyed by the British government of Burma as early as 1885, but the proposed course of the line – through hilly jungle terrain divided by many rivers – was considered too difficult to undertake.
1833 Hightstown rail accident, Hightstown, New Jersey; two killed plus 15 injured.Earliest recorded train accident involving the death of passengers. [1] [2]1837 Suffolk head-on collision, Suffolk, Virginia; 3 killed plus dozens injured.
4 March – United States – A train carrying emigrants near Mount Union, Pennsylvania, is rear-ended by a mail train; boilers rupture, scalding seven people to death and having the highest death toll in the United States in that time. The engineer of the mail train was reportedly asleep when the collision occurred.
A Brightline train struck and killed a woman north of Hypoluxo Road around 5:40 p.m. Police said the woman was connected to a suspected shoplifting incident at the nearby K-Mart shortly before ...
Around 4:00am on August 23, 1987, the bodies of 16-year-old Don Henry and 17-year-old Kevin Ives were hit by a freight train in the town of Alexander, Arkansas, United States, as they were lying on the tracks. The locomotive engineer engaged the brakes while blowing the horn, but the train could not stop in time and rolled over the bodies.
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The train collision took place at about 8:20 a.m. on April 13 near U.S. Highway 20 at milepost 17. Idaho State Police continued to investigate the incident as of Tuesday. Funeral arrangements were ...
The country's worst train accident with 95 deaths and 150 injuries. November 16 – France – Due to human error, a Micheline passenger train to Chartres is signaled to leave La Roche-sur-Yon while a freight is still approaching on the single track. The trains crash head-on; 29 are killed and another 22 injured. [107] [108]