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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.
August 22 – United States – Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway train 19 The Chief derails at 89 miles per hour (143 km/h) at Lomax, Illinois, resulting in four deaths and 41 injured. The derailment was caused by a broken equalising beam on the only heavyweight car in the train. [59]
24 December – United Kingdom – Sonning Cutting railway accident – a Great Western Railway Paddington to Bristol train including goods wagons and open passenger wagons runs into a landslide in a cutting. Nine passengers are killed and sixteen are injured, leading to calls for better protection for passengers.
Railway accident deaths in Europe (14 C, 3 P) S. Suicides by train (87 P) Pages in category "Railway accident deaths" The following 11 pages are in this category, out ...
A new lawsuit blames the 2023 East Palestine train derailment for the deaths of seven people. ... the first wrongful death claims in connection to the disaster. ... Sherrod Brown introduced the ...
August 2 - United States - Albany Southern Railway - A young woman and a small boy were killed in a collision at Rossman's Station (near Albany, NY). Marjorie Hoysradt, 20, and Edward Doyle, 5, were among the "thousands of people" who had taken the railway's cars to enjoy a summer outing at Electric Park (on Kinderhook Lake in Niverville, NY).
A federal jury on Monday said BNSF Railway contributed to the deaths of two people who were exposed to asbestos decades ago when tainted mining material was shipped through a Montana town where ...