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1981 Chengdu-Kunming rail crash: Ganluo County, China: 358 20 August 1995 Firozabad rail disaster: Firozabad, Uttar Pradesh, India 338 29 April 1997 Rongjiawan train disaster: Rongjiawan, Hunan, China 320 18 February 2004 Nishapur train disaster: Iran: 307 4 January 1990 Sukkur rail disaster: Sangi, Sindh, Pakistan: 300 7 January 1918 Changsha ...
The 2004 Sri Lanka tsunami train wreck is the largest single rail disaster in world history by death toll, with 1,000 fatalities or more. It occurred when a crowded passenger train (No 50, Matara Express) was destroyed on a coastal railway in Sri Lanka by a tsunami that followed the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. The tsunami subsequently caused ...
On 3 June 1998, part of an ICE 1 train on the Hannover–Hamburg railway near Eschede in Lower Saxony, Germany derailed and crashed into an overpass that crossed the railroad, which then collapsed onto the train. 101 people were killed and at least 88 were injured, making it the second-deadliest railway disaster in German history after the 1939 Genthin rail disaster, and the world's worst ever ...
The Balvano train disaster was the deadliest railway accident in Italian history and one of the worst railway disasters ever. [1] [2] It occurred on the night between 2–3 March 1944 in Balvano, Basilicata. 517 people in a steam-hauled, coal-burning freight train (mostly stowaways) died of carbon monoxide poisoning during a protracted stall in a tunnel.
Officially the deadliest U.S. rail disaster to date [98] [99] 1918 Malbone Street Wreck, New York City; 95-100 killed plus 100+ injured. Remains the deadliest rail disaster in the History of New York state and the New York City Subway [100] [101] 1919 New York Central collision, Byron, New York; 22 killed [102] [103]
The Quintinshill rail disaster was a multi-train rail crash which occurred on 22 May 1915 outside the Quintinshill signal box near Gretna Green in Dumfriesshire, Scotland.It resulted in the deaths of over 200 people and remains the worst rail disaster in British history.
Australia Camp Mountain train disaster, 1947: 16 killed; Japan HachikÅ Line derailment, February 1947: 184 killed: the worst railway accident to occur in Japan; United Kingdom Sutton Coldfield train disaster, 1955: 17 killed; United Kingdom Morpeth rail crashes, 1969, 1984, 1994: a total of 6 killed in three separate accidents