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Deadliest accident on New York's elevated railways [64] 1905 Baker Bridge train wreck, Lincoln, Massachusetts; 17 killed plus 33 injured. Led RR commission to encourage railroads and street railways where trains or cars followed each other in quick succession to implement a signalling block system [65]
New York City subway fire. United States – 2020 New York City Subway fire: A fire on the 2 train at 110th Street station on the Lenox Avenue Line killed the train operator and injured 16 others. United States – In DeLand, Florida, an Amtrak Auto Train derailed when 8 train cars tipped over. One person was injured.
Railroad cars; Railway couplings. Couplers by country; Coupler conversion; ... This is the list of rail accident lists. Lists. By year. Before 1880; 1880–1889;
14 November – United States – A Norfolk Southern freight train collided with a Toyota Camry in Morrisville, North Carolina, near Cary, killing the two elderly passengers of the vehicle. [314] 17 November – Pakistan – Aab-e-Gum derailment - The Jaffar Express derailed at Aab-e-Gum, killing 20 people and injuring 96.
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.
2006. June 14, 2006 – The Kismet Train Collision - Two BNSF Railway freight trains collide head-on in Madera, California, due to one of the trains running a red signal, injuring 5 people. One of the train's crew members, the one that ran the red, is suspected to be high on cocaine. There was a camera on board one of the locomotives involved ...
The worst accident was the Quintinshill rail disaster in Scotland in 1915 with 226 dead and 246 injured. [a] Second worst, and the worst in England, was the 1952 Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash, which killed 112 people and injured 340. [1] The death toll from the 1957 Lewisham rail crash was 90; for the 1889 Armagh rail disaster (the worst in ...
The Graniteville train crash was an American rail disaster that occurred on January 6, 2005, in Graniteville, South Carolina. At roughly 2:40 am EST, two Norfolk Southern trains collided near the Avondale Mills plant in Graniteville. [1] Nine people were killed and over 250 people were treated for toxic chlorine exposure.