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Five people are killed in the first major accident for British Railways. [10] September 2 – United States – Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Two Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company trains chartered by the National Model Railroad Association collided head on killing 10 and injuring 47. Poor visibility and a lack of formal dispatching practices ...
1953 Pennsylvania Railroad train wreck, Washington, D.C.; 0 killed but 44 injured; served as inspiration for the ending of Silver Streak (film) 1953 New York Central Railroad Accident, Conneaut, Ohio; 21 killed plus 49 injured. The second of only two U.S. rail disasters to involve four trains [160]
The Winchester and Potomac Railroad (W&P) was a railroad in the southern United States, which ran from Winchester, Virginia, to Harpers Ferry, West Virginia (Virginia until 1863), on the Potomac River, at a junction with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O). [1]
One source says 30 people were killed and 70 injured; [1] another says 17 killed and 120 injured. [2] January 10 – United States – The New York Central Railroad's Southwest Limited from St. Louis to Cleveland, instead of slowing to pick up a train order at Wellington, Ohio, approached too fast in the fog and derailed. The signal tower was ...
Consequently, trains 267 and 30 collided at 4:26 a.m. on a foggy Sunday morning, 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Canaan station; 25 or 26 people were killed and about 40 injured. [ 98 ] [ 101 ] September 19 – Mexico – Encarnación : an express passenger train for El Paso, Texas , collided with a freight train that should have waited for it; about ...
A Pennsylvania Railroad I1 similar to the freight train involved in the accident A Wilmington and Western Doodlebug railcar similar to the one involved. The "doodlebug" concerned, No. 4648, a PRR class GEW275, was a self-propelled, gas-electric rail car that used gasoline to generate electricity to power its traction motors; it was one of 6 built in 1928 by Pullman/Electro-Motive.
January 4 – Turkey – An accident near Ankara killed 16 people. [93] [89] January 9 – Turkey – A rear-end collision between two commuter trains near Ankara killed 30 people and injured about 100. [93] [89] January 26 – Bangladesh – Near Chuadanga, a train derailed and overturned, killing at least 70 and injuring at least 300. [89]
Thirteen people are killed and 30 are injured. Crash scene after the Staplehurst accident 9 June – United Kingdom – Staplehurst rail crash – A South Eastern Railway boat train is derailed on a bridge over the River Beult at Staplehurst, Kent after track workers misread a timetable and remove a rail. Ten people are killed, and 49 are injured.