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The train had left Granville on time at 08:45, but was several minutes late as it approached its Montparnasse terminus with 131 passengers on board. In an effort to make up lost time, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] the train approached the station faster than usual, at a speed of 40–60 km/h (25–37 mph), and when the driver attempted to apply the Westinghouse ...
Fitzsimmons continued working for the PRR until 1953, but never operated a train again. He ldied in 1976 at age 83, 25 years after the wreck. [2] Surprisingly, #2445, the locomotive involved in the wreck, was repaired and put back into service despite the extensive damage it sustained, only to be retired and scrapped in 1953.
1856 Great Train Wreck of 1856, Whitemarsh Township, Pennsylvania; 60+ killed plus 100+ injured. Encouraged busier railroads in the Eastern U.S. to double track lines; also led to mandatory use of telegraph in cases of delays [9] 1859 South Bend train wreck, Mishawaka/South Bend, Indiana; 42 killed plus 50 injured [10] [11]
The Wreck of the Old 97 was an American rail disaster involving the Southern Railway mail train, officially known as the Fast Mail (train number 97), while en route from Monroe, Virginia, to Spencer, North Carolina, on September 27, 1903.
The rail-over-rail bridge being dismantled December 4 – United Kingdom – Lewisham rail crash: A steam train passes a red signal in the fog and ploughs into the back of an electric train. The crash also destroys a support column of a railway bridge, causing parts of the bridge to collapse onto the wreck; fortunately, a train approaching the ...
Elmira & Cortland Train #322 left Cortland at 9 a.m. and derailed “just east of Fowler’s Crossing and about 400 feet east of the Newtown Creek bridge” at 12:05 p.m.
It remains unknown whether the train was exceeding the speed limit at the time of the wreck, as locomotive No. 1104 did not have a speed recorder. The ICC report of July 11, 1925, incorrectly lists the speed limit at Rockport as 70 mph; the 1925 employee timetable lists the speed limit on the entire 40-mile DLW Old Road as 50 mph.
The locomotive, tender, and six cars plunged into the river. Crash reports indicate the engineer was attempting to make up time since the train was running 25 minutes late. [69] [70] September 8 – United Kingdom – The driver of a passenger train loses control on greasy rails and the train overruns buffers at Leeds. [71]