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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. Later in the year, a second accident resulted in ten injuries, with two of them ultimately dying. [3]
June 19 – United States – Custer Creek train wreck: Milwaukee Road's Olympian plunges into Custer Creek when a 25-year-old bridge, weakened by heavy rain, collapses; 47 people killed, many victims in a tourist sleeper that is submerged in 20 feet (6 m) of water for almost 36 hours. Some bodies recovered as far as 50 miles (80 km) downstream.
March 21 – United Kingdom – An accident involving a South Eastern Railway train at St Johns, London killed three people. [2] August 19 – United States – 1890 Quincy train wreck, Quincy, Massachusetts: A jack used to level rails was left on the tracks. A passenger train then collided with it causing a derailment.
The only passenger to be killed travelling by train in the United Kingdom that year. [24] [25] 10 March – Netherlands – During a test drive a locomotive derailed on a incompletely closed railway bridge near Warmond. One person was killed. This was the first railway accident in the Netherlands. [26]
June 6 - Indonesia - In West Java, a train carrying pine wood rolled over near Cukanghaur train station, killing a crew member of the train and the station master, and injuring seven people. [27] June 11 – United Kingdom – Eltham Well Hall rail crash: An excursion train took a bend at excessive speed and derailed at Eltham, London. The ...
On Oct. 15, 2023, a BNSF train derailed about five miles north of Pueblo, causing multiple train cars to crash down to I-25 and killing semi-truck driver, 60-year-old Lafollette Henderson.
1923 Nebukawa Train crash by Great Kanto earthquake September 1 – Japan – Nebukawa Station accident: A landslide caused by the 1923 Great KantÅ earthquake hits Nebukawa Station and an approaching train. 112 passengers were killed and thirteen injured. September 8 – USSR – An express train derails at Omsk killing 82 and injuring 150. [40]
Feb. 28—SYRACUSE — A Syracuse man is dead after a train versus car crash which took place just before 1 p.m. Wednesday. At 12:59 p.m., Kosciusko County 911 Emergency Dispatch Center dispatched ...