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Films about railway accidents and incidents. This includes train wrecks, head-on collisions, rear-end collisions, derailments, fires, explosions, release of hazardous chemicals, sabotage, terrorism, people falling from trains, and collisions with people on tracks.
1961 City of Denver-schoolbus collision, Auburn, Colorado; 20 killed plus 16 injured. Remains Colorado's deadliest traffic accident to date [174] [175] 1962 Steelton train derailment, Steelton, Pennsylvania; 19 killed plus 120+ injured [176] [177] [178] 1963 Chualar bus crash, Chualar, California; 32 killed plus 25 injured.
Fiumarella rail disaster; S. Singleton Bank rail crash This page was last edited on 5 December 2024, at 23:00 (UTC). ... Category: Railway accidents in 1961.
February 7 – Australia – Violet Town rail accident Victoria, A Southern Aurora train collided onto an Albury train, killing nine people and injuring 117. [ 163 ] February 9 – Dahomey (now Benin) – Two trains collided 12 miles (20 km) northwest of Cotonou , killing 10 people and seriously injuring 25.
Silent-era star Wallace Reid was badly injured in a train crash during filming in Oregon. His injuries caused him severe pain and the studio supplied him with increasing quantities of morphine so he could keep working. Addicted to morphine and also suffering from alcoholism, Reid died in 1923 at the age of 31. [10] Wet and Warmer (1919).
The Fiumarella rail disaster was one of the most serious incidents in the history of the Italian railways. It occurred at about 7:45 a.m. on 23 December 1961, at the Fiumarella viaduct, near Catanzaro , in the region of Calabria , southern Italy .
The 8:50 diesel multiple unit train from Colne to Fleetwood collided with the rear of a ballast train at about 45 miles per hour (72 km/h). The latter had been working in the vicinity of Singleton Bank signal box and was about to leave to clear the section for the express.
April – D5151, the first Sulzer Type 2 diesel locomotive, later British Rail Class 25, is completed at B.R. Darlington Works.; April 9 – The Long Beach Line, the last operating service of the former Pacific Electric Railway, is replaced by buses.