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British Railways: 24 January 1962: Locomotive United Kingdom: Bletchley, England: 0: 2: New York Telephone Company building explosion: 3 October 1962: Stationary power United States: New York City, New York: 23: 94 [61] PNKA CC 5002 (Bendul Explosion) 11 April 1968 Locomotive Indonesia: Purwakarta, West Java: 6 1 USS Basilone: 5 February 1973 ...
Boiler explosions generally fell into two categories. The first is the breakage of the boiler barrel itself, through weakness/damage or excessive internal pressure, resulting in sudden discharge of steam over a wide area. Stress corrosion cracking at the lap joints was a common cause of early boiler explosions, probably caused by caustic ...
Explosion at a bank suspected to have been caused by a gas leak in a sewer. [181] 26 December 2021 India: Muzaffarpur: 6 6 Factory boiler explosion. [182] 7 January 2022 China: Chongqing, Yuzhong District: 16 10 Chongqing explosion – Gas explosion in a housing block which contained a canteen. [183] [184] 13 January 2022 Canada: Southern ...
It also killed more people than any other UK railway boiler explosion of all time, though 26 were killed in a 1912 boiler explosion in San Antonio, USA. Most boiler explosions caused severe mechanical damage but often only the locomotive crew suffered physically; however, Brunton's locomotive was surrounded at the time by a crowd of curious ...
1 May – United Kingdom – The boiler of Newcastle and Carlisle Railway locomotive Adelaide explodes at Carlisle, Cumberland. Two people are injured. [27] December 11 – United Kingdom – The boiler of South Eastern Railway locomotive No. 78 Forrester explodes as it hauls a freight train near Bricklayers' Arms, Surrey. Both crew are killed ...
[a] The second worst, and the worst in England's peacetime history, 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 Northern Ireland ) it was 80; [ 2 ] and for the 1879 Tay Bridge disaster it was 75.
The cause of the accident, which was the L&YR's second major boiler explosion in five years, was put down to poor washing out of the firebox water spaces when at Colne shed. Afterwards, 72 pounds (33 kg) of boiler scale was collected. Although boilers were supposed to be washed out every eight days, this quantity suggests that it was up to ...
One of her boilers burst as she proceeded from Portsmouth Harbour to Stokes Bay to carry out a full-power trial. The explosion killed 15 people instantly, including her commanding officer; around 70 others were injured, of whom 30 later died. This was the Royal Navy's most deadly boiler explosion through the whole century.