User:Thryduulf/List of rail accidents

This is my initial selection of entries from the two List of rail accidents articles (pre and post 1950) that are imho worthy of remaining on the international list. Thryduulf 00:45, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

class="wikitable sortable" !Year !Accident !Summary !Death toll !Injuries !Comments
1815	Brunton's Mechanical Traveller	boiler explosion	16	?	Very, very early
1830	William Huskisson	Train/pedestrian collision	1	0?	Widely known as first passenger train death
1830	Baltimore & Ohio, Maryland	Driver run over	1	0?	First railroad accident in the USA
1831	Best Friend of Charleston	Boiler explosion	?	?	"Widely acclaimed as the first locomotive to be built entirely within the United States. It also produced the first locomotive boiler explosion in the US."
1833	Granite Railway	Snapped cable on incline	1	3	Worthy of inlcusion if its the first accident on an incline, otherwise should be on the national list only.
1837	Suffolk, Virginia	Head-on collision	3	"dozens"	"First head-on collision to result in passenger fatalities"
1841	Sonning cutting	Train hits landslide	8	17	"The extent of the casualties in this accident called into question the practice of mixing passenger and freight wagons in fast trains."
1842	Meudon (Versailles), France	Fire	55	??	"This led to the abandonment of the then-common practice of locking passengers in their carriages in France."
1853	Mount Union, Pennsylvania	rear-end collision	7	?	"the highest single U.S. accident toll up to this time"
1853	Chicago, Illinois	collision	21	?	Collision on an at-grade crossing, led to grade separation of junction.
1853	Norwalk, Connecticut	Train ran off open bridge	46	30	"First major U.S. railroad bridge disaster"
1853	Pawtucket, Rhode Island	Head-on collision	13	50	"Believed to be the earliest wreck photographed"
1854	Baptiste Creek, Canada West	Rear-end collision	52+	?	High death toll, first Canadian accident on the list
1855	Desjardins Canal, Canada West	Bridge collapse	70	?	High death toll
1856	The Great Train Wreck of 1856	head-on collsion	59-67	100+	"the worst railroad catastrophe in the world until the 1870s, and indeed, one of the single worst events of its time, having an impact that rivals that of September 11, 2001 in the modern era."
1861	Clayton Tunnel rail crash	rear-end collision	23	176	"the worst accident to occur up to that time on the British railway system."
1864	St-Hilaire train disaster	Train ran off open bridge	99	?	high death toll
1874	Thorpe, Norfolk, England	head-on collision	25	100+	"led directly to the introduction of automatic control systems to manage traffic on single-track railways"
1876	Ashtabula River Railroad bridge disaster	Bridge collapse	92	64	High death toll
1879	Tay Bridge Disaster	Bridge collapse	75	?	High death toll; very widely known; epic poem (notable enoguh for its own article) composed about the accident.
1887	Great Chatsworth Train Wreck	Bridge collapse	84	279	High death toll.
1887	Mud Run, Pennsylvania	rear-end collsion	64	200	High death toll
1889	Armagh rail disaster	runaway cars collide with following train	88	?	high death toll, led to Regulation of Railways Act 1889.
1891	Great East Thompson Train Wreck.	Four train collision	2-3	?	Four trains involved
1895	Gare Montparnasse, Paris,	Train overruns buffers, ends in street	1	?	Very famous due to famous photograph
1896	Snowdon Mountain Railway	Runaway train	1	?	First mountain railway accident, line closed for more than a year
1896	1896 Atlantic City rail crash	two train collision	50	60	High death toll
1896	The Crash at Crush	Staged collision	3	"many"	Staged crashes are unusual, spectators killed
1897	Gentofte train crash, Denmark	SPAD, two-train collison	40	100+	High death toll, first mention of SPAD accident
1902	Frankfurt am Main, Germany	Buffer stop collision	?	?	inspires development of Rawie range of energy-absorbing buffer stops
1903	Paris Metro train fire	Fire	84	?	First metro accident, high death toll, led to design of low-voltage control circuit for EMU cars
1904	Eden, Colorado	Bridge washout	97-111	?	High death toll
1904	Morristown, Tennessee	rear-end collision	113	?	high death toll
1906	Atlantic City, New Jersey	Derailment on bridge	57	?	worst U.S. drawbridge accident until 1958
1908	Sunshine train disaster	rear-end collision	44	400	First Australian accident on the list, high death toll, extremely high number of injured
1910	Cascade Tunnel, Washington, United States	Avalanch derails two trains	100	?	High death toll
1915	Quintinshill rail crash	four-train collision	227	246	Extremely high death toll, worst accident in UK (as of 2006)
1917	Fréjus Rail Tunnel, France	runaway train derails	540-800	?	Extremely high death toll, worst accident in France in 20th Century
1918	Hammond circus train wreck	rear-end collision	88	127	high death toll
1918	Great train wreck of 1918	head-on collision	101	171	very high death toll
1918	Weesp, Netherlands	derailment caused by unstable embankment	41	42	high death toll, lead to dedicated study of soil mechanics at Delft university
1918	Getå train disaster	derailment cause by landslide	41	41	"most fatal train accident in the history of rail transport in Sweden"
1918	Malbone Street Wreck	derailment in tunnel	93+	?	First US subway accident, very high death toll
1923	Nebukawa Station, Odawara, Japan	earthquake	112	13	High death toll, First Japanese accident on the list.
1925	Traveston, Australia	Derailment on bridge	10	48	"resulted in baggage cars being specially built for passenger trains and ended, for a time, the use of goods vehicles on passenger trains"
1929	Buir, Germany	Derailment	13	40	led to the introduction of the La, the German railways' book of temporary speed restrictions
1933	Lagny (Seine-et-Marne), France	rear-end collision	230	?	high death toll
1938	Balaclava Station, Jamaica	derail	30-40	70	Moderately high death toll, first Jamaican accident on list
1938	Barbacena, Brazil	collison, fire	82+	?	High death toll
1938	Bessarabia, Moldova (then Romania)	two-train collision	93	340	High death toll
1939	Genthin, Germany	rear-end collison	186	453	Highest number of fatalities ever in an accident in Germany.
1939	Markdorf, Germany	two-train collison	101	?	Very high death toll, same day as Genthin accident
1943	Kensington, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Derailment	79	117	High death toll
1944	Torre del Bierzo tunnel, Spain	?	78-250+	?	High death toll
1944	Balvano, Italy	train stalls in tunnel, stowaways die of CO poisoning	500+	?	Extremely high death toll
1945	Assling, Germany	two-train collision	110	?	Very high death toll
1947	Hachiko line rail crash, Japan	Derailment	184	495	Very high death toll
1949	Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki, Poland	Derailment	200+	?	Very high death toll
1950	Richmond Hill, New York	Two-train collision	79	"hundreds"	High death toll
1951	Woodbridge, New Jersey	Derailment	85	500+	High death toll
1952	Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash	three-train collision	112	340	Very high death toll
1953	Union Station, Washington, DC	buffer overrun, ends in basement after concourse gives way	0	?	Notable for circumstances of accident and aftermath
1953	Sydenham Rail Disaster	rear-end collision	15	748	Huge number of injured
1953	Šakvice train disaster, Czechoslovakia	two-train collision	106	?	Very high death toll
1953	Tangiwai disaster, New Zealand	bridge collapse	151	?	Very high death toll
1955	Guadalajara, Mexico	Train falls into canyon	300	?	Extremely high death toll
1957	near Kuurila, Finland	head-on collision	26	60	Finland's worst peace-time train crash.
1957	Montgomery, Pakistan	two-train collision	250	?	Extremely high death toll
1957	Lewisham rail crash, England	rear-end collision	90	173	High death toll
1960	Stéblová train disaster, Czechoslovakia	head-on collision	118	110	Very high death toll
1962	Harmelen train disaster, Netherlands	head-on collision	93	52	the worst railway accident in the history of The Netherlands
1962	Tokyo, Japan	three-train collsion	160	?	Very high death toll
1963	Yokohama rail crash, Japan	three-train collision	161	?	Very high death toll
1964	Mirigama train crash, Sri Lanka	Derailment	61	?	High death toll
1967	Langenweddingen rail crash, East Germany	train/petrol lorry collision	94	?	Very high death toll
1971	Dahlerau, Germany	two-train collision	46	25	Worst peace-time accident in pre-unification West Germany
1972	Saltillo, Mexico	derailment, fire	208	?	Extremely high death toll
1974	Zagreb, Yugoslavia (now Croatia)	derailment	153	?	Very high death toll
1975	Moorgate tube crash	train collides with tunnel headwall	43	?	Worst rail-accident on London Underground (7th July was terrorism)
1977	Granville railway disaster, Australia	derailment causing bridge collapse	83	200+	Australia's worst accident (as of 2006)
1977	Chicago Loop derailment	rear-end collision	11	180+	Worst accident on Chicago L
1978	Waverly Tank Car Explosion	LPG explosion	15	56	Blast destroyed town buildings
1978	Youngstown, Florida	derailment, chlorine gas cloud relased	8	138	first recorded major liquified chlorine gas disaster
1979	Mississauga train derailment of 1979	derailment, fire, chlorine/propane contamination cloud	0	0	more than 250,000 residents are evacuated from the city: the largest peacetime emergency evacuation in North American history until 2005
1979	Taling Chan, Thailand	two-train collision	54	?	worst accident in Thai railway history
1980	Buttevant, County Cork, Ireland	collision	18	62	worst accident in Rep. of Ireland
1980	Toruń, Poland	SPAD, rear-end collision	67	?	High death toll
1981	160 km south of Seoul, S. Korea	two-train collision	54	?	High death toll
1981	Bihar train disaster, India	train falls into river	500-800	?	Extremely high death toll
1982	50 miles west of Algiers, Algeria	derailment	130+	146	Very high death toll
1982	near Agra, India	two-train collision	50	50	High death toll
1982	Andhra Pradesh, Inida	train/bus collision	59+	25	High death toll
1983	Guaymas, Mexico	rear-end collision	56	78	High death toll
1984	KCR East Rail, Hong Kong	derailment	0	0	spurred a series of public outcries concerning railway safety.
1985	Mangualde, Portugal	collision, fire	100+	?	Very high death toll
1986	Hinton train collision, Canada	head-on collision	23	?	led to the adoption of stricter crew scheduling practice and a complete rewrite of the operating rules
1987	Chase, Maryland rail wreck	two-train collision	18	?	caused the US railroad industry to tighten up drug use detection among operational personnel
1988	Gare de Lyon train accident, France	collision in station	56	50+	High death toll
1988	Ashtamudi Lake rail disaster, India	Derailment, train falls in lake	107	?	Very high death toll
1988	Clapham Junction rail crash	three train collision	35	100+	Lead to major inquiry, the accident to which all modern UK train accidents are compared.
1989	Lalitpur rail disaster, India	derailment	75	?	High death toll
1989	Ufa train disaster, Russia	gas pipeline explosion	400-1000	?	Extremely high death toll
1989	Quilon Lake rail disaster, India	derailment, train falls in lake	107	?	Very high death toll
1990	Sindh province, Pakistan	two-train collision	210+	?	Extremely high death toll
1990	Patna rail disaster, India	fire	70+	?	High death toll
1991	Cannon Street Station, London	buffer-stop collision	1	542	Very high number of injured
1991	Melun, France	two-train collision	16	?	led to the adoption of the KVB automatic train control system which will detect improper train handling
1993	Busan, South Korea	derailment	79	?	high death toll
1993	Chhabra rail disaster, India	two-train collision	71	?	High death toll|
1993	Big Bayou Canot train disaster, Alabama	derailment, train falls off bridge	47	?	Amtrak's deadliest accident
1993	Ngai Ndethya, Kenya	bridge washout	114	?	Very high death toll
1994	Tolunda, Angola	train crash in canyon	300	?	Extremely high death toll
1995	Firozabad rail disaster, India	rear-end collision	358	?	Extremely high death toll
1995	Baku, Azerbaijan	metro fire	337	?	World's deadliest metro disaster
1996	Weyauwega derailment, Wisconsin	derailment, fire	?	?	Town evacuated for 18 days due to fire
1997	Gorakhpur rail diasaster	collision	60+	?	High death toll
1997	Bilaspur rail disaster	derailment on a bridge	120	?	Very high death toll
1998	Yaounde train explosion, Cameroon	explosion	100+	?	Very high death toll
1998	Eschede train disaster, Germany	bridge collapses onto derailed train	101	100	the world's worst high-speed train disaster
1998	Khanna train crash disaster, India	two-train collision, fire	150+	?	Very high death toll
1999	Gauhati rail disaster, India	head-on collsion	285+	?	Extremely high death toll
1998	Ladbroke Grove rail crash, London	SPAD, head-on collision	31	400	lead to a major inquiry, dented public confidence
2000	Hatfield rail crash, England	derailment	4	102	forces biggest and most expensive re-railing exercise in British history, causing nationwide chaos. Start of current era in UK railways.
2000	Kaprun disaster, Austria	fire in tunnel on funicular railway	155	?	Very high death toll. Only fire on funicular in list I think.
2001	Kadalundi River rail disaster, India	deraliment, train fell in river	57	?	High death toll
2002	Al Ayatt train disaster, Egypt	fre on overcrowded train	373	?	Extremely high death toll
2002	Tenga, Mozambique	runaway carriages collide with following train	200	?	Extremely high death toll
2002	Igandu train disaster, Tanzania	train rolls back, collides with following train	nearly 300	?	Extremely high death toll
2002	Rafiganj rail disaster, Inida	derailment, train falls in river	130	?	Very high death toll
2003	Daegu subway fire, South Korea	fire on subway	200	?	Extremely high death toll
2004	Ryongchon disaster, North Korea	explosion	50+	1000+	High death toll, extremely high number of injured
2004	Queen of the Sea train disaster, Sri Lanka	Train engulfed by tsunami	1700	?	world's worst rail disaster
2005	Amagasaki rail crash, Japan	derailment, collision with building	107	549	Very high death toll
2005	Ghotki rail crash, Pakistan	three-train collision	150+	?	Very high death toll
2005	Veligonda rail disaster,	track washed away in flood	114	"many more"	Very high death toll
2006	Qalyoub, Egypt	two-train collision	57	128	High death toll
2006	2006 Lathen maglev train accident	train collides with a maintenance of way vehicle]]	23+	?	First serious maglev accident