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- train carrying Korea -bound Troop s is given incorrect orders and collides with a passenger train, killing 21, including 17 soldiers.
- commuter trains kills 79, hundreds injured.
- November line. 15 killed.
- train; the train barrels through the end of track barriers and stationmaster's office at Union Station in Washington, DC , but nobody is killed in the accident. President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower 's inauguration is scheduled the following week and there is no time to extract the GG-1 electric locomotive from the basement of Union Station where it ended after the floor of the concourse gave way, so the hole is planked over for the celebration week and after the inaugural festivities, the unit is cut up into three pieces, hauled to Altoona, Pennsylvania where it had been built and is welded back together to serve for another three decades. GG-1 No. 4876 is in the collection of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum in Baltimore, Maryland .
- trains tangle near Conneaut on the four-track mainline on the night of March 27. Twenty-one passengers die. Cause is found to be an improperly secured gondola load - a section of thirteen-inch pipe fell from a freighter car onto the adjacent track, getting struck by a passenger train.
- train derails when a section gang opens a switch directly in front of the speeding train. The locomotive, tender, and first 18 cars derail, two are killed instantly.
- runs into the rear of another train. Five people are killed and 748 injured.
- hits commuter train at a station, killing 106.
- ; the Tangiwai Railway bridge over the Whangaehu River collapses as the overnight express train between Wellington and Auckland passes over it; the bridge supports had been weakened by a Lahar (a volcanic ash and debris filled flash flood) a few minutes before the train passed. 151 people are killed.
- March 15 , 1957 – near Kuurila , Finland : An overnight passenger train collides head-on with an express train. 26 are killed and 60 injured in Finland's worst peace-time train crash.
- September 29 , 1957 – Montgomery , Pakistan : An express train crashes into an oil train. 250 killed.
- December 6 , 1957 – Lewisham Train Crash , England : 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. 90 people are killed.
- September, train derails, killing 17.
- morning commuter train blows through stop signals, derails, then slides out the open drawspan. Both diesels and first two coaches plunge into Newark Bay and sink immediately, 48 drown. A third coach hangs precariously out the drawbridge for two hours, snagged by its rear truck, before it, too, topples into the water. As the whole operating crew was killed, no absolute determination for the accident was reached, but a medical emergency in the cab was theorized.
- passenger train strikes a heavy tanker truck carrying a large quantity crude oil at a grade crossing and derails. The wreckage immediately ignites and fourteen perish in the inferno.
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- November 16 , 1960 – Stéblová Train Disaster , Czechoslovakia : 118 are killed and 110 injured in a head-on collision.
- 1963 – Geurie Crossing Loop Collision : A train pulled by a 265-tonne Beyer-Garrett 6003 locomotive in loop stands foul of main line, causing collision with NSWGR C38 class No.3817. Both locos are later written off.
- 1963 – Yokohama Rail Crash , Japan : Two commuter trains hit a derailed freight train. 161 killed.
- to Dortmund derails at Zagreb train station due to excessive speed. 153 passengers killed.
- collides with an express train from Trondheim . 27 killed.
- train fails to stop at a cul-de-sac tunnel at Moorgate Station , 43 people are killed.
- and Munich due to a dispatcher error. 41 dead, 122 injured.
- to Trondheim , Norway derails. The driver is killed.
- and hits a bridge support.
- Summer at the Nordlandsbanen line derails. The driver is killed.
- Company freight train derails near the Escambia Bay, and a punctured tank car of anhydrous ammonia kills two local residents as they try to flee the toxic gas cloud. Another 46 are injured.
- derails, two tank cars containing Liquified Petroleum Gas explode, killing 15 and injuring 56. Numerous buildings in Waverly are destroyed by force of the blast.
- freight train derails, a Chlorine gas cloud, released from a punctured tank car, kills eight and injures 138. This was the first recorded major liquified Chlorine gas disaster and the cloud was some three miles long.
- enters a curve at excess speed; all of the consist but the lead engine and last car derail and slide down a ravine. Six die, including Gov. Jimmy Carter 's former chef, Louis Price , killed in the galley. Sixty others are injured, most trapped in the wreckage.
- April 8 , 1979 – Louisville And Nashville Railroad freight derails at Crestview, Florida , United States and punctured tank car leaks Anhydrous Ammonia , injuring 14.
- October 22 , 1979 – Invergowrie Rail Crash , Scotland : starting signal failed to return completely to stop, giving the following train a false clear indication.
- s containing Chlorine derail causing deadly smoke and air Contamination ; no fatalities or serious injuries, however more than 250,000 residents are evacuated from the city, resulting in the second largest peacetime Evacuation in North America n history, after the 2005 evacuation of New Orleans, Louisiana due to Hurricane Katrina .
- and Roodeschool resulting in 9 deaths and 21 injured.
- - Cork line resulting in 18 deaths and 62 injured. This remains Ireland's worst transportation disaster.
- . When the train was being re-railed, another car crashed into a tunnel support, killing three people. In an unusual coincidence, this happened at the same time Air Florida Flight 90 crashed into the 14th Street Bridge .
- passenger train and CN freight train collide head-on. This led to the adoption of stricter crew scheduling practice and a complete rewrite of the operating rules.
- March 10 , 1986 – Khagaria Rail Disaster , over 50 people are killed in a collison in Bihar .
- August 6 , 1986 – Palamau Rail Disaster , 52 people drown when a train falls into a deep ditch after a collision.
- September 19 , 1986 – Colwich Rail Crash , Rugeley , Staffordshire , England : High speed collision when one train fails to stop in time at a red signal, and obstructs a junction. Despite two locomotives being totally destroyed, the only death was one of the drivers.
- train strikes a flatbed truck that drove around the crossing gates.
- ''Colonial'' collides with a set of Conrail freight locomotives that had missed a stop signal and was fouling the Northeast Corridor mainline at Gunpow Interlocking. The northbound passenger consist derails, killing 14 passengers, the lounge car attendant, and the Amtrak engineer The freight crew had been smoking marijuana; this notorious accident caused the US railroad industry to tighten up drug use detection among operational personnel.
- causing a Hopper to foul the mainline; one of the railroad's passenger trains hits the hopper.
- July 8 , 1987 - Machieral Rail Disaster , 53 people killed in the derailment of a train in Andhra Pradesh .
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- Tank gets stuck on a level crossing and gets hit by an express train. 6 die, 33 are injured.
- June 27 , 1988 – Gare De Lyon Train Accident , Gare De Lyon , France : Runaway train hits stationary rush-hour train in station, 56 killed, over 50 injured.
- July 8 , 1988 - Ashtamudi Lake Rail Disaster , passenger train falls in the lake after derailing, 107 people drowned.
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- and collides with the first train; the accident leaves six people dead and 94 injured.
- April 18 , 1989 – Lalitpur Rail Disaster , 75 killed when train derails in Uttar Praadesh
- and three Passenger Car s flip on a curve and plunge down the ravine.
- line, which explodes.
- 1989 – Quilon Lake Rail Disaster , a train falls off a bridge and and into a lake, killing 107. Officials claimed 'freak typhoon' caused the crash, despite meteorological assertions to the contrary.
- at Cannon Street Station . 1 person killed. 542 persons injured.
- January 18 1991 – A passenger train at the Raumabanen line derails at Bjorli , Norway . 2 killed.
- April, 1991 – Shigaraki Train Disaster , Shigaraki, Shiga , Japan : 42 people were killed.
- ''Silver Star'' derails the rear portion of its consist on the former Seaboard Air Line of the CSXT Railroad when a faulty switch moves as the train passes over it, directing a coach into a hopper car standing on a siding, and derailing the following equipment. Eight passengers die and 76 are injured.
- just north of Union Square. Two subway cars split open as they strike the steel tunnel support beams. The uninjured motorman, who passengers report had been handling the train erratically, flees the scene and is arrested later, testing out as legally drunk. This accident, coupled with the Amtrak ''Colonial'' wreck at Chase, Maryland on January 4 , 1987 , is instrumental in driving new federal rules for engineer certification and toxicology.
- October, 1991 – Melun , France . A freight train overruns a closed signal, and fouls the path of the Nice - Paris night train. 16 people are killed. The accident was caused by a heart attack suffered by the freight train engineer. The deadman mechanism worked perfectly, but it was too late to stop the train in time. This led to the adoption of the KVB Automatic Train Control System which will detect improper train handling.
- March 12 1992 – A tram in Gothenburg , Sweden rolls backwards down a hill without control, derails near the bottom of it. There it glides sideways in a high speed into a tram stop where people are waiting. 13 killed, many injured.
- '' Colonial '' passenger train hit a dump truck at a service road. The driver of the dump truck was killed, only minor injuries on the train.
- freight train transporting Benzene encounters fatigued tracks and derails, plunging 3 Tank Car s off a trestle and into the Nemadji River . One of the cars ruptures, spilling 21,000 gallons of chemicals into the river, which are then carried into Lake Superior , forming a toxic cloud over Superior and Duluth, Minnesota . 40,000 area residents are evacuated; many suffer long-term health problems, and the damage to the surrounding environment is considerable.
- '' Colonial '' passenger train, traveling at nearly 80 mph, enters a switch that had just moments before been opened by a pair of teenaged Saboteur s. Though there are no fatalities, dozens are injured. 60 of the passengers subsequently sue Amtrak and CSX (who owned the right-of-way) for negligence, but the case is decided in favor of the railroad companies as it was determined that there was no way for the train crew to prevent the incident. The two teens are sentenced to federal prison terms for the crime.
- train number 7 runs a red signal and is hit by westbound train number 12; 7 passengers die are injured in the accident.
- passenger train strikes a gasoline tanker truck that has stopped on a grade crossing, causing the tanker to explode. Six people (including the truck driver) are killed and 12 injured. The dining car stops in the center of the fire and is totalled.
- March 28 1993 – Busan Train Disaster , Busan , South Korea : An express train derailed and 79 people were killed.
- May 3 1993 – Chhabra Rail Diasaster , 71 people die in a collision between two trains at Chhabra in Rajasthan .
- August 2 1993 – Vega De Anzo , Spain a crash in a tunnel at kills 12.
- 's former Louisville & Nashville Gulfcoast line. Minutes later, Amtrak's ''Sunset Limited'', just out of Mobile, Alabama, strikes the bad gauge, plunging the train into the water. 47 people are killed in Amtrak's deadliest accident.
- October 3 1993 – A local train collides with a shunting locomotive at Nordstrand , Oslo , Norway . 5 killed.
- 1993 - 114 killed in a Mombasa-bound passenger train which plunged into a river after floods wash away a bridge at Ngai Ndethya.
- June 25 1994 – Greenock Rail Crash , Scotland : Two people are killed when a train strikes concrete blocks that were placed on the track by vandals.
- 's '' Lake Shore Limited '' Passenger Train derails while traveling at 75 Mph (120.7 Km/h ), injuring 125 of the train's passengers and crew members.
- September 22 1994 – Damaged brakes make a train crash into a canyon in Tolunda , Angola . 300 killed.
- train traveling 55 mph crashes into a pickup truck on a private driveway, killing 2 passengers and injuring 3.
- December 2 1994 – Szajol , Hungary : InterCity train traveling at 65 mph derails and crashes into the railway station's building, killing 31 passengers and injuring many people.
- at a Crossing Loop causes a head-on collision.
- commuter train bound for Washington Union Station , either misses or ignores a stop signal and collides with outgoing Amtrak train no. 29, the westbound ''Capitol Limited''. The crash left 11 people dead aboard the MARC train. Three die of injuries suffered in the impact, but the rest are killed by smoke and flames, exacerbated by a natural gas tank located at trackside, which also ignites. {Link without Title}
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- April 18 1997 – Gorakhpur Rail Diasaster , Over 60 people are killed in a collision at Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh .
- July 8 1997 – Lehra Khanna Station Bombing , 33 people are killed by a terrorist bomb left on a station at Lehra Khanna in the Punjab .
- July 28 1997 – Faridabad Train Crash , 12 people die in a collision at Faridabad in the Delhi suburbs.
- September 14 1997 – Bilaspur Rail Disaster , 120 people are killed in a derailment on a bridge in Bilaspur province in Madhya Pradesh .
- September 19 1997 – Southall Rail Crash , London , United Kingdom . A passenger train collides with a freight train, killing 6.
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- December 9 , 1997 – Hanover , Germany : A regional train carrying more than 300 passengers collides with a freight train consisting of 20 tanker cars filled with petrol. Five of the wrecked tankers ignite and explode. More than 90 injured. Technisches Hilfswerk, OV Ronnenberg
- February 15 1998 – Yaounde Train Explosion , Cameroon , Spilt fuel oil from a tanker train crash ignited and exploded, killing over 100 people.
- March 6 1998 – Express passenger train derails at Jyväskylä , Finland , as a result of over-speeding while passing over a slow-speed turnout. The locomotive driver and nine passengers were killed, 94 were injured.
- May 19 1998 – Robertson Derailment , Robertson, NSW , Australia . 2 drivers killed when a coal train derails on a road bridge that had partially collapsed after heavy rain.
- April 4 1998 – Fatuha Train Crash , 12 people die in derailment near Patna .
- April 24 1998 – Parali Vaijanath Train Crash , 24 people die in high speed collision at a rural station in Maharashtra .
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- train number 102 strikes a semi-truck that was stopped on a grade crossing.
- November 26 1998 – Over 150 people died in the Khanna Train Crash Disaster , when a high speed collision at a rural station in the Punjab catches fire.
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- ''City of New Orleans'' hits a semi truck loaded with steel rebar at a Grade Crossing and derails; an ensuing fire sets one Superliner sleeper alight. 11 fatalities and over 100 injuries.
- June 4 1999 - Kazipet Train Crash , Twelve are killed in a derailment at Kazipet in Andhra Pradesh .
- August 2 , 1999 – Gauhati Rail Disaster , Two express trains collide head-on in Gauhati , India . Over 285 people are killed.
- turning the through train into a collision with a looped train.
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- October 5 , 1999 – Ladbroke Grove (Paddington) Rail Disaster , United Kingdom : Two trains collide head-on, killing 31 and injuring 400.
- December 3 , 1999 – Glenbrook Train Disaster , New South Wales , Australia : Stop and Proceed rule at red signal applied with insufficient care (too much speed), killing 7.
- 1999 - 32 die at Tsavo National park when brakes on a passenger train fail, forcing it to jump the rails.
- killing 19 people.
- February 6 2000 – Brühl , Germany : A night express train speeds in a construction area and derails at Brühl station, 9 die.
- March train derails and is hit by another train on the next track; four are killed and 33 are injured.
- March 28 , 2000 - A Murray County, Georgia school bus collides with a CSXT freight train; 3 are dead and 4 are injured
- and Lillestrøm and collides with another freight train standing still at Lillestrøm Station. Two Gas Wagons loaded with Propane catch fire and 2000 people are evacuated in fear of a BLEVE , but there are no casualties.
- 6 June 2000 - Train driver killed in derailment near Kasganj .
- 1 July 2000 - Two engineers killed in collision in Ambala .
- 15 August , 2000 - 13 died near Kenya's fourth largest city, Kisumu after a passenger train rolled back due to failed brakes.
- 19 August , 2000 - at least 25 were burnt to death after a goods train carrying gas rolled back, smashed into stationary wagons and exploded.
- - Leeds express passes at 115 miles per hour, a faulty rail shatters into 300 pieces due to condition known as rolling contact fatigue. Four are killed, and 102 are injured. Implications of this rail failure forces biggest and most expensive re-railing exercise in British history. Operator Network Rail is found guilty in one of the longest rail-related trials in UK legal history, but manslaughter charges against company managers are not sustained.
- 6 June 2000 - A bomb explodes on a train in Bathinda , killing two people.
- train catches fire in a tunnel, 155 die.
- December 2 2000 – Sarai Banjara Rail Disaster , a crowded communter train crashes into a derailed freight train in the Punjab over 45 are killed.
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- falls asleep at the wheel; his car leaves the road just before a bridge over the tracks, driver escapes, but car is almost instantly hit by a passenger train as the car reaches the tracks, which then hits a coal train in the opposite direction. 10 people are killed, over 80 are injured.
- March 27 , 2001 – Pécrot Rail Crash , Pécrot , Belgium : Two passenger trains collide on the same track, killing 8 and injuring 12.
- 's '' Ocean '' passed through the town. The resulting derailment destroyed several buildings and passenger rail cars. Many people were injured, several severely although there were no fatalities.
- June 21 2001 – 57 people are killed in the Kadalundi River Rail Disaster in Kerala , Southern India
- August 19 , 2001 – Kurunegala Train Crash , Sri Lanka : A Sri Lankan trail derails due to speeding and overcrowding. 13 people are killed. {Link without Title}
- trains collide head-on.
- December 2 2001 – Three killed in a collision between two trains at Dumri in Bihar .
- local train that had stopped to perform switching at Kodak Park causes the train to run away and derail five miles later, destroying homes and businesses in the area.
- train derails at 1.40 am C.S.T. near a residential area west of Minot; the derailment results in a massive Anhydrous Ammonia leak. Seven of 15 Tank Car s rupture, releasing 200,000+ Gallon s of Anhydrous Ammonia which vaporizes in the sub-zero air, forming a toxic cloud that drifts over much of Minot. One man dies and numerous others are treated for chemical exposure. {Link without Title}
- near Durban , resulting in 22 fatalities, of which 16 are children. {Link without Title}
- February 20 2002 – Al Ayatt Train Disaster , Egypt : A train packed to double capacity catches fire, 373 die.
- determines that the accident was caused by a hot-weather "sun kink" misalignment of the track due to inadequate CSX maintenance-of-way, and stated that equipment and track damages totaled about $(US)8.3 million. Several Superliner cars go on their sides and have to be taken out of service. Equipment pool shortages force the Washington-Chicago ''Cardinal'', Amtrak train Nos. 50-51, to give up the tri-weekly Superliner trainsets covering that assignment to the Auto-Train shortfall. Simultaneously, the low-level replacement equipment for the ''Cardinal'' and associated on board crew assignments are shifted from Washington, D.C. to New York City .
- train collides with a Trailer ; about 20 cars carrying plastic pellets, Benzene , Glycol and Hexane catch fire, forcing the evacuation of nearly 200 local residents.
- May 10 2002 – Potters Bar Rail Crash , north of London , England : a northbound train derailed at high speed; seven killed, 11 seriously injured.
- 13 May 2002 – Jaunpur Train Crash , 12 people die when a passenger train derails and crashes in Uttar Pradesh . An inquest later blames sabotage for the crash.
- , passenger carriages, separated from a train also carrying freight, run away and smash into a cement train, killing 200.
- station, killing 14 people. {Link without Title}
- June 24 2002 – Igandu Train Disaster , Tanzania : Nearly 300 are killed when a passenger train rolls backwards into a goods train.
- Metropolitan Subdivision of the CSXT Railroad at milepost 11.78 in Kensington at about 1:55 p.m., and eleven cars derail. Several go down an embankment and four Superliners overturn against trees. Of 164 passengers and thirteen crew, fourteen passengers and two crew are seriously injured, 71 passengers and eight crew with minor injuries. Damages were fixed in excess of $(US) 14.3 million, and the cause was determined to be improperly tamped ballast, improper slow order imposition, coupled with the 96 degree sunny weather which caused the misalignment. Slow orders on very hot days are imposed on passenger trains in the area following this accident. Several Superliners are totalled, including the 3000-sleeper, a Superliner II named Nevada.
- September 9 , 2002 – Bad Münder , Germany : Two freight trains collide head-on after a brake failure on one of the trains. A tanker car loaded with 1-Chlor-2,3-epoxypropan explodes, contamining the station and exposing 96 firemen to carcinogenic fumes.http://www.haz.de/niedersachsen/238531.html Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, 2004-08-20
- September 9 , 2002 – Rafiganj Rail Disaster , Over 130 people are killed when a passenger train derails and falls into the Dhave River in Bihar due to sabotaged tracks. {Link without Title}
- 21 December 2002 – Kurnool Train Crash , 20 people die when a passenger train derails in Andhra Pradesh . Later the cause is revealed to be deliberate sabotage.
- 3 January 2003 – Ghatnandur Train Crash , 18 people die in the collision of two trains at Ghatnandur in Maharashtra {Link without Title}
- January 31 , 2003 – Waterfall Train Disaster , Waterfall, New South Wales , Australia : A train derails as it rounds sharp curve at too high a speed. It is possible that the driver had a heart attack.
- February 2 , 2003 – Dete Train Crash , Zimbabwe : Two trains collide, derailing and catching fire, killing over 40 people. {Link without Title}
- trains, killing some 200.
- caused the train to lose control and plummet into a valley. 17 were killed and 173 were injured.
- (NS) passenger train collides head-on with a freight train; the NS driver was killed and 6 passengers were seriously injured.
- 15 May 2003 – Ladhowal Train Fire , A passenger train caught fire and 38 people were killed near Ladhowal in the Punjab . {Link without Title}
- 3 June 2003 , Albacete Train Crash – 19 people were killed in a train collision in Albacete , Southern Spain . {Link without Title}
- Union Pacific freight train carrying lumber derails in the Los Angeles Suburb of Commerce, California , destroying several homes and rupturing natural gas lines. {Link without Title}
- 23 June 2003 , Vaibhavwadi Rail Disaster – 51 people died when a special holiday trail derails in Maharashtra , India .
- 2 July 2003 , Warangal Train Crash – 22 people die when a train's brakes fail and it falls off a bridge into a crowded fish market in Warangal , India .
- August 3 2003 , Romney, Hythe And Dymchurch Railway , The volunteer train driver, 31-year-old Kevin Crouch , died when his train hit a car on a level crossing. Some of the train passengers were treated for shock and minor injuries.
- February 18 2004 – Nishapur Train Disaster , Iran : A train derails and catches fire, exploding hours later. About 300 are killed.
- April 22 2004 – Ryongchon Disaster , North Korea : Over 50 are killed and more than 1000 injured when an explosion takes place.
- February 15 became detached from a Maintenance train south of Carlisle and rolled down the sloping line until they crushed 4 workmen in a team repairing the line at Tebay, just north of Penrith; one of the workers later died in the hospital.The Metro (U.K.), March 2006.
- June 17 2004 – Karanjadi Train Crash , near Bombay , India : 20 die and 100 are injured when 10 carriages fall of a bridge during a monsoon-induced landslide.Daily Star (U.K.), June 17 2004.
- train derails due to the Chuetsu Earthquake . It is the first time a Shinkansen derails while in service.
- September 10 2004 – Nosaby, Blekinge , Sweden . A heavy truck brakes too late, goes through the closed gates and stops on the track. Two onboard the train was killed and 47 injured in the crash. The truck driver was sent to prison because he didn't continue to drive to the other side, but left his cab.
- , slamming into another train. Twenty people were injured in the crash.
- .]] hits a stationary car on a Level Crossing (an apparent Suicide ) at 100mph and derails. Five train passengers and the drivers of both the train and the car are killed; over 100 passengers are injured.
- November 15 2004 – Bundaberg Tilt Train Derailment , Berajondo (near Bundaberg ), Queensland , Australia : The world's fastest narrow-gauge train derailed at 108km/h. Remarakably, no-one was killed or permanently injured. The cause of the accident is still unknown and an investigation is still under way.
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- ; preliminary findings are that a turnout is left lined for a siding when it should have been lined for the mainline, causing a through Norfolk Southern freight train to collide with a parked train. {Link without Title} – Nine killed, the engine crew, and nearby citizens who are caught in toxic gas cloud released from a damaged tank car.
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- freight train derail; as one of the cars was carrying Propane , the area is evacuated. The tank car remains upright and intact, so local residents are allowed to return fairly quickly.
- trains on the near-new Blue line collide. About 140 passengers injured.
- double deck commuter train collides with a vehicle that had been driven onto the tracks and derails; the derailed train strikes the northbound Metrolink train on the other mainline track and a parked Union Pacific Railroad freight train on a siding. 11 people are killed, about 100 injured.
- February 3 , 2005 – Nagpur Level Crossing Disaster , India : A tractor-trailer carrying a wedding party is hit by a train. 55 wedding guests are killed.
- February 28 2005 – Kungsbacka , Sweden . A train carrying Chlorine derails, because of too high speed. Reason: the brake system had a manual setting: "filled"/"empty", and was falsely set at "empty". This was inside a city, causing alarm. This main rail line was closed for two weeks while removing the chlorine and the rail cars. No one seriously injured.
- train at a level crossing in the suburb of Mount Eliza . http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200503/s1327613.htm
- train operating on Canadian National Railway south of Superior, Wisconsin , derail and cause a forest fire near the town of Solon Springs, Wisconsin .
- April 21 2005 – Vadodara Rail Collision , India : collision between freight and passenger express train – 18 killed.
- April 25 2005 – Amagasaki Rail Crash , Amagasaki, Hyogo , Japan : A train derailed on sharp curve smashes into an apartment building. 107 were killed and 549 were injured.
- ; at least 35 people are killed, all on the bus.
- 's Transcontinental mainline is blocked when a train derails and destroys the 140 Ft (43 M ) bridge across Elkhorn Creek. Galt, Illionois accident
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- train strikes and kills a pedestrian.
- and first four Passenger Car s of the Grozny -Moscow train. Investigators found wires leading from the explosion site to a control panel and hideout about 50 M (164 Ft ) from the site. {Link without Title}
- s derail at a speed of 70 Kilometers/hour sending a very large amount of their heavy Fuel Oil cargo into the ground and contaminating Moscow's water supply and the Volga River after flowing down the Vazuza River from the accident site. About 641 meters of damaged track are subsequently replaced. It is not yet known if this incident is related to the bomb that was exploded on June 12 , 2005 that derailed a Passenger Train . [http://en.rian.ru/russia/20050616/40534658.html [http://www.rzdreview.com/document.asp?ob_no=729
- collides with a coal delivery truck near Revadim , about 25 miles south of Tel Aviv ; the train was bound for Beersheba when the accident occurred. At least seven people die in the accident and more than 200 are injured. (CBS)
- July 10 2005 Romney, Hythe And Dymchurch Railway , Kent . A 15" gauge steam train collides with a car on a level crossing, killing the volunteer driver of the train. None of the passengers in the train are seriously injured.
- July 13 2005 – Ghotki Rail Crash , Ghotki, Pakistan : A chain reaction accident caused by one train missing a signal and colliding into another results in three trains crashed and over 150 people dead.
- July 28 2005 – Jaunpur Train Bombing , a bomb explodes on a train in Uttar Pradesh , killing 13 people.
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