from 2000 to the present.
The list includes some Terrorist Bombing s.
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- killing 19. The fire after the collision lasted nearly 6 hours.
- February 6 , 2000 – Brühl , Germany : An express night train from Amsterdam, Holland to Basel, Switzerland passes a construction area at excess speed and derails at Brühl station on the main line between Köln and Bonn, crashing into a nearby house. 9 die.
- March 2 , 2000 – Kølkær , Denmark : Two regional trains collide head-on after one passes a red signal. 3 die and 39 are injured.
- train derails and is hit by another train on the next track; 4 die and 33 are injured.
- and Lillestrøm; it collides with a stationary freight train 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.
- August 15 , 2000 - 13 die near Kisumu , Kenya's fourth-largest city, after a passenger train rolls back because of brake failure.
- August 19 , 2000 - at least 25 burn to death after a goods train carrying gas rolls back and hits stationary wagons, exploding in the process.
- - Leeds express passes at 115 mph (185 km/h), a faulty rail shatters into 300 pieces because of a condition known as Rolling Contact Fatigue . Four are killed, and 102 are injured. This rail failure forces the biggest and most expensive re-railing exercise in British history, with huge service disruption for many months. Operator Railtrack is found guilty in one of the longest rail-related trials in UK legal history, but manslaughter charges against company managers are not sustained.
- June 6 , 2000 - A bomb explodes on a train in Bathinda , killing 2 and injuring 1.
- June 28 , 2000 - 13 children die after a goods train they were riding on derails in Padang . The Indonesian government cracks down on passengers clinging onto the sides of freight trains as a means of free travel. (Source- BBC)
- train catches fire in a tunnel due to an unsafely installed heater. 155 die.
- December 2 , 2000 – Sarai Banjara Rail Disaster , a crowded commuter train crashes into a derailed freight train in the Punjab . More than 45 die.
- train in a terrorist attack near Blumentritt station. 22 die and hundreds were injured.
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- near the Bayview Extension and Pottery Road area. 23 passengers were on board; 2 slightly injured.
- falls asleep at the wheel and runs off the road, landing on railway tracks; he escapes, but the vehicle is almost instantly hit by a passenger train, which derails and hits a coal train coming in the opposite direction. 10 die, over 80 are injured.
- March 27 , 2001 – Pécrot Rail Crash , Pécrot , Belgium : Two passenger trains collide on the same track. 8 die and and 12 are injured.
- April 12 , 2001 – Stewiacke, Nova Scotia , Canada : a teenager tampered with a control switch on the VIA Rail Canada's ''Ocean''. Many are injured in the resulting crash.
- freight train of 47 cars, including some with hazardous molten Phenol Acid , runs away in the yard at Toledo with no engineer aboard. The engineer had stepped out to reset a switch but had improperly applied the Dynamic Brake . It runs for to Kenton, Ohio before being stopped by a railroad worker who jumps aboard and manages to stop it. CSX had slowed the train down to 10 mph by coupling an engine onto the end.2
- June 21 , 2001 – Kadalundi River Rail Disaster , Kerala , India : 57 people die.
- July 18 , 2001 – Howard Street Tunnel Fire , Baltimore, Maryland , United States : A 60-car CSX train carrying chemicals and wood products derails in a long tunnel under Baltimore, causing a fire that burns for six days and water contamination.3
- August 19 , 2001 – Kurunegala Train Crash , Sri Lanka : A Sri Lankan trail derails because of speeding and overcrowding. 13 die.4
- September 2 , 2001 – Cirebon , Indonesia : A passenger train and a locomotive collide, killing 40 and seriously injuring 37.5
- November 8 , 2001 – Russia : A nuclear waste train from Bulgaria crashes at midnight between the Krasnoyarsk and Kemerovo on the Trans-Siberian railway. 14 of the 20 tanker-wagons derail and the line is closed for about 12 hours. 1 km of track is damaged.6
- and derails at the town of Orestiada, near the Bulgaria n border. Temperatures fall to −10° C .7
- leak. Seven of 15 Tank Car s rupture, releasing more than 750,000 liters (200,000 US 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.8
- near Durban . 22 die, of which 16 are children.9
- February 20 , 2002 – Al Ayatt Train Disaster , Egypt : A train packed to double capacity catches fire, 373 die.
- Auto-Train derail near Crescent City. 4 die,, 142 are injured. The National Transportation Safety Board 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 $8.3 million.10
- train collides with a Trailer ; about 20 cars carrying plastic pellets, Benzene , Glycol and Hexane catch fire, forcing the evacuation of nearly 200 residents.
- May 10 , 2002 – Potters Bar Rail Crash , north of London , England , United Kingdom : a northbound train derails at high speed; 7 die, 11 seriously injured.
- May 13 , 2002 – Jaunpur Train Crash , 12 people die when a passenger train derails and crashes in Uttar Pradesh . An inquest blames sabotage.
- , passenger carriages, separated from a train also carrying freight, run away and smash into a cement train, killing 200.
- station, killing 14 people.
- June 24 , 2002 – Igandu Train Disaster , Tanzania : Nearly 300 die when a passenger train rolls backwards into a goods train.
- at 1:55 PM while traveling at 60 mph (100 km/h) near milepost 11.78. Several cars go down an embankment and four Superliners overturn against trees. 16 people are seriously injured and 79 people suffer from minor injuries. The misalignment was determined to be caused by improperly tamped ballast and excessive speed in the 96°F (35°C) sunny weather. "Slow orders" were imposed on passenger trains in the area on very hot days following this accident.
- after a brake failure on one of the trains. A tank car loaded with 1-Chlor-2,3-epoxypropan explodes, contaminating the station and exposing 96 firemen to carcinogenic fumes. 11
- September 9 , 2002 – Rafiganj Rail Disaster . Over 130 die when a passenger train derails and falls into the Dhave River in Bihar because of sabotaged tracks.12
- test train derail near Federal Circle. The train's lone occupant, a train operator testing the automated equipment, is crushed to death by the cement blocks inside the first car. The cement blocks were used to evenly distribute the weight inside the car, simulating the weight of customers when in passenger service. When the train derailed, the cement blocks collapsed onto the operator.
- December 21 , 2002 – Kurnool Train Crash , 20 die when a passenger train derails in Andhra Pradesh , the result of sabotage.
- and dies; the train speeds out of control and derails on a curve, overturning several cars and killing 6 passengers.
- February 2 , 2003 – Dete Train Crash , Zimbabwe : Two trains collide, derailing and catching fire, killing over 40. {Link without Title}
- trains, killing some 200.
- causes the driver to lose control and the train plummets into a valley. 17 die, 173 injured.
- passenger train has a Heart Attack , Runs Through A Red Signal , collides Head-on with a freight train; the driver is killed, six passengers are seriously injured. The driver kept his foot on the Dead Man's Switch during his heart attack and the slow speed of the train did not trigger the Automatic Safety System (one of its major design flaws), so the train did not stop.
- to Nagykanizsa hits the bus. 33 tourists are killed.
- May 15 , 2003 – Ladhowal Train Fire , A passenger train catches fire, 38 die near Ladhowal in the Punjab . {Link without Title}
- June 3 , 2003 , Albacete Train Crash – 19 die in a train collision in Albacete , Southern Spain . {Link without Title}
- June 11 , 2003 – 6 die and 25 are injured when two passenger trains collide head-on near Schrozberg , Germany . {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}
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- July 7 , 2003 – Between Evesham and Pershore , Worcestershire , England , United Kingdom , a First Great Western train collides with a minibus on a level crossing, killing 3 people in the minibus.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3989465.stm
- October 14 – at Yingge , Taipei County , Taiwan , a bus carrying students on a field trip collides with a south-bound train, killing 4 and injuring 42.
- February 18 , 2004 – Nishapur Train Disaster , Iran : A train derails and catches fire, exploding hours later. About 300 die.
- March 11 , 2004 – 2004 Madrid Train Bombings : 191 die when bombs are detonated on four commuter trains in Madrid. {Link without Title}
- April 22 , 2004 – Ryongchon Disaster , North Korea : Over 50 die and more than 1000 injured when an explosion takes place.
- train south of Penrith and rolled down the falling gradient until it struck and killed 4 workmen in a team repairing the line at Tebay, between Oxenholme and Penrith . The owner of the sleeper transporter truck (a contractor working for Network Rail) is prosecuted. ''(Source- The Metro newspaper (UK), March 2006).''
- April 16 , 2004 - Temelli, Turkey : An overnight Izmir to Ankara express hits a truck in Temelli, near Ankara, as it crossed a level-crossing. 7 to 10 children die and 2 to 5 more injured according to various reports at the time. {Link without Title}
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- July 23 , 2004 - Turkey : 36 die as a speeding train derails between Ankara and Istanbul. {Link without Title} {Link without Title} {Link without Title} {Link without Title} {Link without Title} {Link without Title} http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3918823.stm]http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/archives.php?id=37289] {Link without Title}
- August 4 , 2004 – Near Tavsancil , Turkey : 6 die and 85 injured when a train driver falls asleep at the controls, goes through a red light and hits a stationary train head on.
- September 10 , 2004 – Nosaby, near Kristianstad , Skåne , Sweden : A heavy truck is caught between the barriers at a level crossing, and is hit by a passenger train. Two aboard the train die, 47 are injured. The truck driver was found guilty of not attempting to move the vehicle away from the level crossing, and was sentenced to 14 months' imprisonment.
- Eight of ten cars of the Toki No. 325 train on the Jōetsu Shinkansen were derailed. None of the 154 passengers were killed or injured.
- train loses its brakes, rolls backwards into the Woodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan Station, and hits a revenue train servicing the station. No one dies, 20 people are injured.
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- November 10 , 2004 – Ankara , Turkey : 37 die when an express train hits a truck on a crossing near Ankara and derailed.
- November 14 , 2004 – Ankara , Turkey : 15 die and 45 injured as another express train derails near Ankara.
- November 15 , 2004 – Bundaberg Tilt Train Derailment , Berajondo (near Bundaberg ), Queensland , Australia : The world's fastest narrow-gauge train derails at 108 km/h. Nobody is killed or permanently injured. The accident has been blamed on the train travelling too fast on a curved line.
- November 29 , 2004 – Richland, Florida : Two CSXT freight trains collide in early morning fog at Vitis Junction, killing one and injuring three. {Link without Title}
- created by the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake .
- ; 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} – 10 die, the engine crew, and nearby citizens who are caught in toxic gas cloud released from a damaged tank car.
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- January 12 , 2005 – Fort St. John, Winnipeg. 5 cars of a CN propane tanker train de-rail, causing a major evacuation.
- January 17 , 2005 – Bangkok- only 140 injured passengers, resulting from a collision of 2 metro tains in the new MRT Blue-line.
- 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 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 die.
- February 28 2005 – A chlorine tanker train derails due to brake failure after they were wrongly set to "empty". The line was closed for 2 weeks.
- April 14 2005 – Solon Springs, Wisconsin : 19 cars of a CN train derail and cause a forest fire.
- April 15 2005 – in Bratislava-Petržalka railway station in the 11.00, the Austrian ÖBB railway company's international superexpress train IC 402 Gerlach Bratislava-Vienna hits a car - 1 member injured.
- April 21 , 2005 – Vadodara Rail Collision , India : collision between freight and passenger express train; 18 are killed.
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- April 25 , 2005 – Amagasaki Rail Crash , Amagasaki, Hyogo , Japan : A train derailed on sharp curve and smashed into an apartment building. 107 die, 549 are injured. Investigation showed the driver was speeding because of a slight delay.
- ; at least 35 die, all on the bus.
- May 5 , 2005 – Galt, Illinois , United States - A Union Pacific train derails and destroys the 140ft Transcontinental mainline bridge at Elkhorn creek. AP Article
- May 9 , 2005 – Biaora , India : 8 die when a bullock cart is hit at a level-crossing in Biaora.
- crashes in to another passenger train at Bandar Lampung station and derails. 7 children die and just under 200 were injured. Human error was blamed for the accident and many of the dead were passengers clinging on to the sides of the Palembang train. The Indonesian government begins a crack down on people clinging on to the exteriors of trains as a means of travel.
- 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 from the site. {Link without Title}
- was briefly contaminated. The crash was blamed on poor track maintenance.
- -bound Passenger Train collides with a coal delivery truck near Revadim , about south of Tel Aviv . At least 7 die and more than 200 are injured. (CBS)
- and Jakata ploughed into the back of another train that was waiting in the station after a previous train had broken down outside the same station. Heavy rain was blamed for reducing visibility and most of the dead were seated on the train's roof.
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- 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 14 , 2005 – Gliwice , Poland crashed two truck train in the railway stations entry, one motorman killed, one motorman seriously wounded.
- July 26 , 2005 – Vienna Rail Crash - Passenger Train of the ÖBB crashed of the cargo train, injuring 43.
- , killing 13.
- to Changchun passes a sabotaged Railway Signal and collides with a freight train, killing 5 passengers. Officials state that some wiring was stolen from a nearby signal box causing the signal to malfunction. (Trains)
- train derail into the Cheakamus River in northern British Columbia . 40,000 litres of Caustic Soda enter the river, killing over 500,000 fish and greatly damaging the surrounding ecosystem. {Link without Title}
- commuter train traveling into Chicago derails, killing two and injuring 83.
- October 3 , 2005 – Datia Train Crash , Datia , Madhya Pradesh , India : 16 die when a train travelling at six times the speed limit derails. (BBC News)
- October 23 , 2005 – Bari province, Apulia region, Italy . Eurostar Italia train 9410, running from Taranto to Milan , is derailed between Acquaviva Delle Fonti and Sannicandro Di Bari when subsidence due to heavy rain causes a bridge to collapse under it, leaving two bare rails spanning the 12 m deep ravine. The train completes the crossing and comes to rest with its rear end suspended over the void. Nobody dies.http://www.corriere.it/Primo_Piano/Cronache/2005/10_Ottobre/23/maltempo.shtmlhttp://qn.quotidiano.net/2005/10/23/pages/artI5389417.html
- October 29 , 2005 – Veligonda Rail Disaster , Veligonda , Andhra Pradesh , India : At least 114 die and many more are injured when part of the track is swept away by a flood, causing a train to derail. (BBC News)
- November 23 , 2005 - At 6.30 am a train hit a truck on a level crossing between Tarsus and Mersin . 9 died and 18 were injured.http://newsfromrussia.com/accidents/2005/11/23/68h37.html
- 26 November , 2005 – Moy near Inverness , Scotland , United Kingdom . 9 are airlifted to hospital when a First ScotRail Class 170 DMU derails after hitting debris from a landslide caused by a local blizzard.
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- and derails. A passenger and the truck driver die, and 20 on the train are injured.
- March 10 , 2006 – Hualien , Taiwan - 5 railroad workers die when hit by a southbound train.
- , 18, the reigning Miss Deaf Texas, is killed by the snowplow on a 65-car Union Pacific freight train while trespassing on the tracks and text-messaging her parents. The train sounded its horn repeatedly and attempted to apply the emergency brakes but could not stop in time.14
- , 18, High School football player, struck and killed by CSX freight train while trespassing on the tracks. 2 CSX trains were traveling at once. Patrick was able to escape being struck by one, but was struck by the other.15
- April 15 , 2006 – Gubuck , Java : 13 die and 26 are injured as two trains collide and wreckage falls into a paddy field. One Swiss man was among the injured. Human error by the driver was officially blamed.16
- VLocity high-speed train is derailed when struck by an 18 wheeler truck, killing 2 and injuring 28 on the Ballarat to Ararat line.17
- May 25 , 2006 – Lismore, Victoria : truck fails to stop at level crossing, derailing trains and causing massive pileup of wagons. Australian Transport Safety Bureau, Rail Occurrence Investigation No. 2006/004 Mist/fog is factor.
- , Turkey , killing 7 and injuring 19.32
- train derails, leading to five fatalities.33
- February 6 , 2007 – Hungary : Train collision between Almásfüzítő and Komárom stations. An EU Regio passenger train hit the end of a freight with speed of 101 km/h. The driver of the passenger train has died, 4 passengers injured.
- ") near Deewana, about 80 kms north of Delhi , at around 23:55 local time.3435
- Pendolino service from London Euston to Glasgow Central derails at Grayrigg Cottage near Oxenholme , Cumbria . One woman dies. A Set Of Points is thought to be the cause of the accident; the West Coast Main Line is closed for several days.36
- February 28 , 2007 – A wind blows 10 passenger rail cars off the track near Turfan , China , killing 3 passengers and seriously injuring 2 others.3738
- April 16 , 2007 – A passenger train crashes into a minibus carrying local council officials at an unmanned rail crossing in southern India, killing 11 and injuring another 12 in the vehicle. Seven of the injured were hospitalized in serious condition. The vehicle was carrying 23 people.
- June 5 , 2007 – Kerang Train Crash , Victoria , Australia . A B-Double truck collided with a Melbourne-bound passenger train 6 kilometres north of Kerang at the Murray Valley Highway level crossing, killing 11 rail passengers and injuring 23.
- June 15 , 2007 – Two trains collided on the Italian island of Sardinia , killing 3. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6755491.stm
- July 15 – Platform-edge door in Shanghai has caused a fatal accident. A man tried to force his way onto a crowded train at the station for the Shanghai Indoor Stadium, but failed. When the doors closed, he was trapped between the platform doors and the train, leading to his death.http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/16/asia/AS-GEN-China-Subway-Accident.php
- July 16 - 17 , 2007 – Two Amtrak Silver Star trains on the Tampa to Miami route crash into automobiles and derail in two separate instances, one in Lakeland and one in Plant City . Four people were killed in the first wreck; one was killed in the second accident. The casualties were in the cars that collided with the trains; nobody on either train was seriously injured. http://news.tbo.com/news/metro/MGBU42N994F.html
- July 16 , 2007 – 15 carriages from a train carrying yellow phosphur derail and catch on fire, releasing toxic fumes affecting 14 villages in a 90 sq km area. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6907177.stm
- July 25 , 2007 – A eastbound Elgin, Joliet And Eastern Railway freight train hits 2 people laying across the tracks south of Naperville and Aurora, Illinois. One 18-year old male was killed and a unidentified female was injured. Authorities say the incident is being investigated as a “possible suicide.” http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/napervillesun/news/485095,na26_trainaccident.article
- July 30 - Train crash in Caracas subway leaves 1 dead, 6 injured. Two subway trains collide in Venezuela's capital. The accident took place in a tunnel near the Plaza Sucre station in western Caracas, Civil Protection chief Antonio Rivero said. Subways are generally equipped with ATP and ATC so such an accident is hard to explain.
- August 1 , 2007 – Benaleka , Kasai-Occidental province, Democratic Republic Of The Congo . A passenger train derails killing about 100 people and injuring more than 200 others.39
- August 24 , 2007 – Two persons died, five are injured when a locomotive and a freight train collide near Čortanovci , Serbia . 41
- August 30 , 2007 – 8 passengers killed and 80 injured when a commuter train collides with an empty train at Nova Iguaçu , near Rio De Janeiro , Brazil . 42
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