What was the Maurienne derailment between 800 and 1000 deaths?
The Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne derailment of December 12, 1917 was a railway accident involving a troop train carrying at least 1,000 French soldiers on their way home for leave from the Italian Front in World War I.
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The Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne derailment in France caused death of more than 700 people and remains the greatest rail disaster in French history. The accident occurred in December 1917 when a heavily loaded 350m long train derailed after suffering brake failure just before Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne station.
The worst rail disaster to hit Europe in a decade, the crash occurred on a stretch of the route from Athens to Thessaloniki, Greece's second city, when a passenger train, having been diverted on to a different track, collided head-on with a freight train.
1650. England – Whickham, County Durham. Two boys die when they are run over by a wagon on a wooden coal train way. While such tramway accidents are not generally listed as rail accidents (note the lack of accidents listed for the next 163 years) this is sometimes cited as the earliest-known railway accident.
There are about three train derailments per day. They usually aren't disasters The U.S. saw more than one thousand train derailments last year, but industry leaders say traveling by rail remains one of the safest methods of transportation.
In 1981, Bihar, India witnessed the deadliest train crash in the nation's history when a train derailed and plunged into the Bagmati River while crossing a bridge, resulting in the loss of 800 lives.
A derailment as the train descended the Maurienne valley on the Culoz–Modane railway caused a catastrophic crash and subsequent fire in which more than 675 died. It is still France's deadliest rail accident to date. Very steep slope of the railway line, insufficient braking power, overloaded coaches.
On 3 June 1998, an ICE 1 train on the Hannover-Hamburg railway near Eschede in Lower Saxony, Germany derailed and crashed into an overpass that crossed the railroad, which then collapsed onto the train.
The worst accident in subway history happened on November 1, 1918—Anthony Lewis, who was filling in for a striking motorman, lost control of the train while entering the tunnel at Malbone Street in Brooklyn on the Brighton Line, killing 97 people and injuring over 200.
Worst accidentsThe worst accident was the Quintinshill rail disaster in Scotland in 1915 with 226 dead and 246 injured. Second worst, and the worst in England, was the 1952 Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash, which killed 112 people and injured 340.
Probably the most miraculous tale of survival on this list was caught on CCTV in Melbourne, Australia. In October 2009, the person struck by the train was a six-month-old baby—and he lived through the incident.
In June 1998, a high-speed train traveling at 200 kph (125 mph) collided with a bridge at Eschede, Germany, causing it to collapse, a crash that killed 101 people and injured more than 100.