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Notable historic train accidents
19th C:				1830s	1840s	1850s	1860s	1870s	1880s	1890s
20th C:	1900s	1910s	1920s	1930s	1940s	1950s	1960s	1970s	1980s
1990s:	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
2000s:	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
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1830s

Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg September 15 1830 – England: William Huskisson becomes first passenger train death. Killed by Stephenson's Rocket at the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
Image:Flag of the United States.svg June 17 1831 – Charleston, South Carolina, United States: After the pressure safety valve is tied down by one of the train's crew, the Best Friend of Charleston suffers a boiler explosion killing the crew.
Image:Flag of the United States.svg July 25 1832 – Boston, Massachusetts, United States: A cable snaps on an incline of the Granite Railway.

1840s

Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg December 24 1841 – Sonning cutting, England: Eight passengers killed and seventeen injured when a Paddington to Bristol train ran into a landslide caused by heavy rain. The extent of the casualties in this accident called into question the practice of mixing passenger and freight wagons in fast trains.

1850s

Image:Canadian Red Ensign.png March 12 1855 – Desjardins Canal Bridge train disaster, Ontario, Canada: Ninety passengers boarded a train from Toronto, Ontario en route to Hamilton, Ontario. As the train approached its destination, the bridge spanning the Desjardins Canal collapsed as the train derailed. 70 passengers died from trauma or drowning and exposure after being thrown into Cootes Paradise.
Image:Flag of the United States.svg November 1 1855 – Gasconade Bridge train disaster, St. Louis, Missouri, United States: With more than 600 passengers aboard the Pacific Railroad excursion train celebrating the railway line's opening, outside St. Louis, Missouri the bridge collapsed and the locomotive plus 12 of the 13 attached cars plunged into the Gasconade River. Over 30 people died and hundreds were seriously injured.

1860s

Image:Canadian Red Ensign.png June 29 1864 – Beloeil, Quebec, Canada: 99 killed when an immigrant train failed to stop at an open swing bridge and fell into the Richelieu River. May also be called St-Hilaire train disaster.
Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg June 9 1865 – Staplehurst, United Kingdom: 10 killed, 49 injured, Charles Dickens is amongst the survivors.
Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg August 20 1868 - Abergele train disaster, Wales: passenger train collides with runaway goods wagons and their load of paraffin explodes. 33 dead, engine driver badly burned.

1870s

Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg September 10 1874 – Norwich (Norfolk), United Kingdom: 25 people were killed when a communication error caused a mail train and an express passenger train to meet in a head-on collision on a single-line section. The accident led directly to the introduction of automatic control systems to manage traffic on single-track railways.
Image:Flag of the United States.svg December 29 1876 – Ashtabula River Railroad bridge disaster, Ashtabula, Ohio, United States: The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Train No. 5, The Pacific Express, collapsed the Ashtabula River bridge, dropping 11 passenger cars into a fire started by the car stoves. Of the 159 people onboard, 64 were injured and 92 were killed.
Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg December 28 1879 – Scotland: The Tay Rail Bridge collapses in a violent storm while a train is crossing it. 75 lives are lost. William Topaz McGonagall produces his epic poem The Tay Bridge Disaster to commemorate the event.

1880s

Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg June 12 1889 – The Armagh rail disaster occurs near Armagh, Northern Ireland; runaway carriages collided with a following train, killing 88, and spurring the UK Parliament to pass the Regulation of Railways Act 1889, mandating improved brake and signal systems.

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1890s

Image:Flag of the United States.svg April 19, 1891 – Kipton, Ohio, United States: A passenger train and a freight train collide just east of the Kipton depot, 8 dead. This accident was attributed to one of the engineers' watches having stopped and being four minutes behind, and led to the adoption of quality control standards for railroad-grade watches in the United States.
Image:Flag of the United States.svg December 4, 1891 – East Thompson, Connecticut, United States: Four passenger trains collide.
Image:Flag of France.svg October 22 1895 – Gare Montparnasse, Paris, France: express train overran buffer stop and crossed more than 30 m of concourse before plummetting through a window.
Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Easter Monday, April 6 1896 – Llanberis, Wales: On the opening day of the Snowdon Mountain Railway, locomotive No. 1 "L.A.D.A.S." ran away and derailed before plummetting down a steep slope where it was destroyed. The driver and fireman jumped clear and the carriages were stopped by the guard. One passenger jumped off the moving train and fell beneath the wheels. He later died from his injuries. The line then closed for over a year before re-opening on 19th April 1897.
Image:Uganda flag large.png March through December 1898 – Tsavo maneaters, Uganda: about 140 rail workers building a bridge over the Tsavo River are mauled by lions.

1900s

Image:Flag of the United States.svg 1900 – Wellington near Cascade Tunnel, Washington, United States: More than 100 are killed when a snow avalanche pushes two trains off a cliff.
Image:Flag Germany 1871.png 1902 – Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany: Serious buffer stop collision inspires development of Rawie range of energy-absorbing buffer stops.
Image:Flag of France.svg August 1903 – Paris Metro train fire, France: fire on Paris Métro, 84 killed
Image:Old97Wreck.jpg Image:Flag of the United States.svg September 27, 1903 – Wreck of the Old 97, Danville, Virginia, United States: A southbound Southern Railway passenger train derails on a trestle in Danville; 11 people are killed.
Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 30 June 1906 – Salisbury rail crash, Salisbury, England: Racing express train collides with a milk train on a sharp curve, 28 killed (24 passengers, 4 crew).
Image:Canadian Red Ensign.png September 21 1906 – Napanee, Ontario, Canada: A Grand Trunk Railway passenger train hits a stopped freight train at a crossover in Napanee, Ontario; the engineer stayed at the controls trying to slow his train as much as possible and became the only fatality. The train's passengers later erected a monument in the engineer's honor.
Image:Flag of the United States.svg September 15 1907, Canaan, New Hampshire, United States: Quebec to Boston wreck; 25 people killed, with as many seriously injured.
Image:Flag of Australia.svg April 20 1908 – Sunshine train disaster, Melbourne, Australia: Rear-end collision, kills 44 and injures around 400.
Image:Flag of the United States.svg April 12 1909 – Gary, Indiana, United States: A westbound Chicago South Shore & South Bend Railroad train runs past a meet point and causes a head-on collision with the eastbound train.
Image:Flag of the United States.svg June 19 1909 – Shadyside, Indiana, United States: An eastbound Chicago South Shore & South Bend Railroad train runs past a meet point and causes a head-on collision with the westbound train.

1910s

Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg December 24 1910 – Hawes Junction train disaster, Cumbria, England: Busy signalman forgets about light engines on main line, and express signalled onto it.
Image:Flag of Sweden.svg 1912 – A train ran into a still passenger train in Malmslätt causing 22 deaths and 12 injuries.
Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg May 22 1915 – In the Quintinshill rail crash, four trains including a troop train collide causing 227 fatalities and injuring 246 people at Quintinshill, Gretna Green, Scotland; the accident is found to be the result of non-standard operating practices during a shift change at a busy junction.
Image:Flag of France.svg December 12 1917 – A military train derails at the entrance of the Fréjus Rail Tunnel in Modane, France. 543 killed.
Image:Flag of Sweden.svg 1917 – An incorrectly set switch causes a passenger train to run into a pumping house killing 11 and injuring 40.
Image:Flag of the United States.svg June 22 1918 – Hammond circus train wreck, near Hammond, Indiana, United States: An empty troop train collides with a parked circus train. 86 killed, 127 injured.
Image:1918trainwreck.jpg Image:Flag of the United States.svg July 9 1918 – Great train wreck of 1918, Nashville, Tennessee, United States: Two Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad trains collide head-on. 101 killed, 171 injured. Deadliest train accident in United States history.
Image:Flag of Sweden.svg October 1 1918 – The Getå train disaster, the most fatal train accident in the history of rail transport in Sweden. A passenger train runs of the rail because of a landslide in Getå (currently Norrköping Municipality). 41 died and 41 were injured.
Image:Flag of the United States.svg November 1 1918 – The Malbone Street Wreck occurs on the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT) in New York City when an inexperienced motorman (pressed into service due to a strike by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers) drives one of the system's subway trains too quickly into a curve, derailing the train in a tunnel, killing 97 and injuring over 100.
Image:Flag of Australia.svg 1910s – Exeter crossing loop collision, New South Wales, Australia

1920s

Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg January 26, 1921 – Abermule train collision: faulty operation of train tablet leads to head on collision killing 17 people.
Image:Flag of the United States.svg September 27 1923 – near Glenrock, Wyoming, United States: Following soon after the washout of Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's bridge over Coal Creek, a passenger train falls through the washout, killing 30 of the train's 66 passengers. The accident is the worst railroad accident in Wyoming's history. [1]
Image:Flag of Australia.svg 1928 – Lindfield train disaster, Sydney, Australia: collision when train speeds after stop-and-proceed-at-red signal.
Image:Flag of the United States.svg Thanksgiving, 1928 – Montezuma, Georgia, United States: a car stalled on the tracks kills a Columbus, Georgia, woman who, after taking her young niece to safety, returns to help her grandmother and grandfather when the train hits the car, killing all three.

1930s

Image:Flag Germany 1933.png December 22 1939 – Genthin, Germany: collision when train D180 drove into previous delayed and overcrowded train D10 from Berlin to Cologne. 278 killed, 453 injured. One of the worst train accidents in Germany.

1940s

Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 1940 – Norton Fitzwarren train disaster, England: a train driver misreads the signals on a four-track line, and drives his train off the end of the track.
Image:Canadian Red Ensign.png December 27 1942 – Almonte, Ontario, Canada: 36 people are killed and over 200 injured when a passenger train running late was struck from behind by a troop train.
Image:Flag of New Zealand.svg June 4 1943 – Hyde railway accident, New Zealand: Train derails at speed in a curved cutting, 21 killed, 47 injured.
Image:Flag of Spain.svg January 16 1944 – Accident in the Torro tunnel in Leon province, Spain. Over 500 killed.
Image:Flag of Norway.svg February 1944 – Train collision near Breifoss between Hol and Geilo, Norway, at the Bergensbanen line. 25 killed.
Image:Flag of Italy.svg March 3 1944 – Balvano, Italy: Over 500 people who stole a ride on a freight train die of carbon monoxide poisoning when the train stalls in a tunnel.
Image:Flag of the United States.svg July 6 1944 – Troop train crash near Jellico, Tennessee, United States: Passenger train derails due to excessive speed on defective track. 35 killed, 99 injured; all soldiers in U.S. Army en route to deployment.
Image:Flag of the United States.svg April 26 1946 – Naperville, Illinois, United States: Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's Advance Flyer, stopped in the station, is rammed by the railroad's Exposition Flyer. 45 killed, more than 100 injured.
Image:Flag of Australia.svg May 5 1947 – Camp Mountain train disaster, Queensland, Australia: A picnic train derails after taking a sharp curve too fast on the Dayboro line to the north-west of Brisbane. 16 killed.
Image:Canadian Red Ensign.png September 1 1947 – Dugald, Manitoba, Canada: A Canadian National Railway passenger train failed to take the siding and collided with the No. 4 Transcontinental that was standing on the main line. 31 people were killed.

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Image:Flag of the United States.svg 1948 – Los Angeles, California, United States: Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway's Super Chief crashes through a bumper at the end of track at Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal; the locomotive comes to rest dangling above the street at the end of the tracks.
Image:Flag of Poland.svg October 22 1949 – Dwor, Poland: The express train between Gdansk and Warszawa derails. Over 200 killed.

1950s

Image:Canadian Red Ensign.png November 21 1950 – Canoe River, British Columbia, Canada: A Canadian National Railway train carrying Korea-bound troops is given incorrect orders and collides with a passenger train, killing 21, including 17 soldiers.
Image:Flag of Norway.svg November 1950 – at Hjuksebø, Norway: Two goods trains get loose and crash with an express train, on the Sørlandsbanen line. 15 killed.
Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg October 8 1952 – Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash, United Kingdom: Three trains are involved in a crash that kills 112 and injures 340.
Image:Flag of the United States.svg January 15 1953 – Washington, DC, United States: The brakes fail on Pennsylvania Railroad's westbound Federal Express passenger 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.
Image:Flag of Australia.svg December 19 1953 – Sydenham Rail Disaster, Australia: an electric passenger train of the New South Wales Railways run into the rear of another electric train. Five people were killed and 748 injured.
Image:Flag of Czech Republic.svg December 24 1953 – Šakvice train disaster, Czechoslovakia: Express train whose crew fell asleep after several bottles of wine hits commuter train at a station, killing 106.
Image:Flag of New Zealand.svg December 24 1953 – New Zealand: 151 people die in the Tangiwai disaster, when the Tangiwai Railway Bridge over the Whangaehu River collapses as the overnight express train between Wellington and Auckland, New Zealand, 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.
Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg January 23 1955 – Sutton Coldfield train disaster, England: A passenger train rounds a sharp curve too fast and derails; 17 people die as a result.
Image:Flag of Mexico.svg April 3 1955 – Guadalajara, Mexico: A train falls into a canyon. 300 killed.
Image:Flag of the United States.svg August 22 1955 – Spring City Train Disaster, Spring City, Tennessee, United States: School bus disregards crossing signal and is struck by freight train. 11 dead, 39 hurt, all the dead are school children.
Image:Flag of the United States.svg January 22 1956 – Los Angeles, California, United States: Santa Fe Railroad's San Diegan passenger train derails just outside Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal. The accident is announced over the radio and so many doctors, nurses and sightseers drive to the scene that it causes one of the first Sig Alerts.
Image:Flag of Finland.svg March 15 1957 – near Kuurila, Finland: Steam-hauled overnight passenger train collides head-on with DMU express train. 26 were killed and 60 injured in the nation's worst peace-time train crash.
Image:Flag of Pakistan.svg September 29 1957 – An express train crashes into an oil train at Montgomery, West Pakistan. 250 killed.
Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 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 destroyed a support column of a railway bridge, causing parts of the bridge to collapse onto the wreck, 90 people are killed.
Image:Flag of Germany.svg September 1958 – Drachenfels Railway, Konigswinter, Germany: A rack railway train derails, killing 17.

1960s

Image:Flag of Czech Republic.svg November 16 1960 – Stéblová train disaster, Czechoslovakia: 118 are killed and 110 injured in a head-on collision.
Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg January 8 1962 – The Harmelen train disaster, the worst railway accident in the history of The Netherlands, occurs when one passenger train driver misses a warning signal in fog and passes a red signal to collide nearly head-on with another passenger train. 93 people died.
Image:Flag of Australia.svg 1963 – Geurie crossing loop collision: A train pulled by a 265-tonne Beyer-Garrett 6003 locomotive in loop was standing foul of main line, causing collision with NSWGR C38 class No.3817. Both locos were written off. No track circuiting.
Image:Flag of Japan.svg 1963 – Yokohama rail crash, Japan: two commuter trains hit derailed freight train.
Image:Flag of Norway.svg June 1966 – Two trains collide at Grefsen, Oslo, Norway. One driver gets killed.
Image:Flag of Norway.svg October 1966 – Two passenger trains collide at Valebø, Norway. One driver gets killed.
Image:East Germany flag.png July 6 1967 – Langenweddingen, East Germany near Magdeburg: ca. 140 killed, mainly children. Train collides with lorry carrying 15,000 litres of light petrol.
Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg November 5 1967 - Hither Green rail crash, England: 49 people are killed and 78 people injured as an express train from Hastings to Charing Cross derails at Hither Green.
Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg January 6 1968 – Hixon rail crash, England: A Manchester-London express strikes a vehicle carrying a 120 ton transformer at an automatic level crossing. Eleven people were killed and twenty seven seriously injured.
Image:Flag of Norway.svg July 1969 – Two iron ore trains collide at the Ofotbanen line, Norway. One driver is killed and one is injured.
Image:Flag of Australia.svg 1969 – Violet Town railway disaster, Australia: a head-on collision on a single line, no ATP; 9 killed

1970s

Image:Flag of Argentina.svg February 1 1970 – Buenos Aires, Argentina: An express train crashes into a standing train. 236 killed.
Image:Flag of Norway.svg June 1970 – Oslo, Norway: A train from Skien collides with a shunting locomotive at Lysaker. 30 injured.
Image:Flag of Norway.svg December 1970 – Oslo, Norway: A goods train loses its brakes and crashes into the platform at Østbanen station. The driver is killed.
Image:Flag of Mexico.svg October 6 1972 – Saltillo, Mexico: A train with pilgrims derails and catches fire. 208 killed.
Image:Flag of Norway.svg February 22 1975 – The Tretten Crash, Tretten, Norway: A passenger train from Oslo collides with an express train from Trondheim. 27 killed.
Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg February 28 1975 - Moorgate tube crash, England: A London Underground train fails to stop at a cul-de-sac tunnel at Moorgate station, 43 people are killed.
Image:Flag of Norway.svg December 22 1975 – Norway: The day train from Bodø to Trondheim, Norway derails. The driver is killed.
Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg May 4 1976 – near Schiedam, the Netherlands: An international train collides with a local train, killing 24 and injuring 11.
Image:Flag of Australia.svg January 18 1977 – Granville railway disaster, Australia: 83 die when a train derails and hits a bridge support.
Image:Flag of Norway.svg Summer 1977 – near Mo i Rana, Norway: A passenger train at the Nordlandsbanen line derails. The driver is killed.
Image:Flag of the United States.svg February 22 1978 – Waverly Tank Car Explosion, Waverly, Tennessee, United States: Two derailed cars containing Liquified Petroleum Gas violently explode on Louisville and Nashville Railroad. 15 fatalities and 56 injuries result from fiery explosion. Numerous buildings in Waverly's business district destroyed.
Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg October 22 1979 – Invergowrie rail crash, Scotland: starting signal failed to return completely to stop, giving the following train a false clear indication.
Image:Flag of Canada.svg November 10 1979 – Mississauga, Canada: tank cars 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 American history, after the 2005 evacuation of New Orleans, Louisiana due to Hurricane Katrina.

1980s

Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg July 25 1980 – Winsum, the Netherlands: Two trains collide on a single track between Groningen and Roodeschool resulting in 9 deaths and 21 injured.
Image:Flag of Ireland.svg August 1 1980 – Buttevant, County Cork, Ireland: A train crashes into a siding at 70mph on the main Dublin - Cork line resulting in 18 deaths and 62 injured. This remains Ireland's worst transportation disaster.
Image:Flag of India.svg June 6 1981 – Bihar train disaster, India: Hundreds are killed (300-800) when a train falls into a river.
Image:Flag of the United States.svg January 21 1985 – Gary, Indiana, United States: During a period of track maintenance, the Chicago SouthShore and South Bend Railroad dispatcher sends two trains onto the same track segment at the same time, causing a head-on collision of the two trains.
Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 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.
Image:Flag of Canada.svg February 8 1986 – Hinton train collision, Dalehurst, Alberta, Canada: 23 lives lost when VIA Rail passenger train and CN freight train collide head-on.
Image:Flag of the United States.svg October 30 1986 – Gary, Indiana, United States: A Chicago SouthShore and South Bend Railroad train strikes a flatbed truck that drove around the crossing gates.
Image:Flag of the United States.svg January 4 1987 – Chase, Maryland, United States: An Amtrak train collides with a set Conrail freight locomotives and derails, killing 15 passengers and an engineer (Chase, Maryland rail wreck).
Image:Flag of the United States.svg April 1 1987 – Burnham, Indiana, United States: A rusted rail trips a signal incorrectly on the Chicago SouthShore and South Bend Railroad causing a hopper to foul the mainline; one of the railroad's passenger trains hits the hopper.
Image:Clapham Junction Railway Accident - Hidden Report cover - HMSO.jpg Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg December 12 1988 – Clapham Junction rail crash, London, England: wrong side failure, 35 dead, more than 100 injured
Image:Flag of the United States.svg January 14 1988 – near Thompsontown, PA, United States: Head-End Collision of Conrail Freight Trains UBT-506 and TV-61.
Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg March 4 1989 – Purley Station rail crash, London, England: As one train crosses over from one track to another, a second train runs a red signal and collides with the first train; the accident leaves six people dead and 94 injured.
Image:Flag of Russia.svg June 4 1989 – Ufa train disaster, Russia: Hundreds are killed (400-1000) when two trains pass near a leaking natural gas line, which explodes.

1990s

1990

Image:Flag of Pakistan.svg January 4 1990 – An overcrowded passenger train collides with a standing freight train in the Sindh province, Pakistan. Over 210 killed.
Image:Flag of Norway.svg April 16 1990 – Two local passenger trains collide at Lysaker, Oslo, Norway. 5 killed.
Image:Flag of Australia.svg June 6 1990 – Cowan rail crash, Cowan, New South Wales, Australia: a special passenger train failed while attempting to climb the steep gradient from the Hawkesbury River to Cowan.

1991

Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg January 8 1991 – London, England: A passenger train hits the buffers at Cannon Street Station. 1 person killed. 542 persons injured.
Image:Flag of Norway.svg January 18 1991 – A passenger train at the Raumabanen line derails at Bjorli, Norway. 2 killed.
Image:Flag of Japan.svg April, 1991 – Shigaraki train disaster, Shigaraki, Shiga, Japan: 42 people were killed.

1993

Image:Flag of the United States.svg January 18 1993 – Chicago, Illinois, United States: The eastbound Chicago SouthShore and South Bend Railroad train number 7 runs a red signal and is hit by westbound train number 12; 7 passengers die in the accident.
Image:Flag of South Korea.svg March 28 1993 – Busan train distater, Busan, South Korea: An express train derailed and 79 people were killed.
Image:Flag of the United States.svg September 22 1993 – Big Bayou Conot train disaster, Alabama, United States: Barge causes bridge to twist, plunging the train into the water, killing 47.
Image:Flag of Norway.svg October 3 1993 – A local train collides with a shunting locomotive at Nordstrand, Oslo, Norway. 5 killed.

1994

Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 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.
Image:Flag of the United States.svg August 4 1994 – Batavia, New York, United States: Amtrak'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.
Image:Flag of Angola.svg September 22 1994 – Damaged brakes make a train crash into a canyon in Tolunda, Angola. 300 killed.
Image:Flag of the United States.svg August 21 1994 – Liberty, Indiana, United States: Freight train traveling 55 mph crashes into a pickup truck on a private driveway, killing 2 passengers and injuring 3.

1995

Image:Flag of India.svg August 20 1995 – A passenger train collides with a train that had stopped after it had run over a cow in Firozabad, India. 358 killed.
Image:Flag of the United States.svg October 9 1995 – Palo Verde derailment, Arizona, United States: One person is killed and 78 injured when Amtrak Sunset Limited derailed by saboteurs.

1996

Image:Flag of Australia.svg January 14, 1996 – Hines Hill train collision, Australia: Signal Passed At Danger at a crossing loop causes a head-on collision.
Image:Flag of the United States.svg February 16, 1996 – a MARC commuter train bound for Washington Union Station collided with an outgoing Amtrak train and erupted in flames on a snow-swept stretch of track in Silver Spring, Maryland. The crash left 11 people dead aboard the MARC train. Three died of injuries suffered in the impact, but the rest were killed by smoke and flames. The MARC engineer and two conductors were among the dead.
Image:Flag of the United States.svg March 4, 1996 – Weyauwega derailment, Wisconsin, United States: A broken turnout derails a Wisconsin Central train carrying liquefied petroleum gas and propane. The town of Weyauwega, Wisconsin, is evacuated as the fire burns for most of the 18-day evacuation.
Image:Flag of Finland.svg April 21, 1996 – Passenger train operating in heavy fog derails at Jokela, Finland due to over-speeding through a slow-speed turnout. The locomotive driver and three passengers were killed, and 75 were injured.

1997

Image:Flag of Australia.svg 23 October, 1997 – Beresfield rail disaster, Australia: coal train collides with the rear of an earlier coal train and blocks all tracks causing collisions with other trains - SPAD.
Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 19 September 1997 – Southall rail crash, London, United Kingdom. Passenger train collides with a freight train, killing six.

1998

Image:Flag of Finland.svg 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.
Image:Flag of Australia.svg 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.
Image:Ice image1 nf.jpg Image:Flag of Germany.svg June 3 1998 – Eschede train disaster, Germany: Part of a high-speed ICE train derails and strikes a bridge, killing 101.
Image:Flag of the United States.svg June 18 1998 – Chicago, Illinois, United States: The westbound Chicago SouthShore and South Bend Railroad train number 102 strikes a semi-truck that was stopped on a grade crossing.

1999

Image:Flag of the United States.svg March 15 1999 – Bourbonnais train accident, Bourbonnais, Illinois, United States: A southbound Amtrak train out of Chicago, Illinois, hits a loaded semi truck at a grade crossing and derails; the accident results in 11 fatalities and over 100 injuries.
Image:Flag of India.svg August 2 1999 – Two express trains collide head-on in Gauhati, India. Over 285 killed.
Image:Flag of Australia.svg August 18 1999 – Zanthus train collision, Australia: An engineman incorrectly throws a turnout turning the through train into a collision with a looped train.
Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg October 5 1999 – Ladbroke Grove (Paddington) rail disaster, United Kingdom: Two trains collide head-on, killing 31 and injuring 400.
Image:Flag of Australia.svg 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.

2000s

2000

Image:Flag of Norway.svg January 4 2000 – Åsta in Åmot, Norway: Two passenger trains collide on Rørosbanen killing 19 people.
Image:Flag of Germany.svg February 6 2000 – Bruehl, Germany: A night express train speeds in a construction area and derails at Bruehl station, 9 die.
Image:Flag of Japan.svg March 2000 – Tokyo train disaster, Japan: A Tokyo subway train derails and is hit by another train on the next track; four are killed and 33 are injured.
Image:Flag of Norway.svg April 5 2000 – Lillestrøm in Skedsmo, Norway: A freight train loses its brakes between Strømmen 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 casulties.
Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg October 17 2000 – Hatfield rail crash, United Kingdom: Part of a rail shatters as a passenger train passes over it; four people are killed, 70 are injured.
Image:Flag of Austria.svg November 11 2000 – Kaprun disaster, Austria: A funicular train catches fire in a tunnel, 155 die.

2001

Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg February 28 2001 – Selby rail crash, Selby, North Yorkshire, England: A driver on England's M62 motorway falls asleep at the wheel; his car leaves the road just before a bridge over the tracks, and 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.
Image:Flag of Belgium.svg March 27, 2001 – Pécrot rail crash, Pécrot, Belgium: Two passenger trains collide on the same track, killing 8 and injuring 12.
Image:Flag of the United States.svg November 15 2001 – Andersonville, Michigan (northwest of Detroit), United States: Two Canadian National Railway trains collide head-on.
Image:Flag of the United States.svg December 23 2001 – Rochester, New York, United States: An incorrect brake application on a CSX 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.

2002

Image:Flag of the United States.svg January 18 2002 – Minot, North Dakota, United States: A Canadian Pacific Railway 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 cars rupture, releasing 200,000+ gallons 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.
Image:Egypt flag 300.png February 20 2002 – Al Ayatt train disaster, Egypt: A train packed to double capacity catches fire, 373 die.
Image:Flag of Canada.svg May 2 2002 – Firmdale, Manitoba, Canada: An eastbound Canadian National 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.
Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg May 10 2002 – Potters Bar rail crash, north of London, England: a northbound train derailed at high speed; seven killed, 11 seriously injured.
Image:Flag of Tanzania.svg June 24 2002 – Igandu train disaster, Tanzania: Nearly 300 are killed when a passenger train rolls backwards into a goods train.

2003

Image:Flag of Australia.svg 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.
Image:Flag of South Korea.svg February 18 2003 – Daegu subway fire, South Korea: A mentally ill man starts a fire which engulfs two subway trains, killing some 200.
Image:Flag of Taiwan.svg March 1 2003 – Chiayi, Taiwan: The brake system of Alishan Forest Railway broke. The trains ran into valley. 17 were killed and 173 were injured.
Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg March 20 2003 – Roermond, Netherlands: A Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) passenger train collides head-on with a freight train; the NS driver was killed and 6 passengers were seriously injured.
Image:Flag of the United States.svg June 20 2003 – southern California, United States: A runaway Union Pacific freight train carrying lumber derails in the Los Angeles suburb of Commerce, California, destroying several homes and rupturing natural gas lines.
Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 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. The car driver, a woman with a baby, had apparently ignored or failed to see the crossing's warning lights, and was later arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving, but was found guilty only on a lesser charge of careless driving [2]. Some of the train passengers were treated for shock and minor injuries.

2004

Image:Iran flag large.png February 18 2004 – Nishapur, Iran: A train derails and catches fire, exploding hours later. About 300 are killed.
Image:Flag of North Korea.svg April 22 2004 – Ryongchon disaster, North Korea: Over 50 are killed and more than 1000 injured when an explosion takes place.
Image:Flag of Japan.svg October 23 2004 – Niigata Prefecture, Japan: A Joetsu Shinkansen train derails due to the Chuetsu Earthquake. It is the first time a Shinkansen derails while in service.
Image:Flag of the United States.svg November 3 2004 – Washington, DC, United States: One subway train lost its brakes and rolled backwards into the Woodley Park-Zoo Station, slamming into another train. Twenty people were injured in the crash.
Image:Uftonnervetcrash.jpg Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg November 6 2004 – Ufton Nervet rail crash, United Kingdom: A High Speed Train 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.
Image:Flag of Australia.svg 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.
Image:Sri lanka flag large.png December 26 2004 – "Queen of the Sea" train disaster, Telwatta, Sri Lanka: Approximately 1700 are killed in the world's worst rail disaster to date as a train is overwhelmed by a tsunami created by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.

2005

Image:Flag of the United States.svg January 6 2005 – Graniteville train disaster, South Carolina, United States: Still under investigation by the NTSB; preliminary findings are that a turnout is left lined for a siding when it should have been lined for the mainline, causing a through freight train to collide with a parked train. [3] - 9 killed.

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Image:Flag of Canada.svg January 12 2005 – Fort St. John, Manitoba (a suburb of Winnipeg), Canada: Five cars of a CN 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.
Image:Flag of Thailand.svg January 17 2005 – Bangkok, Thailand: Two metro trains on the near-new Blue line collide. About 140 passengers injured.
Image:Flag of the United States.svg January 26 2005 – Glendale train crash, California, United States: In what was originally thought to be a failed suicide attempt by an automobile driver, a southbound Metrolink 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.
Image:Flag of the United States.svg April 14 2005 – Solon Springs, Wisconsin, United States: Nineteen cars of a southbound Union Pacific train operating on Canadian National Railway south of Superior, Wisconsin, derail and cause a forest fire near the town of Solon Springs, Wisconsin.
Image:Flag of India.svg April 21 2005 – Vadodara rail collision, India: collision between freight and passenger express train - 18 killed.
Image:Flag of Japan.svg 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.
Image:Sri lanka flag large.png April 26 2005 – Polgahawela level crossing collision, Sri Lanka: a bus tries to beat the train at a level crossing; at least 35 people are killed, all on the bus.
Image:Flag of the United States.svg May 3 2005 – Galt (about 50 miles / 80 km east of the Quad Cities), Illinois, United States: Union Pacific Railroad's transconti