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* January 8, 1962 &ndash; ], The Netherlands: The ''']''', the worst railway accident in the history of The Netherlands, occurs when Utrecht - Rotterdam ] driver misses a warning signal in fog and ] to collide nearly ] with another passenger train from Rotterdam to Amsterdam. 91 people (including both drivers) die, 54 are injured of which 2 lost their lives while in hospital.<ref></ref> * January 8, 1962 &ndash; ], The Netherlands: The ''']''', the worst railway accident in the history of The Netherlands, occurs when Utrecht - Rotterdam ] driver misses a warning signal in fog and ] to collide nearly ] with another passenger train from Rotterdam to Amsterdam. 91 people (including both drivers) die, 54 are injured of which 2 lost their lives while in hospital.<ref></ref>
* March 3, 1962 – ''']'''. The ]&ndash;] train derails while entering the station of ], ], Italy, killing 13 and injuring 80.<ref name="quotidiano" /> * March 3, 1962 – ''']'''. The ]&ndash;] train derails while entering the station of ], ], Italy, killing 13 and injuring 80.<ref name="quotidiano" />

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This is a list of rail accidents from 1960 to 1969.

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1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
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1969
1950–1959 ← Lists of rail accidents → 1970–1979

1960s

1960

  • February 26, 1960 – Bogantungan, Queensland, Australia. The eastbound Midlander passenger train crashed into the flooded Medway Creek when the bridge collapsed due to damage caused by floods. Seven people die and 43 are injured.
  • March 1, 1960 – Rosedale, California, United States: An Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway passenger train derails after striking a heavy tanker truck carrying a large quantity of crude oil at a grade crossing. The wreckage immediately ignites and 14 people perish in the inferno.
  • May 15, 1960 – Leipzig, East Germany: Two local trains collide in Leipzig central station owing to a default in the electricity supply to the station which also affected the signalling and a following dispatcher error. 54 people die, 200 are injured.
  • November 16, 1960 – Stéblová train disaster, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic): 118 people are killed and 110 injured in a head-on collision.
  • November 29, 1960 – Lamont, Alberta, Canada: CN train collides with a school bus at a level crossing on the edge of town, killing 17 students.

1961

  • March 11, 1961 - 27 killed, 15 injured when a south-bound passenger train (#3001 Diesel Limited Express) smashed into a truck carrying soldiers at level crossing between Linfengyin (林鳳營) and Longtien (隆田), Tainan
  • April 18, 1961 - During single-line working, a passenger train is derailed between Laindon and Pitsea, Essex when a linesman clips trap points in the open position.
  • July 8, 1961 - 48 killed, 28 injured when a south-bound passenger train (#11 Limited Express) smashed into a bus at level crossing in Minxong (民雄), Chiayi.
  • July 16, 1961 – Singleton Bank rail crash: The 8:50 diesel multiple unit train from Colne to Fleetwood collided with the rear of a ballast train at about 45 miles per hour (72 km/h) near Weeton, Lancashire, England. Seven were killed (the driver and six passengers) and 116 were injured.
  • August 27, 1961 – Vrbno pod Pradědem, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic): Three freight carriages which ran away during shunting collide with a passenger train. 19 people killed, 17 injured.
  • September 2, 1961 – A train is derailed at Bournemouth Central, Dorset after overrunning signals.
  • October 26, 1961 – Two cars of a commuter train run by Oita Traffic Company (Oita Kotsu) are hit by a mudslide after heavy rain at Ōita, eastern Kyūshū, Japan, killing 31 people and injuring another 36. Most of the passengers are senior high school students.
  • December 14, 1961 – Auburn, Colorado, United States: The Union Pacific passenger train "City of Denver" en route to Denver collides with a school bus carrying 36 children bound for Delta and Arlington elementary schools, Meeker Junior High, and Greeley High. 20 of the children were killed, 16 children and the driver survived.
  • December 15, 1961 - A down freight train runs into the rear of another at Conington, Huntingdonshire during Permissive Block Working. An up freight train runs into the wreckage, followed a few minutes later by another up freight train.
  • December 23, 1961 – Fiumarella rail disaster: a Cosenza–Catanzaro train derails on a bridge near Catanzaro, Italy. 70 people die and 27 are injured.

1962

1962 Mikawashima Train Crash in Arakawa, Tokyo

1963

  • January 4, 1963 – An express train rams into rear of standing passenger train, crashing into eight passenger cars which explode and catch fire at Meghnagar, Madhya Pradesh, India. At least 38 people confirmed dead and injuring 90.
  • February 1, 1963 – Double-headed train rams into a passenger train, explodes and catches fire at Nogales, Veracruz, Mexico, killing 17 people and injuring 63.
  • May 27, 1963, – A Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway train from Hythe to New Romney, United Kingdom, hauled by Hercules suffers a fault in its brake system. The driver manages to get the train running, but at only 3 miles per hour (4.8 km/h). The train is run in to by the following train, hauled by Typhoon, derailing a number of carriages and causing a number of injuries.
  • July 13, 1963 – A Surabaya-Kertosono passenger train derails due to switching of rail at Surabaya, Java, Indonesia, killing at least 24 people and injuring 40.
  • August 2, 1963 – A suburban train derails on safety catch point at Piedras, Canelones, Uruguay, killing 40 people and injuring 70.
  • November 9, 1963 – Tsurumi rail accident: a twelve car Yokosuka-Tokyo commuter train collides with three cars of a freight train which had derailed, and hits head on the Tokyo-Zushi commuter train during slow speed, and crushing four passenger cars at Tsurumi–Shin-Koyasu, Yokosuka and Tokaido Line, Yokohama, Japan, killing at least 161 people, another 120 are injured.
  • December 5, 1963 – Mullingar, County Westmeath, Ireland - a broken down passenger train is run into by the locomotive sent to rescue it. Sixteen people are injured.
  • December 24, 1963 – Paládicspuszta, Szolnok, Hungary: A passenger train hits a freight train. 45 killed, 34 injured.

1964

  • January 4, 1964 – A commuter train collided with standing passenger train at Jajinci, Voždovac, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia, killing at least 66 people, and injuring at least 200.
  • February 1, 1964 – Altamirano rail disaster - near Buenos Aires, Argentina: A Mar del Plata-Buenos Aires Firefly Express with 1,040 passengers on board collided head-on with a freight train, killing 34 people.
  • March 18, 1964 – Mirigama train crash, Sri Lanka: A Sri Lankan commuter train derails at high speed, killing more than 60 people.
  • July 21, 1964 – Passenger train derailed at Custoias, Portugal, killing 94 people.
  • September 5, 1964 – According to TT news agency report, an eight cars of North Arrow Express derailed at Alby station, near Ånge Sweden, killing 10 people and injuring 40.
  • November 1, 1964 – At Langhagen, East Germany, a steam locomotive with a gravel car ignored a red signal and crashed into a buffer-stop. The first car behind the locomotive, with a weight of 90 tons, was pressed up almost perpendicularly by the force of the impact. At the same time the express train Berlin-Rostock, just having left Langhagen station, passed by, when unfortunately the perpendicularly standing gravel car tilted and bored itself into the fourth car of the express train, killing 44 people and injuring 70.
  • November 15, 1964 - A freight train crashes at Adolphus Street Goods Yar, Bradford, Yorkshire after the crew lose control and jump clear. The locomotive is consequently scrapped in situ.
  • December 17, 1964 – At Dhanuskodi, Southern Tamil Nadu, a passenger train (the No.653 Rameswaram to Dhanuskodi) was fully submerged by sea water due to a heavy storm and tidal waves nearly 20m in height. More than 115 passengers were travelling on this train.

1965

1966

  • January 2, 1966 – The last two cars of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad's South Wind derail near Franklin, Kentucky, injuring 19 of an estimated 400 passengers on board. The last car, a private coach owned by Robert T. Hogan of Oak Park, Illinois, turns over on its side, injuring him and several members of his family, while passengers in the next coach, which derails but stays upright, were injured by baggage stored overhead striking them in the head and back.
  • January 7, 1966 – 44 cars of a Delaware and Hudson Railroad freight train derail in the village of Bainbridge, New York. Two people, Anthony and Rose Delello, are killed when the derailed train and ensuing fire destroyed their home. Another woman, Alice Johnson is trapped in her car for hours when one of the derailed cars fell on her vehicle.
  • February 9, 1966 – Two coaches of a London-bound commuter train burst into flame as the train moved at 70 miles an hour, with scores of passengers jumping from the blazing cars which was finally stopped near Radlett, 20 miles north of London. Thirty-three persons, many of them stretcher cases with burns, were taken to hospitals. Others were treated beside the tracks where the train halted after passengers pulled the emergency cord. Rescue officials praised the quick action of John Allam, chief test pilot for the nearby Handley-Page Aircraft plant, in sounding an alarm that brought firemen and ambulances to the scene within minutes. He also notified a signalman up the line to halt following trains.
  • February 16, 1966 – Passenger train and a train carrying coal collide near Split, SR Croatia, Yugoslavia and burst into flames, killing 33.
  • May 2, 1966 – Deštnice, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic): A train collides with a lorry carrying students. 10 people killed, 37 injured.
  • June 13, 1966 – Two suburban commuter EMU trains collide head-on in torrential monsoon rain between Matunga and Sion railway stations, Bombay, India; killing 57 and injuring 106, 42 seriously. Motorman cabins and first few coaches of both trains were crushed. Coaches telescoped into each other and climbed over the adjacent coaches. It was thought the heavy monsoon rains might have disrupted signalling system.
  • July 13,1966, Cherryville, North Carolina, Seaboard Air Line trains #45 & #46 hit headon. J.W.Pait, of Hamlet,N.C. killed, and 3 injured. Six locomotives destroyed,GP-9's, 1911, 1927. 1963, 1971, 1979 and F-3 4027.
  • July 15, 1966 – Kingham, Oxfordshire. A train derails due to the movement of a switch blade on a set of points. The switch blade was able to move because bolts had been removed and the blade had not been clamped.
  • October 1966 – The Dorion level crossing accident: A merchant CN Rail train traveling at an excessive speed collides with a school bus at a level-crossing in Dorion, Quebec, Canada, killing 19 of 40 teenage students and the bus driver.

1967

Langenweddingen rail crash.
  • May 21, 1967 – Kuppam, Andhra Pradesh, India: A Bangalore-Cochin express train ploughed into an obstruction on the line, following to crashed, at least 40 killed and 50 injured.
  • May 22, 1967 NYC, NY. Two New York Central Rail Road trains collided head on, causing the deaths of 6, and injuring others on the colliding freight trains.
  • July 6, 1967 – Langenweddingen level crossing disaster, Langenweddingen, East Germany near Magdeburg: Because of an overstretched cable preventing the proper operation of a level crossing's barriers, a local train collides with lorry carrying 15,000 litres of light petrol and ignites. 94 people killed, of which 44 are children on a holiday transit. After the accident, barrier-dependent train signalling was introduced on the DR network.
  • July 31, 1967 – Thirsk rail crash (1967), an express train from King's Cross to Edinburgh collides at speed with the wreckage of a derailed freight train. Seven killed and 45 injured, 15 seriously.
  • August 10, 1967 – Odense, Denmark: 11 people are killed and 36 injured as a lyntog express train from Copenhagen crashes into a stationary train shortly before Odense.
  • August 25, 1967 – Beesd, Netherlands: The driver and conductor (who in those days was supposed to ride together with the driver in the front cabin) are killed and 7 passengers of a passenger train are injured at 5:55 in the morning, when a cargo train crashes head-on into the first passenger train of that day. The driver of the cargo train (who was injured but survived the crash) missed a red signal, because of dense fog.
  • October 4, 1967 – Fexhe-le-Haut-Clocher, Belgium : 11 people are killed as 3 trains collide.
  • November 5, 1967 – Hither Green rail crash, a broken rail causes a derailment resulting in 49 human deaths.

1968

  • January 6, 1968 – Hixon rail crash, England: A Manchester-London express strikes a vehicle carrying a 122-tonne (120-long ton) transformer at an automatic level crossing. Eleven people are killed and 27 seriously injured.
  • June 24, 1968 – Sion, Switzerland: A freight train collides head-on with a train carrying 300 passengers on an outing. 12 killed, 103 injured, 17 seriously.
  • December 12, 1968 – Mende, Hungary: A fast passenger train collides head-on with a freight train. 43 people killed, 60 injured.

1969

  • January 4, 1969 – Marden rail crash, a passenger train runs into the back of a parcels train after passing a signal at danger. Four people killed, eleven injured.
  • January 31, 1969 – Cheonan, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea: An express train rammed into a rear of another passenger train and killing 41 people.
  • January 31, 1969 Herend, Hungary: a passenger express train crashed into a military train. Eleven people are killed and 39 injured.
  • February 7, 1969 – Violet Town rail accident, Australia: a head-on collision on a single line, no ATP; 9 people killed
  • March 21, 1969 – Caveiras, Santa Catarina, Brazil: An overcrowded passenger train crashed and broke down and killing fifteen people, another injuring 200.
  • May 1, 1969 – Chomakovtsi, Bulgaria: About 3 am the rear car of overcrowded narrow-gauge night passenger train from Cherven bryag to Oryahovo derails and turns over near Chomakovtsi. The car remains coupled to the train and has been dragged along the track lying on its right side. The passengers fall from the windows and are literally minced between the track and car body. More than hundred meters of the track were covered with blood and parts of human bodies. 29 passengers were killed, 38 severely injured, most of them died afterwards, others remained disabled for life. This is the worst railway accident in the history of Bulgarian Railways.
  • May 7, 1969 – a passenger train derails at Morpeth, Northumberland due to excessive speed on an acute curve. Six people killed and 21 injured.
  • June 21, 1969 – A six passenger cars of express crashed by left a tracks and roared into Magari River and killing 70 people and injuring 130 in Muhammadabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.
  • July 28, 1969 – Bezděčín, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic): A passenger train collided with a bus at level crossing, killing 23 people and injuring 29.
  • August 20, 1969 – Darien, Connecticut: Two New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad electric multiple units collide head-on along the single-track New Canaan Branch. Three crew and one passenger die, due to crew's disregard of train orders.
  • 1969 - Riverdale, Illinois: an Illinois Central coal train was speeding down the mainline outside of Riverdale, Illinois. Ahead of this coal train was a string of autoracks being pulled by a switcher. Before the crash though, I believe that the coal train became a runaway and slammed into the rear of the autoracks, throwing twelve of them aside before the lead loco came to rest under the thirteenth one. Around 100 coal cars jackknifed into a space of about one city block, a bridge was collapsed in the wreck, the lead unit which was a U-Boat was totally destroyed, the other two locos which were geeps were returned to service. The crew members on the coal train died and were later found under all of the coal that was piled up where the crash initially began.

See also

References

  1. Gerd Böhmer. "Bahnbetriebsunfälle der DR und DB ab 1958".
  2. Pruden, Jana G. (December 28, 2010). "Survivors recall 'The Tragedy'". The Edmonton Journal. Postmedia Network Inc. Retrieved May 30, 2011.
  3. (Taiwan) United Daily News, Mar 12, 1961
  4. ^ Hoole, Ken (1982). Trains in Trouble. Vol. Vol. 3. Redruth: Atlantic Books. p. not numbered. ISBN 0 906899 05 2. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help)
  5. (Taiwan) United Daily News, Jul 9, 1961
  6. Langley, Brig C A (22 December 1961). "Report on the Collision at Singleton Bank" (Document). HMSO. {{cite document}}: Unknown parameter |accessdate= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |format= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)
  7. ^ Trevenna, Arthur (1981). Trains in Trouble. Vol. Vol. 2. Redruth: Atlantic Books. p. not numbered. ISBN 0 906899 03 6. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help)
  8. The Rocky Mountain News The Crossing Retrieved January 26, 2007.
  9. ^ "Tragedia sui binari". Il Sole 24 Ore. January 7, 2004. Retrieved July 1, 2009.
  10. Hoole, Ken (1983). Trains in Trouble. Vol. Vol. 4. Redruth: Atlantic Books. p. not numbered. ISBN 0 906899 07 9. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help)
  11. Danger Ahead! Harmelen, The Netherlands, 1962
  12. Template:Fr icon Billebault, Roald (November 16, 2006). Velars: Horreur sur le Viaduc. La Gazette.
  13. http://pl.wikipedia.org/Katastrofa_kolejowa_pod_Piotrkowem_Trybunalskim
  14. "The bank holiday railway trip that ended in terror". The Folkestone Herald. 6 June 2013. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
  15. "Report of Inquiry into Accident on Railway System Córas Iompair Éireann near Mullingar, Co. Westmeath on 5th December 1963" (PDF). Department of Transport and Power via Rail Accident Investigation Unit. 1964. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
  16. Associated Press (December 10, 1965). 80 human fatalities, 100 injuries result in Burma train crash. The Victoria Advocate.
  17. United Press International, "19 Injured As Passenger Train Derails", Playground Daily News, Fort Walton Beach, Florida, Monday, 3 January 1966, Volume 19, Number 237, page 1.
  18. Associated Press, "33 Injured In British Train Crash", Playground Daily News, Fort Walton Beach, Florida, Thursday, 10 February 1966, Volume 20, Number 4, page 1.
  19. "Two-train crash kills 52", The Straits Times, Singapore 14-Jun-1966, p.18.
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  24. "12 die, 108 hurt as trains hit in Switzerland". Toronto Daily Star. 1968-06-25. p. 4.
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  26. "Survivors hunted after crash." The Hartford Courant. December 24, 1968.
  27. Shaw 1978, pp. 363–365. sfn error: no target: CITEREFShaw1978 (help)

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