Train Crash Events

1865 Jun 9 Staplehurst Rail Crash
The Staplehurst rail crash was a railway accident at Staplehurst, Kent, England, which took place on 9 June 1865 and in which ten passengers were killed and 40 injured. It is particularly...
1892 Nov 2 Thirsk Rail Crash
One of the saddest stories in all railway history is that of the Thirsk disaster of November 2, 1892, when through the mistake of a signalman the Flying Scotchman dashed into a goods trai...
1907 Jul 20 Pere Marquette Railway Disaster
Thirty-one persons were killed and more than seventy injured, many of them seriously, when a Pere Marquette excursion train bound from Ionia to Detroit crashed into a west-bound freight t...
1963 Nov 9 Tsurumi Rail Accident
The Tsurumi rail accident occurred on November 9, 1963 between Tsurumi Station and Shin-Koyasu Station on the Tōkaidō Main Line in Yokohama, Japan, about 30 kilometres (20 mi) west of Tok...
1975 Feb 28 Moorgate Tube Crash
The Moorgate tube crash was a railway disaster on the London Underground, which occurred on Friday February 28th 1975 at 08.46 am. A southbound train on the Northern Line (Highbury Bra...
1981 Jun 6 Bihar Train Disaster
In the Bihar train disaster on June 6, 1981, a passenger train carrying 800 or more passengers between Mansi and Saharsa, India derailed and plunged into the Bagmati river while it was cr...
2005 Oct 3 Datia Rail Accident
The Datia train accident was a railroad accident that occurred on 3 October 2005 involving a passenger train near Datia in India's Madhya Pradesh Province. The accident occurred just thre...
2008 Apr 28 71 Die in a Train Crash in Shandong, China
The 2008 Shandong train collision (Chinese: “4·28”胶济铁路特别重大交通事故) was a major train collision that occurred on the morning of April 28, 2008, near the city of Zibo, in Shandong province, Pe...
2009 Jun 22 Two Metro trains collide in Washington D.C.
Authorities say seven people have been killed and 70 injured in a subway train collision in Washington DC. The city's mayor Adrian Fenty held a press conference where he revised an ear...
2010 May 28 Gyaneshwari Express Derailment
A day after a major train accident involving the Howrah-Kurla Jnaneswari Express and a goods train here, the death count rose to 141 on Saturday while more than 180 injured passengers are...