Train Disasters
Here's a look at some of the world's worst train disasters since 1900.
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A passenger train collides with a troop train in Gretna, Scotland, killing 227 people.
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A troop train derails near the entrance of the Mt. Cenis tunnel in Modane, France; 543 people are killed.
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A train wrecks in the Torro Tunnel in Leon Province, Spain. More than 500 people are killed.
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Passengers are suffocated when a train stalls in a tunnel in Salerno, Italy, causing 521 deaths.
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A Danzig-Warsaw express train derails in Nr. Dwor, Poland. More than 200 people are killed.
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A train plunges into a canyon in Guadalajara, Mexico, killing 300 people.
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An express train collides with a stationary oil train in Montgomery, West Pakistan, causing 250 deaths.
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An express train rams a stationary commuter train in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and 236 people are killed.
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A train carrying religious pilgrims derails and catches fire in Saltillo, Mexico, causing 208 deaths.
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Flash floods during monsoon season in Bihar, India, cause a train to crash after a bridge collapses. More than 800 people are killed in what is reportedly the world's worst train disaster.
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An explosion of a liquefied gas pipeline engulfs two Trans-Siberian Railroad trains parked outside the Central Asian city of Ufa, in the former Soviet Union. It kills 575 people.
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An overcrowded 16-car passenger train collides with a standing freight train in Sindh Province, Pakistan. More than 210 people are killed.
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Faulty brakes cause a train to plunge into a ravine in Tolunda, Angola, killing 300.
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A speeding passenger train crashes into a train that had stalled after hitting a cow in Firozabad, India. The collision kills 358 people.
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A head-on collision of two express trains kills more than 285 people in Gauhati, India.
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An overcrowded train en route from Cairo to the southern Egyptian city of Luxor burst into flames, then travels 2.5 miles before the driver stops. More than 360 people die.
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Runaway train cars carrying fuel and industrial chemicals derail, setting off explosions that destroy five villages in Neyshabur, Iran. At least 200 people are killed.
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A packed commuter train in Amagasaki, western Japan, jumps the tracks and rams into an apartment complex, crumpling passenger cars into twisted metal. At least 65 people are killed and 440 injured.
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Credits:
CBS News, Associated Press
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