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* {{flagicon|India}} 17 January 2010. Two persons were killed and four others injured when their car was hit by a train at an unmanned crossing on Sunday afternoon in [[Barabanki district]]. The accident happened when the Lucknow-Sultanpur Harihar Nath Express hit the car at Barha railway crossing under Haidergarh police station area. Two persons traveling in the car died on the spot while the four others who sustained serious injuries have been referred to Trauma Centre in Lucknow. Train traffic on this route was disrupted for nearly two hours after the accident. This is the fifth accident in series of [[2010 Uttar Pradesh train accidents|similar train accidents]]. <ref>[http://www.newsonair.com/archiveNews.asp (AIR) The Archive result from date "17-1-2010 07:04:33 PM" to date "18-1-2010 07:04:33 PM" from search on http://www.newsonair.com/archive.asp]</ref> <ref>[http://loksangharsha.blogspot.com/2010/01/blog-post_17.html (Lok Sangharsha), Hindi]</ref> <!-- access date 19-01-2010 -->
* {{flagicon|India}} 17 January 2010. Two persons were killed and four others injured when their car was hit by a train at an unmanned crossing on Sunday afternoon in [[Barabanki district]]. The accident happened when the Lucknow-Sultanpur Harihar Nath Express hit the car at Barha railway crossing under Haidergarh police station area. Two persons traveling in the car died on the spot while the four others who sustained serious injuries have been referred to Trauma Centre in Lucknow. Train traffic on this route was disrupted for nearly two hours after the accident. This is the fifth accident in series of [[2010 Uttar Pradesh train accidents|similar train accidents]]. <ref>[http://www.newsonair.com/archiveNews.asp (AIR) The Archive result from date "17-1-2010 07:04:33 PM" to date "18-1-2010 07:04:33 PM" from search on http://www.newsonair.com/archive.asp]</ref> <ref>[http://loksangharsha.blogspot.com/2010/01/blog-post_17.html (Lok Sangharsha), Hindi]</ref> <!-- access date 19-01-2010 -->

* {{flagicon|India}} 22 January 2010. A goods train derailed near Azamgarh in [[Uttar Pradesh]] on Friday, disrupting rail traffic in the region, officials said. No one was injured. The accident took place at Sathiyaon station near Azamgarh, some 300 km from here, when three bogeys of the goods train derailed, an official said. Traffic was disrupted on the busy [[Varanasi]]-[[Azamgarh]]-[[Gorakhpur]] route. <ref>[http://www.samaylive.com/news/goods-train-derails-in-uttar-pradesh-672657/672657.html (Samay Live)]</ref><!-- access date 22-01-2010 -->


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This is a list of rail accidents from 2010 to 2019.

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2010s: 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
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2010s

2010

  • India January 2, 2010. The first of three accidents in Uttar Pradesh on this day took place near the town of Etawah, about 170 miles (270 kilometers) southwest of Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh state, when the Lichchavi Express entering the station rammed into the stationery Magadh Express train stopped there. Ten people, including the driver of one of the trains, were injured.[1] At least 10 people were reported to have been killed.[2]
  • India January 2, 2010. Another accident has been reported from Pratapgarh, 61 kms from Allahabad. The Sarayu Express broke into a tractor trolley at an unmanned railway crossing leading to the accident. Though nobody is injured following the incident, the engine of the train is severely damaged.[4]
  • Finland January 4, 2010 – Helsinki, Finland - An intercity train broke in two, and four carriages crashed into the main railway station's concrete buffer stop. Thanks to the timely actions of operators and a guard, the train had been diverted to a secondary track, and the platform was evacuated. However, one of the carriages plunged into the Holiday Inn hotel's offices causing severe structural damage. There were no casualties. Only the conductor of the train, which carried no passengers, was slightly hurt. [7]
  • United Kingdom January 4, 2010. A freight train hauled by a Class 66 locomotive derailed at Carrbridge in snowy weather, blocking the Highland Main Line.[8] The cause was the freight train passing a signal at danger and being deliberately derailed on trap points.[9]
  • India 16 January 2010. Three people died and around a dozen were injured when two express trains(The Kalindi Express and Shram Shakti Express) collided in thick fog in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh on Saturday, 16 January 2010. The accident happened near Tundla, 25 kilometres from Agra, when the driver of one of the trains apparently did not react to a signal, slamming his train into another on the same track. [10] [11] [12] [13]
  • India 17 January 2010. Two persons were killed and four others injured when their car was hit by a train at an unmanned crossing on Sunday afternoon in Barabanki district. The accident happened when the Lucknow-Sultanpur Harihar Nath Express hit the car at Barha railway crossing under Haidergarh police station area. Two persons traveling in the car died on the spot while the four others who sustained serious injuries have been referred to Trauma Centre in Lucknow. Train traffic on this route was disrupted for nearly two hours after the accident. This is the fifth accident in series of similar train accidents. [14] [15]
  • India 22 January 2010. A goods train derailed near Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh on Friday, disrupting rail traffic in the region, officials said. No one was injured. The accident took place at Sathiyaon station near Azamgarh, some 300 km from here, when three bogeys of the goods train derailed, an official said. Traffic was disrupted on the busy Varanasi-Azamgarh-Gorakhpur route. [16]


See also

References

  1. ^ "Trains collide in dense fog in Uttar Pradesh". The Economic Times. Retrieved 4 January 2010.
  2. ^ "10 die as trains collide in fog-bound northern India". Google News. Retrieved 4 January 2010.
  3. ^ "5 dead, 50 injured in train accidents in India". Washington Post. Retrieved 4 January 2010.
  4. ^ "At least 10 killed in train crashes in northern India". Reuters. Retrieved 4 January 2010.
  5. ^ "7 coaches of Arunachal Pradesh derail in Assam, passengers safe". netindian. Retrieved 5 January 2010.
  6. ^ "Trains collide in northern Turkey". BBC News Online. Retrieved 3 January 2010.
  7. ^ "Runaway Train Carriages at Helsinki Railway Station". YLE. Retrieved 4 January 2010.
  8. ^ "Snow derailment problems continue". BBC News Online. 4 January 2010. Retrieved 5 January 2010.
  9. ^ "Investigation into an accident involving a freight train at Carrbridge, Inverness-shire, on 4 January 2010". Rails Accidents Investigation Branch. Retrieved 16 January 2010.
  10. ^ (Indo Asian News Service)
  11. ^ (PTI)
  12. ^ (Dawn)
  13. ^ (AFP)
  14. ^ (AIR) The Archive result from date "17-1-2010 07:04:33 PM" to date "18-1-2010 07:04:33 PM" from search on http://www.newsonair.com/archive.asp
  15. ^ (Lok Sangharsha), Hindi
  16. ^ (Samay Live)
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