List of German rail accidents
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This List of German rail accidents contains those train wrecks which happened in Germany, including
- German states before 1871 (excluding Austria)
- German Reich
- Allied-occupied Germany
- Federal Republic of Germany
- German Democratic Republic
List
Accident | Date | Killed | Injured | Description |
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Rail accident of Gütersloh-Avenwedde[1] | 21 January 1851 | 3 | 7 | Derailment of a Long Boiler locomotive which caused passenger coaches to derail. One of the injured passengers was Prince Frederick of Prussia, later German Emperor. |
Rail accident of Steglitz[2] | 2 September 1883 | 39 | ? | A large crowd, out of control, crossed the main line to reach a departing local train. An express approaching on the main line ran into the crowd. |
Hugstetten rail disaster | 3 September 1883 | 64 | 230 | Track failure (after a strong thunderstorm) derailed the train. Improper track maintenance and overspeed are also mentioned. |
Rail accident of Hanau (1884)[3] | 14 November 1884 | 22 | 26 | After a rear-end collision of a passenger train into a freight train, the derailed vehicles also blocked the second track for trains moving in the opposite direction. An oncoming train on the second track hit the remains of the first accident. |
Rail accident of Würzburg[4] | 1 July 1886 | 16 | 70 | The misunderstanding of two traffic controllers brings two trains onto the same track, resulting in a head-on collision. |
Rail accident of Pelm[5] | 18 May 1897 | 10 | 40 | After the division of a running train, the rear part collided with the front part later on. |
Rail accident of Mühlheim am Main[6] | 8 November 1900 | 12 | 4 | Rear-end collision under heavy fog; gas used for car-lighting caused a fire. |
Rail accident of Ludwigshafen (1901)[7] | 9 May 1901 | 1 | 2 | Spectacular overrun of a buffer stop due to defective brakes |
Rail accident of Frankfurt (1901)[8] | 6 December 1901 | 0 | 0 | Failing brakes caused the engine of the Eastend-Vienna-Express to overrun the buffer stop at Frankfurt Central station and smash a hole into the opposite wall, coming to a stop only in the waiting room of the station. Nobody was seriously hurt. |
Rail accident of Altenbeken[9] | 20 December 1901 | 12 | 27 | Rear-end collision after signalling a “go ahead” to the following train too early. |
Rail accident of Zschortau[10] | 5 May 1902 | 2 | 7 | Derailment after the breaking of an axle of the tender. |
Rail accident of Rothenkirchen[11] | 7 August 1903 | 3 | 30 | Excessive speed threw a train out of a narrow curve. |
Rail accident of Herbolzheim[12] | 2 December 1903 | 1 | ? | Shunting engine in the way of an express which hit it |
Rail accident of Primkenau[13] | 15 August 1904 | 1 | ? | Sparks of a steam engine ignited a forest, burning down 46 square kilometers of it. |
Rail accident of Schwegenheim[14] | 25 May 1905 | 1 | 1 | A construction train derailed after heavy braking. |
Rail accident of Spremberg[15] | 7 August 1905 | 19 | 40 | A drunken train controller let two trains on the same track, causing a head-on collision. |
Rail accident of Züllichau[16] | 28 October 1909 | 4 | 0 | First documented level crossing crash between a train and a motor car. |
Rail accident of Müllheim[17] | 17 July 1911 | 11 | 32 | Drunken engineer falls asleep, passes a speed limit with excessive speed, which causes the train to derail. |
Rail accident of Waldenburg[18] | 22 October 1913 | 14 | ? | A runaway freight car collided with a tram on a level crossing. |
Rail accident of Braunsdorf[19] | 14 December 1913 | 10 | 53 | After a landslide the exit of a tunnel was blocked. A passenger train passing through the tunnel rammed itself into the rocks. |
Rail accident of Nannhofen[20] | 17 April 1917 | 30 | 80 | Express overran a stop signal and crashed into the passenger carriages of a shunting mixed train. |
Rail accident of Schönhausen[21] | 16 October 1917 | 26 | 16 | Passenger train passed a red signal and collided with the rear-end of a freight train. |
Rail accident of Dresden-Neustadt[22] | 22 September 1918 | 18 | 118 | An overrun red signal led to a rear-end crash of two express trains. |
Rail accident of Briesen (Mark)[23] | 1 November 1918 | 19 | 45 | After the division of a freight train, a following passenger train crashed into the cars that the freight train had left behind. |
Rail accident of Kranowitz[24] | 24 October 1919 | 25+ | 80+ | A freight train stopped within the loading gauge of an adjacent track. So it was hit by an oncoming passenger train from Czechoslovakia. Smuggled alcohol was set on fire and exploded. The train partially burned out. |
Rail accident of Silberhausen[25] | 16 December 1920 | 17 | 9 | A mixed train got out of control on a steep incline, overran a buffer stop and tumbled 20 meters down a slope. The heavy freight-cars loaded with minerals buried the two passenger coaches. |
Rail accident of Berlin (1922)[26] | 27 June 1922 | 45 | 50? | During a strike, passengers rode the overcrowded trains also on the footboard of the coaches. A long pole sticking out of the rucksack of one of them strikes dozens of passengers on a passing second train, causing them to fall off. |
Rail accident of Kreiensen[27] | 31 July 1923 | 48 | 39 | An express overrunning a red signal crashed into another express which stood in the station due to a defective locomotive. Gerhard Domagk, winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1939, travelled in one of the totally destroyed coaches and escaped just by chance: He had left the train to get something to drink in the station. |
Rail accident of Stuttgart-Untertürkheim[28] | 15 November 1923 | 12 | 15 | Engineer misreading a signal ran into a track on which another train was approaching. This led to a head-on collision. |
Rail accident of Ludwigsstadt[29] | 18 February 1924 | 2 | 0 | After malfunction of the brakes, a freight train ran with excessive speed over a point securing a building site. The locomotive and 21 of the cars tumbled from the Trogenbach Viadukt, a bridge 26 meters high partly on top of buildings situated at the foot of the bridge. A part of the train was consumed in the following fire. |
Rail accident of Mainz[30] | 24 October 1924 | 14 | ? | Due to interference of the French military with the automatic train protection and a “go ahead” given too early, a passenger train collided with the rear end of another train within a tunnel situated south of Mainz Central Station. |
Rail accident of Herne[31] | 13 January 1925 | 24 | 91 | Due to a faultily installed train protection, a rear-end collision of two trains happened. |
Rail accident of Langenbach[32] | 13 August 1926 | 12 | 20 | Badly secured building site led to the derailment of a train. |
Attack on express D 8 at Leiferde[33] | 19 August 1926 | 21 | 40 | Two criminals intending to rob a mail-coach damaged the track. Express D 8 from Berlin to Cologne derailed. |
Rail accident of Siegelsdorf[34] | 10 June 1928 | 24 | 128 | Derailment caused by added multiple causes |
Rail accident of Munich (1928)[35] | 15 July 1928 | 10 | 25 | Due to a misunderstanding between traffic controllers, two passenger trains had a rear-end collision when leaving München Hauptbahnhof. A third train could just stop before running into the debris. Still lighted by petroleum, the mainly wooden cars caught fire. |
Rail accident of Dinkelscherben[36] | 31 July 1928 | 23 | 51 | Passenger train ran into a freight train. The accident was caused by defective train protection due to work in progress. |
Rail accident of Kerpen-Buir[37] | 25 August 1929 | 14 | 103 | An express negotiated a low speed turnout at 100 km/h instead of 40 km/h and derailed. |
Rail accident of Großheringen[38] | 24 December 1935 | 34 | 27 | Express overran a red signal and crashed into the side of another passenger train. |
Rail accident of Holzheim[39] | 15 September 1937 | 17 | 35 | On a building site, the “slow down” signal was not installed. So a train passed on too high a speed and derailed. |
Rail accident of Bauerwitz[40] | 12 November 1939 | 43 | 77 | By a mistake of a traffic controller, two trains entered the same section of a single-track line and collided head-on. |
Genthin rail disaster | 22 December 1939 | 186 | 106 | Rear-end collision of two express trains after overrunning a red signal |
Rail accident of Markdorf[41] | 22 December 1939 | 101 | 47 | Mistake of a traffic controller led to a head-on collision of a passenger train and a freight train. |
Rail accident of Gifhorn[42] | 22 January 1941 | 122 | 80 | Rear-end collision of a freight train overrunning a red signal and running into a train which transported about 1,000 prisoners of war. |
Rail accident of Leichholz[43] | 27 December 1941 | 44 | 67 | After the division of a freigt train transporting petrol, a following express collided with those cars of the freight train which were disconnected. The collision caused an explosion of the petrol. |
Rail accident of Porta Westfalica[44] | 20 January 1944 | 79 | 64+ | Rear-end collision after signalling a “go ahead” to the following train too early. |
Rail accident of Verne[45] | 31 March 1945 | 7+ | ? | Rear-end collision of two trains not using any train protection which was not working due to destruction by war activities in the last days of World War II. |
Rail accident of Munich (1945)[46] | 8 May 1945 | 11 | ? | Explosion of ammunition train |
Rail accident of Aßling[47] | 16 July 1945 | 102+ | ? | Due to faulty signalling and a poor decision by a traffic controller, a freight train hit a passenger train which had stopped after a technical default. |
Rail accident of Neddemin[48] | 4 December 1945 | 38 | 68 | Head-on collision of two passenger trains due to a dismantled train protection system and a mistake by the train controller. |
Rail accident of Eisleben (1946)[49] | 16 April 1946 | 24 | 39 | Train running on orders of Soviet occupying forces under the Soviet Military Administration in Germany but outside the rules securing movements of trains. This caused a rear-end collision of the train into a passenger train. |
Rail accident of Neuwied[50] | 22 December 1947 | 42 | 116 | Defective signalling due to shortages in the post-war erea caused a head-on collision of two express trains. |
1948 BASF tank car explosion, Ludwigshafen[51] | 28 July 1948 | 207 | 3818 | A tank car, loaded with Dimethyl ether and parked within the industrial complex of BASF, had a leakage and exploded, releasing other chemicals. Most of the injured suffered from poisonous gases. |
Rail accident in the Kaiser Wilhelm Tunnel[52] | 22 November 1948 | 0 | 2 | After a coal dust explosion on the steam engine of the express from Paris to Koblenz within Kaiser Wilhelm Tunnel, then the longest railway tunnel of Germany, the engineer managed to run the train out of the tunnel with the burning engine – not a single passenger was injured. |
Boiler explosion of Meiningen[53] | 4 May 1951 | 11 | 11 | During repairs on a steam engine in Meiningen Steam Locomotive Works, the boiler was not supervised properly and exploded. |
Rail accident of Kenn[54] | 10 June 1951 | 15 | 33 | Level crossing accident |
Rail accident of Herrsching[55] | 19 June 1951 | 16 | 7 | By mistake of a train controller, two trains moved on the same track, leading to a head-on collision. |
Rail accident of Walpertskirchen[56] | 8 November 1951 | 16 | 41 | The station master of this little station, all on his own and occupied by multiple tasks, erroneously let two trains, coming from opposite directions, into his station on the same track. This resulted in a head-on collision. |
Rail accident of Hanau (1954)[57] | 27 April 1954 | 4 | 97 | A regional train passed a red signal and hit into the side of the passing Scandinavia Express. |
Rail accident of Worms-Abenheim[58] | 24 July 1954 | 25 | ? | Level crossing accident |
Rail accident of Liebschützberg-Bornitz[59] | 25 February 1956 | 43 | 55 | Shunting freight train crashed into the side of a passing express. |
Rail accident of Drachenfels[60] | 14 September 1958 | 18 | 112 | Faulty braking of a descending train on the Drachenfels Railway, a rack railway, resulted in excessive speed and derailment. |
Lauffen bus crash | 20 June 1959 | 45 | 25 | After the barrier of a level crossing was not closed properly, a train hit a bus. |
Rail accident of Leipzig[61] | 15 May 1960 | 54 | 240 | To get a train over a blocked signal, workers at a signal box handed a written order to the engineer of the train, but forgot to put the points right. This led the train onto a wrong track on which another train was approaching, resulting in a head-on collision. |
Rail accident of Esslingen am Neckar[62] | 13 June 1961 | 35 | 36 | Head-on collision of two trains after one of the drivers ignored a red signal. |
Rail accident of Hamburg (1961)[63] | 5 October 1961 | 28 | 55 | A train controller erroneously guided a suburban train onto a track blocked by a maintenance train, which led to a collision. |
Rail accident of Trebbin[64] | 1 March 1962 | 70? | ? | The tank turret of a Soviet army tank transported on a train came loose, and its gun smashed into an oncoming express passing on the parallel track. |
Rail accident of Langhagen[65] | 1 November 1964 | 44 | 70 | After the derailment of a freight train, a passing express ran into the debris of the first accident. |
Rail accident of Lampertheim[66] | 12 August 1965 | 4 | 45 | A freight train was pulled out of the main line to be overtaken by a following Trans Europ Express. But the last car of the freight train did not clear the loading gauge completely. The Express hit the car, and its locomotive and all the cars derailed and were badly damaged. |
Langenweddingen level crossing disaster | 6 July 1967 | 94+ | ? | Level crossing accident: A passenger train hits a truck with a load of petrol which exploded. The train burned out. |
Rail accident of Hanover-Linden[67] | 22 June 1969 | 12 | 30 | Explosion of a freight car loaded with ammunition. |
Rail accident of Aitrang[68] | 9 February 1971 | 28 | 42 | A Trans Europ Express derailed in a curve due to excessive speed. A railbus, approaching from the opposite direction, crashed into the wreckage. |
Dahlerau train disaster | 27 May 1971 | 46 | 25 | A freight train and a passenger train collided head-on after a misunderstanding between a traffic controller and an engineer. |
Rail accident of Rheinweiler[69] | 21 July 1971 | 25 | 121 | Engineer probably got incapacitated (he died in the accident) and the train derailed with excessive speed in a narrow curve. |
Rail accident of Ingolstadt[70] | 2 March 1972 | 3 | 0 | Rear-end crash of two freight trains, the front one loaded with oil, resulted in a blaze and large material damage. |
Rail accident of Neukirchen-Schweinsburg-Culten[71] | 30 October 1972 | 28 | 70 | Train passing a red signal led to a head-on collision of two express trains. |
Rail accident of Baunatal-Guntershausen[72] | 5 November 1973 | 14 | 65 | Due to wet autumn weather the rails were covered with moisture, dirt and wet leaves. This caused such a bad braking performance that a train collided rear-end with another train standing. |
Rail accident of Munich (1975)[73] | 7 March 1975 | 12 | 5 | Level crossing accident |
Rail accident of Warngau[74] | 8 June 1975 | 41 | 122 | The misunderstanding of two traffic controllers and the nonexistence of technical train protection led to the head-on collision of two trains. |
Rail accident of Hamburg (1975)[75] | 22 July 1975 | 11 | 125 | Red signal overrun |
Rail accident of Lebus[76] | 27 June 1977 | 31 | 7 | Due to works re-signaling the station of Booßen, the point to the branch line to Frankfurt (Oder) was without any connection to the technical installations providing train protection and had to be handled manually. The person in charge of this erroneously switched it into the wrong direction, which led to the head-on collision of two trains. |
Boiler explosion of Bitterfeld[77] | 27 November 1977 | 9 | 45 | Last explosion of a steam engine boiler in Germany. |
Rail accident of Erfurt-Bischleben[78] | 11 June 1981 | 14 | 102 | Derailment of an express due to distortion of the track. |
Rail accident of Heilbronn[79] | 12 August 1984 | 3 | 57 | Excessive speed when crossing a point resulted in a derailment |
Rail accident of Empelde[80] | 20 March 1985 | 0 | 0 | Crash of two freight-trains. Explosion of several tank-cars loaded with petrol. |
Forst Zinna rail disaster[81] | 19 January 1988 | 6 | 33 | A Russian army tank ran onto a rail track and was hit by an express. |
Rail accident in Heiligenberg Tunnel, Kaiserslautern[82] | 28 June 1988 | 1 | 38 | A freight train derailed after running into a landslide in the entrance of Heiligenberg Tunnel, its locomotive standing in the loading gauge of the track for trains running in opposite direction. There, a passenger train hit it and derailed, too. |
Rüsselsheim train disaster[83] | 2 February 1990 | 17 | 145 | An S-Bahn suburban service overran a red signal, leading to a head-on collision with an oncoming train. |
Rail accident of Northeim[84] | 15 November 1992 | 11 | 51 | A buffer fell from a freight train, causing 14 cars to derail, some of them standing within the loading gauge of the rail for trains coming from the opposite direction. The express from Copenhagen to Innsbruck ran into these cars. |
Rail accident of Holthusen[85] | 31 December 1992 | 1 | 9 | Due to a mistake by a traffic controller, a shunting engine came in the way of an approaching express train, followed by a collision. |
Rail accident of Berlin (1993)[86] | 9 April 1993 | 3 | 49 | Wrongly set points led to a head-on collision. |
Rail accident of Bad Bramstedt[87] | 29 September 1994 | 6 | 80 | A DMU entered a single-track line without permission and collided with an oncoming one. |
Rail accident of Garmisch-Partenkirchen (1995)[88] | 12 December 1995 | 1 | 51 | A passenger train overran a stop-signal and crashed into the Glass Train, an EMU for sightseeing purposes, very famous with railway enthusiasts. It was the last of two of these vehicles and damaged beyond repair in this accident. |
Rail accident of Schönebeck[89] | 1 June 1996 | 0 | 18 | A train transporting vinyl chloride in 18 tank cars derailed on an outworn point. One of the cars topped another, hitting the overhead wires with a voltage of 15,000. This caused an explosion of the vinyl chloride in this car, and four more cars caught fire. It was one of the worst rail accidents in Germany involving hazardous goods.[90] |
Rail accident of Frankfurt am Main (1997)[91] | 19 February 1997 | 0 | 0 | Mix-up of two neighbouring signals by an engineer at the station of Frankfurt (Main) Süd which is placed in the inner city of Frankfurt. This caused the collision of two freight trains followed by the explosion of a car carrying petrol. A similar accident had happened in 1996 at this location, but without serious consequences. |
Rail accident of Neustadt, Hessen[92] | 5 July 1997 | 6 | 14 | Loose steel pipes rolling off a passing freight train hit an oncoming passenger service. |
Elsterwerda train disaster[93] | 20 November 1997 | 2 | 8 | Inactive brakes of a freight train loaded with petrol led to a derailment, followed by a vast explosion causing widespread damage. |
Rail accident of Hanover-Anderten[94] | 9 December 1997 | 0 | 51 | A freight train overran a red signal and crashed head-on into an oncoming passenger train. Some of the derailed cargo cars loaded with diesel fuel ignited. |
Eschede train disaster | 3 June 1998 | 101 | 194 | An ICE high-speed train derailed after a fatigue crack in one wheel and crashed into a road bridge. It remains the worst rail disaster in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany. |
Suspension railway accident of Wuppertal[95] | 12 April 1999 | 5 | 47 | Workers forgot to remove a metal claw from the track on completion of scheduled night work. The first train of the day hit the claw, derailed and fell about 10 metres into the river Wupper. |
Brühl train disaster | 6 February 2000 | 9 | 149 | A train negotiated a low speed turnout at three times the correct speed and derailed. |
Rail accident of Garmisch-Partenkirchen (2000)[96] | 10 June 2000 | 0 | 59 | A misunderstanding between two traffic controllers led to the head-on collision of two trains of the Bavarian Zugspitze Railway, a rack-railway, within a tunnel. |
Rail accident of Vilseck[97] | 22 June 2001 | 3 | 9 | Level crossing accident |
Rail accident of Bad Münder[98] | 9 September 2002 | 0 | 2 | Head-on collision of two freight trains due to a disconnected braking pipe on one of the trains. 40.000 litres of highly inflammable and carcinogen Epichlorohydrin were released. |
Rail accident of Schrozberg[99] | 11 June 2003 | 6 | 25 | Mistakes of two traffic controllers, combined with faulty signalling equipment, caused a head-on collision of two passenger trains. |
Lathen train collision | 22 September 2006 | 23 | 10 | The Transrapid, an experimental maglev train, crashed into a maintenance vehicle. This was the first serious accident with a maglev train worldwide. |
Rail accident in Landrücken Tunnel[100] | 26 April 2008 | 0 | 34 | An Intercity-Express (ICE) hit a herd of sheep at 210 km/h in Landrücken Tunnel (longest tunnel of German Railways) and derailed. |
Friedewald train collision | 12 September 2009 | 0 | 120 | Collision of two steam-hauled narrow-gauge museum trains. One had left a station without permission. |
Train derailment and collision in Peine on Hanover–Brunswick railway[101] | 16 Juni 2010 | 0 | 20 | A wheel tire of the 10th car of a freight train (two engines and 49 freight cars) got loose, so this car and the following eight derailed, some obstructing the parallel track. A Regional Express passenger train (engine and five double-deck cars) from the opposite direction hit the freight cars after a short time. The RE's leading three vehicles derailed, and the first two fell on their sides. The freight train had been stopped earlier due to observation of sparks, but the reason was not found, so the train continued. The damage was estimated at € 5,360,500.[102] |
2011 Saxony-Anhalt train collision, Hordorf | 29 January 2011 | 10 | 100 | A freight train overran a red signal and collided head-on with a DMU. The freight train's driver failed to react on the distant and the main signal in foggy conditions, and there was no PZB safety system installed (on the infrastructure) that would have stopped the train in time. |
2012 Stuttgart Derailments | 24 July 2012, also 29 September 2012 and 10 October 2012 | 0 | 8 | Three InterCity trains derailed in Stuttgart Hbf, Germany, at the same place and for the same reasons. |
Rail accident of Hosena[103] | 26 July 2012 | 1 | 2 | Non-functioning brakes on a freight train loaded with gravel let it pass two signals at danger and subsequently to a side-on collision with another freight train. In the resulting crash, one of the signal boxes of Hosena station was completely destroyed. |
Mannheim train collision | 1 August 2014 | 0 | 39 | Inside of Mannheim main station, a freight train passed a main signal at danger (red "halt" aspect) and was stopped by the PZB safety system. Instead of asking for permission to proceed, the driver restarted the train on his own, then passed two more signals (not guarded by PZB) at danger, so his train hit the side of a EuroCity long distance train. |
Bad Aibling rail accident | 9 February 2016 | 11 | 89 | Two commuter trains hit each other head-on on the bend on the Mangfall Valley Railway. There was no evidence to prove it was technical problems. The traffic controller was distracted by a smartphone online game, violated safety procedures and ordered the driver of one of the trains to override safety mechanisms. |
Munich Hackerbrücke rail accident[104] | 22 November 2019 | 0 | 1 | Two wagons have derailed shortly after leaving the Munich train station. Approximately 100 passengers were evacuated, one person was slightly injured. The cause of the derailment is still being investigated. |
References
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Avenwedde
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Steglitz
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Hanau 1884
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Würzburg
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Pelm
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Mühlheim am Main 1900
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Ludwigshafen (1901)
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall im Centralbahnhof Frankfurt
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Altenbeken
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Zschortau
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Rothenkirchen
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Herbolzheim
- ^ See German WP: Waldbrand im PrimkenauerForst
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall bei Schwegenheim
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Spremberg
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Züllichau
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Müllheim
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Waldenburg
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Braunsdorf
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Nannhofen
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Schöhausen
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Dresden-Neustadt
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Briesen
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Kranowitz
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Silberhausen
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Berlin Schönhauser Allee
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Kreiensen
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Untertürkheim
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Ludwigsstadt
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Mainz
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Herne
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Langenbach
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahn-Attentat bei Leiferde
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Siegelsdorf
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall an der Donnersbergerbrücke
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Dinkelscherben
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Buir
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Großheringen
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Holzheim
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Bauerwitz
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall bei Markdorf
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Gifhorn
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Leichholz
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall an der Porta Westfalica
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Verne
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Berg am Laim
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Aßling
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Neddemin
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Eisleben (1946)
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Neuwied
- ^ See German WP: Kesselwagenexplosion in der BASF
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall im Kaiser-Wilhelm-Tunnel (1948)
- ^ See German WP: Kesselzerknall in Meiningen
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Kenn
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Herrsching
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Walpertskirchen
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Hanau 1954
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Abenheim
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Bornitz
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall vom Drachenfels
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Leipzig
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Esslingen
- ^ See German WP: S-Bahn-Unfall am Berliner Tor
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Trebbin
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Langhagen
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Lampertheim
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Linden
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Aitrang
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Rheinweiler
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Ingolstadt
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Schweinsburg-Culten
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Guntershausen
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von München-Allach
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Warngau
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Hamburg-Hausbruch
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Lebus
- ^ See German WP: Kesselzerknall in Bitterfeld
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Erfurt-Bischleben
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Heilbronn
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Empelde
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Forst Zinna
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall im Heiligenberg-Tunnel
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Rüsselsheim
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Northeim
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Holthusen
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Berlin-Wannsee
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Bad Bramstedt
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Garmisch-Partenkirchen
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Schönebeck (1996)
- ^ "Vor 20 Jahren: Giftwolke bedroht Schönebeck" [20 years ago: poison cloud endangers Schönebeck] (in German). Volksstimme. 31 May 2016. Retrieved 17 February 2017.
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfälle in Frankfurt (Main) Süd
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Neustadt (Hessen)
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Elsterwerda
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Hannover-Anderten
- ^ See German WP: Schwebebahnunfall in Wuppertal 1999
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall im Katzenstein-Tunnel
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Vilseck
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Bad Münder
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Schrozberg
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall im Landrückentunnel
- ^ See German WP: de:Bahnstrecke Hannover–Braunschweig#Unfall von Peine-Horst
- ^ "Untersuchungsbericht der Eisenbahn-Unfalluntersuchungsstelle des Bundes: Zugentgleisung in Peine" [Investigation report of the EUB: train derailment in Peine] (PDF) (in German). EUB. 4 November 2013. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
- ^ See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Hosena
- ^ "Bundespolizeidirektion München: Bahnbetriebsunfall nahe an der Hackerbrücke: Ersatzzug, der für Meridian fährt, entgleist" [Federal Police Management Munich: Railway accident close to the Hackerbrücke: Replacement train driving for Meridian derailed] (in German). Federal Police (Germany). 22 November 2019. Retrieved 23 November 2019.