2 January 2010 – India The first of three accidents on the same day in Uttar Pradesh near the town of Etawah, occurs about 170 miles (270 kilometres) southwest of Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh state, when the Lichchavi Express entering the station in heavy fog runs into the stationary Magadh Express train stopped there. Ten people, including the driver of one of the trains, are injured.[1] At least 10 people were reported to have been killed.[2]
At Pratapgarh, 61 kilometres (38 mi) from Allahabad, the Sarayu Express ploughs into a tractor trailer at an unmanned railway crossing. Though nobody is injured, the engine of the train is severely damaged.[4]
2 January 2010 – India – The Arunachal Pradesh Express derails near Helem. All seven cars leave the track. No injuries were reported.[5] Timely actions of operators and a guard diverted the train to a secondary track, and the platform was evacuated. One of the carriages plunged into a 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.[6]
66 048 after the derailment at Carrbridge.
3 January 2010 – Turkey – Two trains collide between Bayirkoy and Vezirhan. One person is killed and three are injured.[7]
12 February 2010 – United States – At 10.13, a train derails in the pocket track just north of Farragut NorthWashington Metrostation when the front car leaves the tracks. Of the nearly 400 passengers on board, one person was taken to hospital.[12][13]
15 March 2010 – United States – A METRO bus collides with a light rail METRO train in Houston, Texas, injuring nearly 20 people.[16]
24 March 2010 – Norway – 2010 Sjursøya train crash - Sixteen goods wagons runaway for 8 km (5 mi) from a goods yard at Alnabu in Oslo, hitting and destroying a quayside warehouse. Three people died and four were seriously injured.[17]
30 March 2010 – Canada – No one is injured in a freight train derailment when three non-operating locomotives derail and nine freight cars go off the tracks near Pickering GO station.[18]
1 April 2010 – Slovakia – A locomotive runs into a stationary passenger train after its brakes fail during a test ride in Spišská Nová Ves, Slovakia, killing three people and seriously injuring eight.[19]
21 April 2010 – South Africa – Pretoria train accident - The coaches of a luxury tourist train operated by Rovos Rail run away and derail at Pretoria during a locomotive changeover. Three crew members died in the incident: two died at the scene while the third, a woman four months pregnant, died in the hospital. The accident left 9 passengers injured, six of them critically.[21]
4 May 2010 – Australia – A passenger train collides with a freight train approximately 3 km (2 mi) south of Craigieburn railway station, injuring 5.[22]
25 May 2010 – India – A passenger train derails at Naugachia, injuring eleven people.[25]
28 May 2010 – India – Jnaneswari Express train derailment - A train derails in the West Midnapore district of West Bengal, caused by either sabotage or a bomb that damaged the railway track, and was struck by an on-coming goods train, resulting in 148 passenger deaths.[26]
4 June 2010 – India – A mini bus is hit by the Coimbatore–Mettupalayam special train at an unmanned level-crossing at Idigarai near Coimbatore. Five people were killed in the accident.
17 June 2010 – India – A passenger train collides with a freight train at Peine. Sixteen people are injured.[32]
18 June 2010 – India – Eight coaches and two engines of the Vasco-Howrah Amaravati Express (8048) derail near Koppal in Karnataka, India after the train had struck a road roller at an un-manned level-crossing. Six people, including the drivers of the road roller and the train, are injured.[33]
20 June 2010 – South Africa – A steam-hauled passenger train from Pretoria to Cullinan derails near Cullinan due to defective track. A number of sleepers had been stolen. 15F4-8-2 No 3117 was severely damaged as it ended up lying on its side.[34]
28 June 2010 – Czech Republic – Ústí nad Labem derailment - A CityElefant passenger train from Prague to Ústí nad Labem derails while entering the Ústí nad Labem station, killing the driver and injuring 11 passengers. The cause of the derailment is unknown; the train's 108 km/h (67 mph) speed exceeded the local 50 km/h (31 mph) speed limit and may have been a factor.[38]
13 July 2010 – Poland – Two trains collide at Korzybie, north Poland, injuring 36.[39]
25 July 2010 – Netherlands – The driver and a second rail worker are injured when a Spenorailgrinder fails to stop in front of the buffer stop at Stavoren. A shop lying behind the track is demolished.[45]
6 August 2010 – Israel – A passenger train strikes a minibus near Kiryat Gat; seven people die and 20 are injured.[46]
17 August 2010 – United Kingdom – 2010 Little Cornard derailment - A sewage tanker lorry strikes and derails a passenger train (the 17.31 service from Sudbury to Marks Tey) on a level crossing at Little Cornard, Suffolk. Eighteen people are injured, two of them seriously.[47]
17 August 2010 – Germany – The Intercity-Express from Frankfurt to Paris hits a truck that had slid onto the railway near Lambrecht. The first two carriages derail and ten people are injured, one seriously.[48]
17 August 2010 – India – Four people die in a train accident on the Faizabad-Lucknow rail-section at Goryamau railway station of Barabanki district located between the towns of Rudauli and Rozagaon.[49]
25 August 2010 – South Africa – Blackheath level crossing accident - A Metrorail commuter train strikes a minibus taxi carrying children to school. Ten are killed and five injured. Witnesses state that the minibus drove around closed booms; the driver was charged with culpable homicide.[50] On 12 December 2011, the taxi driver was convicted in the Western Cape High Court on ten counts of murder and four counts of attempted murder and on 28 February 2012, the judge sentenced him to an effective 20 years imprisonment.[51]
10 September 2010 – United States – A conductor loses his arm when two trains collide in Fontana, California.[52]
12 September 2010 – Sweden – A woman dies, two people are seriously injured and 15 more are brought to hospital with minor injuries, when an X 2000 high speed train collides with a backhoe loader at Kimstad near Linköping.[53]
15 September 2010 – Belgium – Two trains collide at Aarlen, injuring 30–40 people, two seriously.[54]
25 September 2010 – New Zealand – A freight train derails after hitting a landslip in the Manawatu Gorge. The crew remained unhurt, but the line was closed for nine days while the slip was cleared.[55]
30 September 2010 – New Zealand – A Wellington commuter EMU derails after striking a landslip and is struck less than a minute later by a sister unit travelling on the opposite line. Two people are hospitalised and others suffer light injuries. The drivers of the two units were father-and-son.
2 October 2010 – Indonesia – 2010 Petarukan train collision - 36 people are killed and 60 are injured when a train runs into the back of another at Petarukan.
2 October 2010 – Indonesia – A train crashes at Solo killing one person.[57]
5 November 2010 – United Kingdom – Six passengers are injured when a lorry falls off an overbridge onto a passing train at Oxshott, Surrey (pictured). The driver of the lorry is seriously injured.[59]
8 December 2010 – Bangladesh – Two passenger trains are in a head-on collision near Narsingdi. Nineteen people are killed.[60][61]
23 December 2010 – Estonia – One person is killed and two are injured when a drunk former train driver takes control without permission of an empty passenger train and drives it in a head-on collision with a freight train near Aegviidu.
15 February 2011 – Germany – A collision occurred when two trains were being joined together at Berlin Ostbahnhof. One passenger was taken to hospital.[66]
17 February 2011 – Argentina – According to AOL News online, a train departing from Retiro station in the capital runs into the back of another train near San Miguel rail station. Four passengers die, one hundred and twenty are injured, fourteen severely. Federal Judge Juan Manuel Yalj is in charge of the investigation. Two of the four brakes from the Ferrobaires train's engine are reported un-usable because "one was blocked and the other had been locked and nailed down."[citation needed]
23 March 2011 – Germany – A passenger train collides with a lorry on a level crossing near Gronau. Fourteen passengers are injured.[69]
27 March 2011 – Canada – About 20 cars of a 116-car train derail Sunday afternoon near Port Hope en route to Toronto. Families in twenty houses flee and a major passenger rail corridor is shut down. One empty derailed car catches fire and burns for about an hour.[70]
28 March 2011 – United States – A CSX train travelling through Newton Falls, Ohio with an estimated 100-cars of mixed freight (including hoppers and tankers), suffers a 12-car derailment at approximately 07.00 (local time) Eastern Daylight Time. Three rail cars fall off a bridge and onto Center Street.[71] Several of the tank cars are carrying chlorine; none are involved in the derailment. Initial reports indicate that at least one car may have leaked ammonia, but officials do not believe that any hazardous materials have escaped into the environment. Residents within 150 metres of the incident are evacuated, and most roads leading into town are closed by law enforcement officers. Local HAZMAT officials arrive to assess the scene, and the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation opens an inquiry into the incident 'as a matter of standard procedure'.[72][73]
Netanya.
7 April 2011 – Israel – Two trains collide near Netanya, injuring 60 people.[74]
17 April 2011 – United States – A Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway train hauling 130-cars of coal from Wyoming to Chicago rear-ends another train hauling maintenance equipment near Red Oak, Iowa about 07.00 (local time) on Sunday 17 April 2011. The lead locomotive on the coal train derails and fire engulfs the cab. The crew of two, the conductor and engineer, on the coal train are killed. Ten cars on the maintenance train derail. The two crew members on the maintenance train are not injured. The line is heavily trafficked and is shut down for 24 hours, with trains re-routed. An investigation is conducted by the NTSB.[75][76]
27 April 2011 – Taiwan – Six people are killed and 61 injured in Alishan when a falling tree strikes a train carrying mostly tourists from mainland China.[77]
28 April 2011 – Poland – A train derails after hitting a lorry in Mosty, Pomeranian Voivodeship, killing two and injuring at least twenty people.[78]
20 May 2011 – South Africa – 857 people are injured, 25 seriously, when a rear-end collision occurs at Soweto.[79]
27 May 2011 – Japan – The limited-express train Super Ozora No. 14, en route from Kushiro to Sapporo in Hokkaido, catches fire in a tunnel on the Sekisho Line after the second car of the six-car formation derails. None of the 245 passengers and crew are killed, but 39 are treated for smoke inhalation or minor burn injuries, and the train is a total loss. It is the first in a series of incidents over the summer that lead to harsh criticism of JR Hokkaido's safety procedures, as well as the apparent suicide of the company president.[80]
24 June 2011 – United States – Miriam (near Reno), Nevada: Despite the working signals on the track, a semi, driving on a rural stretch of U.S. Route 95 near Reno and Sparks, strikes one of the cars of a west-bound California ZephyrAmtrak passenger train, killing at least six people, according to Nevada Highway Patrol Trooper Dan Lopez and the Churchill County Sheriff's Office (the driver of the semi, whose reason or motivation remains unclear at this time, and an Amtrak conductor on board the train are two confirmed deaths so far).[83]
7 July 2011 – India – A MathuraChhapra Express train rams into a bus carrying wedding guests around 02.00 at an un-manned railway crossing in Thanagaon, Kanshiram Nagar district, Uttar Pradesh, killing 38 and injuring thirty.[84]
10 July 2011 – India – The engine along with four coaches of the GuwahatiPuri Express derails between Rangiya and Ghagrapar, Nalbari district, Assam and capsizes in a rivulet, injuring more than one hundred people, twenty critically.[87]
11 July 2011 – United States – An Amtrak Downeaster passenger train from Boston, Massachusetts heading to Portland, Maine is struck by a dustbin lorry at a crossing in North Berwick, Maine, killing the driver of the lorry and setting the locomotive and one passenger car on fire.[88]
Wenzhou.
23 July 2011 – China – Wenzhou train collision – Due to signal failure, a high-speed train rear-ends a stopped high-speed train at a speed of 99 km/h (62 mph) near Wenzhou in the province of Zhejiang, killing forty people and injuring at least 192.[89] Six carriages derail, four carriages fall off a viaduct.[90]
26 July 2011 – Germany – A locomotive caught on fire within the Berlin Ostbahnhof around 15:40 CET. Traffic was interrupted for a few hours while the fire was fought down. There were no casualties, but the locomotive was destroyed and the coach coupled to it was damaged.[91][92]
26 July 2011 – Poland – Seven goods wagons roll uncontrolled 2 km (1.2 mi) and then derail and crash into a Strzelce Krajenskie Wschód railway station building. Three people die.[93]
31 July 2011 – India – The engine and some coaches of the GuwahatiBangalore Express derail and are hit by another train in Malda district, West Bengal. At least three people are killed and two hundred are injured.[94]
8 August 2011 – Switzerland – A passenger train and locomotive collide at Döttingen. Twenty-two people are injured. The passenger train had passed a signal at danger.[95]
12 August 2011 – Poland – 2011 Baby derailment – A passenger train with 280 passengers derails due to high speed at Baby, Piotrków County, killing one passenger and injuring 84.[96]
31 August 2011 – India – Two goods trains collide near Tangiriapal railway station, about 65 km (40 mi) from Keonjhar on the Jakhapura-Banspani railway line around 01.30. Five members of the train crew are killed.[97]
13 September 2011 – India – A passenger train fails to slow at a signal and slams into a stationary cargo train near Chennai, Tamil Nadu, killing ten and injuring fifty-two.[98]
13 September 2011 – Argentina – 2011 Flores rail crash – In the Floresbarrio of Buenos Aires, a bus crashes into a train, which derails and collides with a second train, killing eleven and injuring 228, twenty severely. Lights were flashing but the crossing barriers may have been blocked from fully lowering.[99][100]
15 September 2011 – Argentina – A collision in Buenos Aires between a bus, a concrete mixer and a light-rail train injures 90 people during morning rush-hour traffic.[101]
Alawwa.
17 September 2011 – Sri Lanka – 2011 Alawwa rail accident – A passenger train rams into an observation car at the back of another train near Alawwa, about 60 km (37 mi) northeast of Colombo, killing three and injuring 30+.[102]
Olten.
6 October 2011 – Switzerland – Two trains collide at Olten. Two people are injured.[95]
7 October 2011 – United States – 26 cars of a 131-car freight train derail and explode near Tiskilwa in Bureau County, Illinois, approximately 160 kilometres (99 mi) west of Chicago. No injuries are reported; 800 people are evacuated.[103][104]
31 October 2011 – Malaysia – A Sabah State Railway train carrying 200 passengers collides with a petrol tanker in Kota Kinabalu resulting in an explosion injuring twelve passengers.[106]
1 November 2011 – Moldova – A bus collided with a train in Anenii Noi, killing eight people and leaving a dozen injured, all the casualties were on the bus.[107]
2 November 2011 – Argentina – A freight train collides with a school bus in a rural area of San Luis Province, eight girls are killed and 41 are injured.[108]
22 November 2011 – India – A fire on board a Doon Express train in Jharkhand destroys two coaches, killing seven people including one Australian woman.[109]
28 November 2011 – Netherlands – a Sprinter collides with a stationary Sprinter at Leiden Centraal. Three passengers are injured.[110]
27 December 2011 – Australia – Flood waters from Tropical Cyclone Grant wash away the southern abutment of the Edith River bridge, derailing a northbound Genesee & Wyoming Australia intermodal freight train on its way to Darwin near Katherine, south of Darwin, injuring one crew member. A crew van and five wagons fall into the river.[111][112][113]
2012
6 January 2012 – United States – Three CSX freight trains collide in a remote section of Porter County, Indiana resulting in a fire and possible HAZMAT situation. Two injuries are reported.[114]
11 January 2012 – India– Five persons were killed and nine others injured in a collision between the Delhi-bound Brahmaputra Mail and a stationary goods train.
13 January 2012 – Germany – A passenger train of Nord-Ostsee-Bahn collides with a herd of cattle on the track from Sylt island to Hamburg, near Bargum, Nordfriesland. One passenger dies and three are injured.[115][116]
17 January 2012 – Canada – two freight trains collide 55 kilometres (34 mi) north of Hinton, Alberta.[117]
17 January 2012 – United States – A BNSF freight train collides with a tractor trailer in northeast Montana, causing ten rail cars to derail, including four locomotives and blocking the traffic on the rail line.[118]
19 January 2012 – Spain – A commuter train collides with an empty train at Barcelona Clot Aragó station after the first train failed to obey a restriction signal. six people are injured.[119]
20 January 2012 – Canada – Eighteen CN freight train cars derail near the hamlet of Hay Lakes, Alberta. No hazardous goods are on the train.[120]
21 January 2012 – Canada – CN train derails roughly halfway across the Wainwright, Alberta railway bridge. 31 grain cars derail, 17 of them fall off the bridge and into the valley below.[117]
1 February 2012 – United States – The Amtrak Wolverine train from Pontiac, Michigan to Chicago, carrying 71 passengers and 5 crew, strikes a stalled tractor trailer (carrying equipment for oil production) on tracks in Leoni Township, Michigan. The lead engine and at least two cars derail. There are no fatalities, and six people suffer non-life-threatening injuries, according to the Jackson Citizen Patriot and the Blackman-Leoni Public Safety Department.[121]
3 February 2012 – India – A passenger train derails after striking a construction vehicle in the Indian state of Assam, killing three people and injuring fifty.[122]
9 February 2012 – Spain – A commuter train crashes into a buffer stop at Mataró station, 30 km (19 mi) northeast of Barcelona. The driver is seriously injured and ten passengers are injured.[123]
Nykirke
15 February 2012 – Norway – A brand-new passenger train derails near Nykirke after going far too fast on the Vestfold Line, because of driver error. Five crew members are injured. There are no passengers on board. There is no automatic surveillance of most curve speed limits on this line.[124]
3 March 2012 – Poland – Szczekociny rail crash – Two passenger trains derail in a head-on collision near Szczekociny. sixteen people die and 58 are injured.[127]
6 March 2012 – Ireland – A number of detonators explode in the driver's kit in the train cab of a DART train, injuring the train driver's hands and possibly his hearing. Train drivers carry 10 detonators for safety reasons; they are placed on tracks if there has been an accident or engineering works to notify other train drivers. These should only explode with the force of a train going over them. They are replaced every 5 years and the ones in question had been replaced just over a year before. Irish Rail have withdrawn all detonators that were replaced January 2011 as a precaution. The train was taken out of service as there was damage to the train cab.[128][129]
26 March 2012 – India – A loco pilot of a Mainline Electric Multiple Unit (MEMU) train and a truck driver were killed when the speeding passenger train rammed into a boulder-ferrying truck at the Kannamangala gate on the outskirts of Bangalore.
13 April 2012 – Germany – A regional train on its way from Frankfurt to Hanau collides with a railway maintenance vehicle (a combined excavator and crane as a road-rail vehicle) on the same track. This accident near Offenbach claims the lives of the train's driver and of two construction workers. 12 train passengers and one conductor sustain injuries; several of these have to be treated in a hospital. The investigation finds that the excavator had been deployed onto the wrong track: not the one reserved for construction works, but on the live track.[130][131][132]
31 May 2012 – India – Mahrawa derailment – four people die and over fifty are injured in the Mahrawa derailment of the Doon express in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.[137]
12 June 2012 – Germany – A tram ran full speed into two waiting trams at a tramstop in Essen. The operator of the tram was unable to stop within time to avoid a collision. 28 people are injured.[138]
24 June 2012 – United States – Three crew members were killed when two Union Pacific trains slammed into each other just east of Goodwell, about 480 kilometres northwest of Oklahoma City. The crash triggered a diesel-fueled fireball that appeared to weld the locomotives together.[139][140]
4 July 2012 – United States – A Union Pacific coal train heading to Wisconsin derails, collapsing an overpass on Shermer Road in Glenview, Illinois at about 13.45. A day later, a couple, having been crushed by the falling coal and cars, are found dead in their car buried beneath the rubble.[141]
11 July 2012 – United States – A Norfolk Southern train with 2 locomotives and 98 cars derails in Columbus, Ohio, near the Ohio State Fairgrounds at 02.05 CDT. The resulting explosion, caused in part due to the burning of 76,000 litres (17,000 imperial gallons) of ethanol, causes a mile-wide evacuation. At the time of the explosion, two nearby individuals are injured; they drive themselves to hospital.[142]
12 July – United Kingdom – A passenger train collides with cattle on the line at Letterston, Pembrokeshire and is derailed. There are no injuries amongst those on board.[143]
17 July 2012 – Egypt – A passenger train strikes wooden planks and chunks of metal put down by people to cross the tracks and derails at Giza, near Cairo, injuring fifteen passengers.[145]
19 July 2012 – India – – One person was killed, four were injured seriously, and nine sustained minor injuries in a collision between a local train and Vidarbha Express near Khardi station near Nashik on Mumbai-Kasara route.
6 August 2012 – Argentina – At least 35 people are injured, six seriously, when a train derails and crashes into an electricity pylon in a central station of Retiro in the city of Buenos Aires.[148]
21 August 2012 – United States – Two women celebrating the night before their return to university on a railway bridge die shortly after midnight when a CSX coal train derails on the bridge in downtown Ellicott City, Maryland, burying the women under coal.[149] The NTSB investigation attributed the probable cause of the derailment to a broken rail.[150]
30 August 2012 – United Kingdom – A passenger train strikes a landslide and derails at St. Bees, Cumbria.[151]
8 September – Romania – A passenger train collided with a tractor on a level crossing near Chilieni, Covasna [ro]. Fifteen people were on a trailer that the tractor was pulling. Eight people, including the tractor driver, were killed.[152][153]
11 September 2012 – Netherlands – A HTM city tram crashed into the back of another HTM city tram at an intersection near the railroad station of The Hague Hollands Spoor. Both were carrying a good amount of passengers. 36 people got injured, including one of the operators.[154]
14 September 2012 – Australia – At 6.32am, a northbound Queensland Rail passenger train collided with a heavy vehicle that had become grounded on the St Vincents Road level crossing at Banyo. The driver of the heavy vehicle sustained serious injuries.[155]
24 September 2012 – Italy – The train driver died, and 25 passengers were injured when a high-speed Freccia Argento train, travelling between Rome and Lecce collided with a lorry at a level crossing in Cisternino. The lorry driver was arrested and charged with manslaughter.[156]
1 October 2012 – United States – In California Amtrak Train 712, travelling from Oakland, CA to Bakersfield, CA, is hit by a lorry carrying cotton at a gated level crossing. Three of the train's five cars as well as the trailing GE P42DC locomotive, #94, derailed. No deaths, 50 injuries.
4 October 2012 – Indonesia – A commuter train from Bogor to Jakarta derailed in Cilebut station. The train used a former Tokyo Metro 05 series EMU. No injuries reported, but the third car was damaged following the accident.
23 October 2012 – Indonesia – Prambanan Express train derailed between Brambanan – Maguwo, the first car (women-only coach) was derailed and followed by another cars.
26 October 2012 – Philippines – Bicol Express train, bound for Ligao City was derailed a little past midnight in a flooded area of in Sariaya, Quezon, injuring eight of the 128 passengers rescued from the wreckage.[157]
26 October 2012 – Slovakia – Two trains collided between railway stations Bratislava-Vinohrady and Bratislava-Main Station, leaving 23 injured. At 15:24 local time, passenger train Os2018 hit from astern another passenger train Os4618 that had stopped on the track. Preliminary investigation suspects the driver of the train Os2018 to cause the crash.[158]
29 October 2012 – United States – Thirteen cars of a 57-car Paducah & Louisville (P&L) freight train derail near West Point, Kentucky. A tank car loaded with butadiene leaked and later caught fire while workers were repairing the track. No deaths, 5 injured. On 31 October, the train derailment exploded at 13:30 causing evacuations to be ordered in a 2 kilometre radius and an 8 kilometre radius to stay indoors. 3 were seriously burned in the explosion.
1 November 2012 – Ukraine – Passenger train Kyiv-Sevastopol derails near Zaporizhzhia. There were 34 passengers in the overturned carriage, including 12 children. There are no victims in the accident.[159]
3 November 2012 – Australia – A Metro Trains MelbourneComeng collides with a lorry at the Abbotts Road level crossing in Dandenong South on the Cranbourne line. The train is derailed and the first car 306M ends up on its side. One passenger fatality due to a heart attack and 8 with minor injuries, and the driver was seriously injured. The lorry driver is uninjured.[160]
4 November 2012 – United Kingdom – A passenger train from Edinburgh to Aberdeen derails at Inverkeilor, Angus with one minor injury reported. The cause is believed to be non-accidental.[161]
5 November 2012 – Moldova – A wedding minibus collides with a passenger train Bender-Chișinău in Merenii Noi, Moldova, leaving four people dead and six injured.[162]
9 November 2012 – Burma – 2012 Burma train crash – A train carrying liquid fuel and travelling from central Mandalay to Myitkyina in the north crashes and bursts into flames near Kantbalu in central Burma; at least 27 people die and more than 80 are injured[163]
15 November 2012 – United States – Midland train crash – Around 16.30 four people die and 16 others are injured when a Union Pacific train strikes a parade float headed to an event honouring wounded veterans in Midland, Texas.[164][165]
17 November 2012 – Egypt – Manfalut railway accident – A school bus carrying about 60 pre-school children is hit by a train near Manfalut, 350 km (230 miles) south of the capital Cairo. At least 50 children and the bus driver die in the crash; more than a dozen people are injured. The Egyptian minister of transport, Mohamed Rashad Al Matini, resigns.[166]
22 November 2012 – South Korea – A subway train rear ends another in Busan, South Korea, injuring 40.[167]
29 November 2012 – United States, Amtrak train 91 The Silver Star carrying 153 people to Miami slams into a dump truck in Orlando, Florida splitting it in half. The dump truck driver dies and the engine of The Silver Star is damaged. 10 passengers are hospitalized for minor injuries. Witnesses say that the truck driver failed to stop at a stop sign, and authorities claim the train was not speeding at the time of the impact. The rest of the passengers are taken to a downtown Orlando station.
30 November 2012 – United States – One of three daily trains that cross an old style swing bridge derails near Paulsboro, New Jersey, resulting in one car leaking vinyl chloride into the air. The NTSB Report found the conductor was not trained how to tell if the bridge was locked after it had malfunctioned. About 100 people were treated for exposure to the chemical. Equipment damage estimates were $451,000. The emergency response and remediation costs totaled about $30 million.[170]
17 December 2012 – United States – A BNSF intermodal train from Chicago derails when a landslide strikes it in Everett, Washington. This event is captured on video.[171][172]
19 December 2012 – Germany – Around 20:20 CET, two freight trains tore through a broken-down bus and then derailed at a level crossing in Düsseldorf. There were no casualties, but the bus driver had to be treated for shock.[173][174]
15 January 2013 – Egypt – Badrashin railway accident – A passenger train derailed at Giza and collided with a freight train. 29 people died and 230 were injured.[176][177]
2013 Saltsjöbanan train crash
15 January 2013 – Sweden – 2013 Saltsjöbanan train crash – A passenger train on the Saltsjöbanan overran a set of buffer stops and crashed into a block of flats at Stockholm.[178] While it was first announced that a cleaner had driven the train without authority, further investigations revealed that she accidentally started the train that was parked in a depot without proper safety measures.[179][180] She was seriously injured, no one else was injured.
21 January 2013 – Austria – Two Vienna S-Bahn trains packed with morning commuters collided on a single-track stretch of line between Hütteldorf and Penzing in Vienna's suburbs in eastern Austria, leaving 41 people injured, five of them seriously. Among the injured was the driver of one of the trains. Both trains were operating the Line S45 service, and both trains were made up of 4024-series rolling stock.[181][182][183][184]
21 January 2013 – Portugal – Alfarelos train crash - An InterCity train from Lisbon to Porto collides with a Regional train that it was supposed to overtake, after both trains fail to stop before a signal on red at Alfarelos, leaving 25 people injured.[185][186]
31 January 2013 – Australia – A passenger train overshot the railway line and collided with Cleveland railway station, severely damaging a toilet block and injuring 14 people.[188][189][190] The train was removed from the station in the early hours of the following morning.[191]
31 January 2013 – South Africa – Two passenger trains packed with school children and rush-hourcommuters collided near Pretoria, South Africa, injuring up to 300 people, 28 of them seriously.[192][193][194] A moving train slammed into the back of a stationary train near Kalafong station.[195]
21 March 2013 – United Kingdom – 1 man dies after his car is struck by a High Speed Train at Athelney level Crossing in Somerset.[198] It is suspected that the driver attempted to weave around the half-lane barriers.[199]
10 April 2013 – India – Seven compartments of the 15228 Muzaffarpur-Yeshvantpur Weekly Express derailed near Arakkonam, 40 km from Chennai killing one passenger and leaving another seriously injured.
16 April 2013 – France – At 08:30 a regional EMU travelling from Miramas to Marseille crashes at 30 kph into a crane-lorry on a level crossing. The crane driver is seriously injured and thirty two passengers have minor injuries.[200]
26 April 2013 – United States – At a rural Buffalo & Pittsburgh Railroad crossing, in Butler County, Pennsylvania (near Pittsburgh), an Allegheny Valley Railroad freight train carrying asphalt (with 2 locomotives, 29 cars; traveling at the 25 mph limit) strikes an Alliance for Nonprofit Resources Inc. Butler Area Rural Transit Authority bus carrying impaired seniors and younger adults at the Maple Street intersection. It's unclear whether the bus stopped on or before the tracks; the train's brakes are believed to have been applied and the horn to have sounded. Two people are flown by helicopter to area trauma centres–one was in critical condition, and a 91-year-old woman dies later at Allegheny General Hospital. Ten others, including the bus driver, are also hospitalised.[201]
30 April 2013 – Chile – A freight train derails near Collipulli and is then assaulted by men with fireweapons.[202][203] Interior minister Andrés Chadwick says the Chilean Antiterrorist Law would be applied to those responsible for the attack.[202]
2 May 2013 – Serbia – Two passenger trains collide in a tunnel between Novi Beograd and Zemun. The two trains running in the same direction, one from Belgrade to Novi Sad, strike another running from Belgrade to Šid at 13.30 CET. No fatalities are reported, many are injured.[204][205]
3 May 2013 – Belgium – A freight train derails in Schellebelle near Ghent. Three wagons carrying acrylonitrile explode and catch fire. One person dies and 33 are injured from toxic fumes in local neighbourhoods.[206]
20 May 2013 – New Zealand – A morning peak Tranz Metro EMU commuter train derails near central Wellington after part of the undercarriage comes loose, puncturing a hole in the carriage floor in the process. Four people are injured and thousands of commuters affected as services are cancelled and 26 trains are withdrawn from service out of safety concerns.[208]
28 May 2013 – United States – A freight train derails outside Rosedale, Maryland, just outside Baltimore after colliding with a garbage truck. Fifteen cars from the CSX train Q409 derail and two catch fire. An explosion damages nearby buildings. Only the truck driver is injured. Those within a 20-block radius of the crash site are asked to evacuate. Hazardous materials crews are sent to the scene. The National Transportation Safety Board sends a team to investigate the accident.[211]
4 June 2013 – Denmark – A morning train collides with a tractor close to a crossing near the city of Holbæk. The tractor driver dies and six train passengers are injured.[212]
20 June 2013 – Canada – A rail bridge in Calgary, Alberta, weakened by recent flooding, collapses with 4 empty tank cars hanging just above the still swollen Bow River. No one is injured, and the cars are removed safely.
6 July 2013 – Canada – Lac-Mégantic rail disaster – A freight train containing 72 tank cars of crude oil runs away while unattended and derails in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec. Several cars explode, destroying over 30 buildings in the town's centre, roughly half of the downtown area, and requiring the demolition of all but three of the remainder of the buildings in the downtown area due to contamination by petroleum from the train; these combine to require the evacuation of 2,000 people, a third of the town's population. 42 are confirmed killed, along with 5 missing and presumed dead, making this the fourth-deadliest rail accident in Canadian history, and the deadliest since Canadian Confederation in 1867.
6 July 2013 – Pakistan – At least 14 people die and one person is injured when a rickshaw collides with a train near Shekhupura, Punjab, at a level crossing.[213]
12 July 2013 – France – Brétigny-sur-Orge train crash – A passenger train with 385 passengers is derailed at speed by a track defect soon after leaving Paris, and smashes into a station platform. Six are confirmed dead and almost 200 are injured.[215]
12 July 2013 – France – Bessines-sur-Gartempe – A train carrying nuclear waste derails and travels about 90 m (300 ft) before coming to a stop. It is reported that the Le Populaire du Centre newspaper received a message from an unknown anti-nuclear group taking responsibility for the Areva train derailment, although its authenticity was not confirmed.[216]
25 July 2013 – Pakistan – A passenger train travelling from Lahore to Rawalpindi overshoots and runs aground on a closed track in Gujranwala, Punjab; at least 2 people die and many are injured.[222]
5 August 2013 – United States – More than 20 cars of Union Pacific train derail in Louisiana near Lawtell.[224]
19 August 2013 – India – A high-speed Rajya Rani Express crashes into a crowd of Hindu pilgrims crossing the tracks at a remote station in the Saharsa District east India; 37 people die, more are injured.
25 August 2013 – Mexico – A cargo train ridden by Central American migrants heading to the U.S. derails in a remote region of southern Mexico in the Tabasco state; at least five die, at least 35 are injured. A number of people are trapped.[225]
2 September 2013 – Netherlands – The operator of a local train of Nederlandse Spoorwegen ignored a red light and was traveling way beyond the speed limit. The Automatic Train Control system didn't work. Therefore, the train severely damaged a turnout and ended up on the wrong track almost colliding with an intercity train at high speed. The train operators of both trains activated the brake systems just in time, thus avoiding a collision.[226][227]
16 September 2013 – United States – A freight train derails near Seville, Illinois when a bridge over the Spoon River collapses under it.[228]
9 October 2013 – United States – A Union Pacific train hits a stalled tractor trailer carrying pipes in Midland, Texas. The accident caused the pipes to go flying and 100 gallons of diesel fuel from the locomotive to leak. Accident was caught on tape. No injuries.[232]
15 October 2013 – United Kingdom – A freight train derails and runs for four miles until it is stopped at Gloucester. An investigation finds the cause to be poor track condition and an inadequate maintenance regime.[234]
24 October 2013 – United States – One person dies when four freight cars loaded with gravel derail at the SunRail station on State Road 46 in Sanford, Florida.[237]
31 October 2013 – Kenya – At least eleven people died and thirty-four people are injured in Nairobi when a passenger train runs into bus at a high rate of speed. Lack of proper safety measures at a railway crossing is listed as a possible cause.[238]
2 November 2013 – India – 10 people died and 20 were injured as they were run over by 13352 Alapuzha-Dhanbad express, in Vizianagaram district. The victims had alighted the 57271 Vijayawada-Rayagadatrain onto the tracks at Gotlam station when they heard a rumour that a compartment was on fire and they did not see the coming train.
8 November 2013 – United States – A 90-car freight train carrying crude oil from the Bakken shale patch in North Dakota (possibly similar to the type carried in the July 2013 Lac-Mégantic derailment in Quebec, Canada), from Amory, Mississippi to a refinery in Walnut Hill, Florida, derails and explodes in the morning in Pickens County, Alabama (west AL); the flames, which shot upward 300 feet high, were left to burn themselves out, which may take up to 24 hours. There were no fatalities or injuries.[239]
13 November 2013 – India – A herd of 40 elephants was struck by a passenger train in Chapramari Wildlife Sanctuary.
15 November 2013 – India – 13 Coaches of Ernakulam Bound 12618 Mangala Lakshadweep Superfast Express were derailed near Ghoti village. 3 to 4 people died and dozens were injured.
20 November 2013 – United Kingdom – A passenger train collides with the buffers at Chester railway station, Cheshire. One passenger is injured.[240]
30 November 2013 – United States – Southwestern Railroad (New Mexico) train derails outside Silver City, New Mexico, resulting in the death of the conductor Steven "Steve" Crose, 60, engineer Donald "D.A." White, 38, and ride-along passenger Ann Thompson, 50. The train is leaving a mine operated by Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold on a 6% slope when it experiences braking failure. Traveling out of control for miles, the locomotive, which contains all three occupants, eventually leaves the track on a curve completely disconnecting from the eight cars heavily loaded with magnetite and slides into an arroyo (creek). All three occupants of the locomotive are killed immediately on impact and must be extricated from the badly damaged locomotive by emergency responders. The eight freight cars continue on the track a short distance before stopping. It is originally reported that all three occupants are male employees,[241] but a correction later specifies that the female ride-along passenger was not an employee.[242]
5 December 2013 – United States – A runaway Canadian National ore train rear-ends an ore train in Two Harbors, Minnesota. Two crew members jumped clear and two crew members were hospitalized when they stayed in a trailing locomotive.
9 December 2013 – Indonesia – A commuter train bound for Tanah Abang from Maja (Train number KA 1131, using Tokyo Metro 7000 series set 7021) collides with a truck loaded with oil, which explodes. Five people die; another is seriously injured. The accident is caused by the truck driver attempting cross the grade crossing shortly before being hit by an oncoming train from Pondok Ranji. The accident occurred at Grade Crossing number 57 at the S curve between Kebayoran and Pondok Ranji Station. The train involved is immediately written off because of major damage to car 7121 (7221 received minor damage)[245][246][247][248]
22 December 2013 – Kenya – A cargo train derailed in the Nairobi slum of Kibera several people are injured.[249][250]
27 December 2013 – Canada – Seven rail cars of a CN freight train derailed while passing through the Wainwright Rail Yard at low speed. Three empty grain cars came completely off the tracks; the other four remained upright, with some damage to an auto rack car. No damage was apparent to an overpass that the train was passing under.[251]
28 December 2013 – India – At least 26 died and 12 were injured when an AC coach of the 16594 Bangalore City-Hazur Sahib Nanded express caught fire near Kothacheruvu in Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh.
30 December 2013 – United States – Casselton train derailment – Several grain cars from a westbound train derail and strike an eastbound train carrying crude oil on an adjoining track near Casselton, North Dakota. Several crude oil cars explode, resulting in large clouds of black smoke which forced an evacuation of the area. No casualties were reported.[252]
2014
7 January 2014 – Canada – A CN train carrying crude oil and propane derails near Plaster Rock, New Brunswick. The resulting fire forces an evacuation of the area within a two-kilometre radius. No injuries are reported.[253][254]
7 January 2014 – United States– A CTAYellow Line passenger train derails in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The two-car train derailed in the early afternoon, briefly disrupting late afternoon rush hour traffic. No injuries were reported.[255]
11 January 2014 – Canada – A CP train carrying metallurgic coal derails in Burnaby. Seven cars of a 157 car train derail and spill coal into a fish-bearing stream.[256]
13 January 2014 – United States– A BNSF train derails near Kent, Washington after a landslide. The landslide also disrupted Amtrak and Sound Transit passenger rail service.[257]
15 January 2014 – Netherlands– A passenger train from Dutch Railways derails near the central station of Hilversum. The train was carrying approx. 550 passengers. No injuries were reported.[258][259]
17 January 2014 – United States – A BNSF train hauling fruits, vegetables and empty intermodal cars derails near Williston, North Dakota. The derailment also disrupted Amtrak passenger rail service between Minot, North Dakota and Havre, Montana. No injuries were reported.[260]
17 January 2014 – United States – A CSX train carrying coal derails near Dunnellon, Florida. Twelve cars of the 100-car train derailed in a rural area. The train was transporting the coal to the Duke EnergyCrystal River Energy Complex. No injuries were reported.[261]
19 January 2014 – United States – A Union Pacific train carrying coal derails near Caledonia, Wisconsin. Nineteen cars of the 135-car train derailed. The cause is believed to be cracked rails caused by unusually cold winter conditions. No injuries were reported.[262]
20 January 2014 – United States – A CSX train carrying crude oil derails in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Seven cars of a 101-car train derailed on a bridge over the Schuylkill Expressway, causing the road to be shut down for brief periods of time as emergency crews drained the tankers. No injuries were reported.[263]
21 January 2014 – Netherlands – An empty, out-of-service tram/LRT vehicle of HTM's Randstadrail service crashed into an in-service tram/LRT Randstadrail vehicle at a tram stop. 4 passengers were injured.[264]
22 January 2014 – United States – A BNSF train transporting 18 empty intermodal rail cars derails inside the Lindenwood Yard in St. Louis, Missouri. No injuries were reported and the derailment was cleared the same day.[265]
23 January 2014 – United States – A BNSF train carrying corn derails near Ross, North Dakota. The derailment of eleven cars disrupted transportation of crude oil from the Bakken oil formation to ports in Montana. No injuries were reported.[266]
25 January 2014 – United States – A Union Pacific freight train derails near Morrow, Louisiana. No injuries were reported, and no chemical or hazardous materials were reported as spilled.[267]
27 January 2014 – Canada – A CN train hauling liquefied petroleum gas, clay, and automobiles derails near the Saint-Basile community of Edmunston, New Brunswick. Five cars left the tracks, three carrying automobiles, and one each of LPG and clay. No injuries were reported.[268]
27 January 2014 – United States – A Union Pacific train carrying scrap paper derails near Pollard Flat, California. Only one box car in the four-car train was carrying cargo, with no cargo spillage. The derailment caused disruption to Amtrak passenger rail service, resulting in riders being transported via buses between Oregon and California.[269]
28 January 2014 – United States – A CN train carrying plastic pellets derails near Mundelein, Illinois. One set of wheels on a hopper in a 110-car train derailed on a single lane track, resulting in disruptions of service over two days for several passenger and freight services as trains needed to be rerouted.[270]
28 January 2014 – United States – A CSX train carrying phosphoric acid derails near McDavid, Florida. 23 of the 69 cars derailed, resulting in the destruction of the tracks and bridge over Fletcher Creek, and chemicals leaking into the water. No injuries were reported.[271]
30 January 2014 – United States – A NS train transporting 179 empty coal cars derailed near Jewell Ridge, Virginia. No injuries were reported, and the accident was cleared on the same day.[272]
31 January 2014 – United States – A CN train carrying crude oil, methane and liquid fertilizer derails near New Augusta, Mississippi. 18 to 24 cars of the 85-car train derailed and began leaking. The derailment occurred in a rural area, but resulted in 12 families being evacuated and four lanes of U.S. 98 closed as emergency responders began to clean up the spill. No injuries were reported.[273]
4 February 2014 – Ukraine – 2014 Ukraine train bus collision - Bus driver ignores flashing crossing signals killing 13 and injuring 6.
8 February 2014 – France – Annot derailment - A train derails between Digne-les-Bains and Nice when it is hit by a rock that rolled down the mountainside. Two people die and seven are injured.[274]
15 February 2014 – Japan – Two commuter trains, operating in heavy snow and limited vision, bound for Yokohama Motomachi, collide. A subsequent two-car train derails in Motosumiyoshi Station, Tokyu Toyoko Line, Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture. 19 persons are injured.[275]
17 March 2014 – Netherlands – A passenger train from Syntus crashes into the trailer of a truck that got stuck at a railroad crossing near the town of Almen. The truck driver escapes just in time. 3 train passengers are injured. The train was carrying 100 people.[276]
17 March 2014 – Netherlands – A tram/LRT vehicle of HTM's Randstadrail service crashes into a city tram on an intersection near the city border with Delft. 20 people are injured, one of them severely.[277]
20 March 2014 – India – An 18-year-old student was killed while nine persons were injured when six coaches of a local train derailed after getting uncoupled from the rest of the train at Titwala.
5 April 2014 – Indonesia – Tasikmalaya derailment – The Kereta Api Indonesia passenger train Malabar derails after it is struck by a landslide, killing three and injuring 35.
13 April 2014 – China – 15 people are sent to hospital after a passenger train derails in Northeast China's Heilongjiang province.[279]
16 April 2014 – Estonia – A truck crashes into Elron's train Stadler Flirt at Raasiku railway crossing. The train was heading from Tallinn to Tartu. Truck driver and one passenger are killed, 12 people are injured.[280]
30 April 2014 – United States – CSX derailment: 15 tankers carrying crude oil derail and catch fire in Lynchburg, Virginia, striking fears of water contamination in the local area and beyond.[281]
1 May 2014 – United States – CSX coal train derailed three locomotives and 10 cars in Bowie, MD.[282]
10 May 2014 – United States – A train traveling in Colorado derails and spills 6,500 US gallons (25,000 L; 5,400 imp gal) of oil west of LaSalle, Colorado.[285]
20 May 2014 – Russia – Naro-Fominsk rail crash - Near Naro-Fominsk, a freight train derails and fouls an adjacent line. A passenger train runs into it, killing nine and injuring around 50 people.[286]
4 July 2014 – United States – 19 cars of a Montana Rail Link train, carrying manufactured plane parts, soybeans, and alcohol from Kansas City, Kansas to Renton, Washington, derail. 3 airplane fuselages spill into a local river. No injuries are reported, and the nearby river pass and fishing gorge is closed to remove debris.[290]
12 July 2014, – Bulgaria – A long distance passenger train derails at Kaloyanovets station, killing the driver and injuring 14 others. The train passed through turnouts set to diverging track at 104 km/h, 2.5 times over the limit of 40 km/h. EBICAB-700 protection system was available but wasn't turned on and the driver was not trained to use it.[291][292]
17 July 2014 – France – Denguin rail crash - A TGV train collides with a regional TER train near Denguin in south western France. Several casualties are reported.[294]
Mannheim
24 July 2014 – India – Medak district bus-train collision – A school bus is hit by Nanded Passenger train at an unmanned railway level crossing in Masaipet village of Medak district. 18 bus passengers died including 16 students.
17 August 2014 – United States – two Union Pacific locomotives hit head on, in Hoxie, Arkansas, killing two crewmen and injuring two others. Several cars derail, resulting in a fire that causes the evacuation of 500 residents.[297]
22 August 2014 – Australia – a V/line V/locity (carrying just the driver and conductor) runs into a Metro Trains Comeng from Werribee to Flinders Street (carrying 60 passengers) between former stations Galvin and Paisley on the express section of the Werribee line. 9 were injured in the collision.[298]
30 September 2014 – India – the Lucknow–Barauni Express is rear-ended near Gorakhpur by the following train, the Krishak Express, which should have stopped at a red signal. At least 12 die and 46 are injured, 12 critically.[299]
5 October 2014 – United States – a Norfolk Southern freight train slams into a lowboy trailer in Mer Rouge, LA, seriously injuring both railroad crew and causing two engines along with 17 cars to derail. 50 homes are evacuated for about two hours due to the leakage of argon gas from the tank car.[300]
7 October 2014 – Canada – A CN train hauling dangerous goods derails near Clair, Saskatchewan. Twenty six of the 100 rail cars derail, two of which leaki petroleum distillate and catch fire. The approximately 50 residences of Clair and surrounding farms are evacuated and Highway 5 is shut down.[301]
16 October 2014 – United States – An excursion train of the Arkansas-Missouri Railroad stalls on the mainline near West Fork, Arkansas; the crew of the locomotive sent to help the train does not have the precise location of the stalled train and runs into the stalled train's locomotive after rounding a curve. 44 people are injured in the collision, 5 critically.[302][303] An NTSB team was dispatched to investigate.[304]
28 October 2014 – United States – 24 were injured when an Amtrak train collides with a semi truck on U.S. Route 421.[305]
6 November 2014 – Canada – A QNSL train hits a landslide, causing the lead locomotives to derail, falling down an embankment into a river near Sept-Îles, Quebec. The lone engineer was killed.[306][307]
22 November 2014 – Kazakhstan – A truck driver dies after two trains hit a truck at a level crossing. Four empty freight cars were derailed. The event was caught on video from a CCTV camera. The CCTV footage showed that the driver of the truck was unable to stop in time due to icy road conditions.[308]
14 December 2014 – India – 11 sleeper coaches and a pantry car (AC Hot Buffer Car) of the 12381 UP Howrah – New Delhi Poorva Express derail at 8.27 am after leaving Howrah at 8.15 am. There was no casualty or injury.
2015
7 January – Canada – A CN freight train hauling 114 cars heading east from Edmonton, Alberta to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan derails between the community of Jarrow, Alberta and village of Irma. Twenty-three cars derail, of which one begins leaking a non-dangerous liquid adhesive. The ensuing cleanup resulted in the temporary closure of a section of Highway 14.[309]
16 February – Canada – A CN freight train transporting crude oil derails 80 km south of Timmins, Ontario. 29 of 100 cars derail, and seven crude oil tank cars catch fire. There are no injuries and the burning oil is contained to the area.[314]
22 February – United Kingdom – The London to Penzance express hits remains of a stone bridge parapet in Froxfield, Wiltshire. A police emergency number operator, improperly trained, sent police to investigate the truck hitting the parapet and should have also contacted the local rail control centre.[317]
2 March – United States – A Union Pacific train hauling hazardous material derails near Meacham, Oregon; 10 cars jump the tracks in a narrow canyon overlooking Meacham Creek.[321]
5 March – United States – A BNSF oil train derails in a rural area near Galena, Illinois. Twenty-one of the 105 cars, containing Bakken formationcrude oil, leave the track and catch fire, which continues to burn. No injuries are reported.[322]
6 March – Netherlands – A passenger train runs into the rear of a freight train between Tilburg Universiteit and Tilburg stations. A few passengers suffer slight injuries.[323]
7 March – Canada – A CN freight train derails near the small Northern Ontario village of Gogama, Ontario. Forty of 100 cars derail, with 5 entering the Makami River and 7 carrying crude oil catching fire and burning for several days. It is the second CN derailment in the area in the past month.[324]
7 March – United Kingdom – 2015 Wootton Bassett SPAD incident - A charter train overruns a signal at Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire and comes to a stop foul of a junction, where an express train has passed through a minute earlier. As a direct result of the incident, West Coast Railway Company were banned from accessing all rail lines in the United Kingdom until remedial preventions were put in place.[325]
10 March – Vietnam – Dien Sanh train crash - A passenger train collides with a vehicle on a level crossing in Hai Lang District and is derailed. The train driver is killed and four people are seriously injured.[327]
12 March – Netherlands – A fire occurs on a passenger train at Abcoude, Utrecht. All on board are evacuated.[328] Twenty-four people are taken to hospital.[329]
15 March – United States – A car ignores warning signals at an open grade crossing in Louisville, Kentucky. A Union Pacific freight train crashes into the car with 4 Bhutanese passengers in it where they were returning from soccer practice. 2 passengers sitting on the right side were killed in the crash while 2 were critically injured and taken to a nearby hospital. The accident was also caught on camera by two railfans.[330][331]
26 March – Thailand – 2015 Phachi collision - A passenger train runs into the rear of another in Phachi District. 52 people are injured in the collision,[333] three seriously.[334]
31 March – Australia – A freight train runs into the rear of another at Keswick, Adelaide, South Australia. At least one of the trains is derailed and two level crossings are blocked.[336]
10 April – Canada – A freight train derails north east of Calgary, Alberta.[337]
15 April – United Kingdom – A empty Southern Class 377 train unit no. 118 derails in Lovers Walk, Brighton causing damage to electrical cables that supply power. No passengers were in the train and the driver is not injured by the results. Buses replaced trains in the afternoon and the morning of 16/04/15. 73202 was attached to the rear/north end of 377118 at 16/04/15 and the line blockage was reopened after 377118 was re-railed on the track.[338]
27 April – United States – Several well cars of a Union Pacific train derail off a bridge near Bridge City, Louisiana during a severe storm. The event is caught on tape from a car's dashcam.[339]
28 April – South Africa – Denver train crash - Two passenger trains collide at Denver station, near Johannesburg. One person is killed and about 240 are injured.[340]
5 May – Austria – two passenger trains are in collision at Graz. The driver of one of the trains is killed. Eight passengers are injured.[341]
6 May – United States – A train derails near Heimdal, North Dakota, which ignites a crude oil fire in six tanker cars and forces the evacuation of approximately 40 nearby residents. No injuries or fatalities were reported.[342]
Philadelphia.
12 May – United States – 2015 Philadelphia train derailment - Amtrak passenger train Northeast Regional Train 188, en route from Washington, D.C. to New York City and carrying an estimated 238 passengers and five crew, derails and partially rolls over on its side in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the Port Richmond neighborhood. Out of the 243 passengers and crew on the train more than 200 are injured in the derailment,[343] with a confirmation of 8 deaths. With the current death toll of 8, as of Thursday, May 14, 2015, this is the U.S.'s deadliest train incident in almost six years.[344][345] The accident occurred at almost the same spot as another fatal accident.[346]
13 May – United States – A CSX freight train collides with a bus in East Point, Georgia that was trapped on a railroad crossing by traffic while stopped at a traffic light. Six people were injured in the wreck. The accident was caught on tape by cameras inside the bus.[347][348]
25 May – India – An express train derails between Athsarai and Sirathu stations, Uttar Pradesh. Two people are killed and over 100 are injured.[350]
30 May – United Kingdom – Two electric multiple units collide at Cambridge at low speed while coupling. Three people are injured.[351]
11 June – United States – Nine cars (and a locomotive) of an 84-car Kansas City Southern freight train derail in Houston, Texas. Two cars fall from the track, with one falling onto a road below. No injuries were reported and no cargo was spilled.[352]
16 June – Tunisia – 19 people are killed and 98 injured when a rush hour passenger train hits a lorry and derails at an unmarked crossing south of Tunis. Most of the dead were passengers on the train, which hit the lorry around 60 kilometres south of the capital, the transport ministry said.[353]
28 June – India – An electric multiple unit overruns the buffers at Churchgate, Mumbai. Five people are injured.[354]
30 June – United Kingdom – A freight train is derailed near Langworth, Lincolnshire.[355]
17 July – South Africa – Two passenger trains are in collision at Booysens, Johannesburg. Over 100 people are injured.[358]
22 July – Czech Republic – 2015 Studénka train crash - A train collides with a truck at Studénka. 3 people die and 13 others are injured.[359]
26 July – United Kingdom – A Southeastern Class 375 collides with a herd of cattle on the line at Godmersham, between Chilham, Kent and 375703's front coach is derailed. There are no injuries amongst the 70 passengers ad crew.[116][360]
1 August – United Kingdom – A ballast train runs into the rear of another ballast train near Cumnock, Ayrshire. Both trains are derailed.[361]
8 August – Russia – Passenger train number 233 in Mordovia derails. Four railcars of a passenger train en route from Yekaterinburg to Adler run off the rails in Mordovia. Five passengers are injured.[363]
16 August – Hungary – Two passenger trains collide head on at low speed when both the first train's driver and the station master of Galgamácsa forget to tell each other that the train crossing on the single-track railroad was moved to Nógrádkövesd from Acsa-Erdokürt and went forward from Nógrádkövesd despite the reserved track. The accident took place near Galgaguta. 26 injuries (0 fatal) occurred.
24 August – India – A Bangalore-Nanded Express train number 16594 is rammed by a granite-laden truck at a level crossing near Madakasira in Anantapur district, leading to the derailment of four coaches and killing six people.[364]
12 September – Germany – A passenger train collides with a car in Monzingen, killing the five occupants of the car.[365]
12 September – India – A passenger train derails on the Kalka-Shimla Railway killing two and injuring nine of the 37 passengers on board.[366]
16 September – Germany – A passenger train collides with a bus on a level crossing at Hedendorf. All those on board the bus, which had stalled, had been evacuated before the accident. One passenger on the train is injured.[367]
5 October – United States – An Amtrak passenger train strikes rocks on the line and derails near Northfield, Vermont.[368][369]
24 October – United States – A southbound Union Pacific freight train hauling 64 cars of gravel and concrete materials is swept off the tracks by flood waters just north of Corsicana, Texas, after Hurricane Patricia's weak remnants dumped 18 inches of rain on the area over a two-day period. Both crew members were rescued from the flood waters uninjured.[370]
1 December – Austria – A freight train on the Semmering railway line collides with a single locomotive that had been ordered to tow the train back into a station when it had to stop on the track because another train ahead had broken down. The engineer in the assistant locomotive is injured and several rail cars are derailed in the Polleroswand tunnel causing a complete shutdown of the Semmering line for two weeks. Investigations suggest that the freight train driver had released the brakes of his train too early which made the train roll back on the steep track crashing into the approaching support engine.[375]
27 December – Australia – A freight train carrying 819,000 litres of sulphuric acid derails about 20 kilometres (12 mi) east of Julia Creek, Queensland, leaking up to 31,500 litres of sulphuric acid.[376][377]
20 January – Italy – a head on crash between 2 light rail trains in Cagliari at a rate of 30 km/h-40 km/h results in the injuries of 70 passengers, mostly students from a nearby school.[381]
28 January – United States – A northbound Tri-Rail train derails in Pompano Beach, Florida. One person is injured.[382]
31 January – Egypt – Seven are killed and scores injured when a train crashes into a truck in Giza, just outside Cairo. Reports say the gatekeeper forgot about the coming passenger train until a truck pulled out in front of the crossing; the gatekeeper is now under investigation.[383]
05 February -India - 4 coaches of Kanyakumari-Bangalore City Express derail near Vellore. Few injured.[384]
9 February – Germany – Bad Aibling rail accident: Eleven people are killed in a head-on collision between two passenger trains near Bad Aibling;[385][386] investigators attributed it to the dispatcher giving the trains incorrect information while he was distracted by a game he was playing on his mobile phone.[387]
21 February – Switzerland – a steam railcar collides with wagons at Sihlbrugg. Sixteen of the 56 people on board are injured,the other 40 suffer from shock.[388]
25 March – United States – Callaway train crash; A collision between a train and a tractor-trailer transporting propane causes a large explosion and injures two train crew members.
30 March – Isle of Man – a Snaefell Mountain Railway tramcar runs away from Summit station. It derails before reaching Bungalow station and is totally destroyed. Nobody is on board at the time.[392]
8 April – Costa Rica – Two commuter trains collide head on near Pavas injuring more than 200.[396]
9 April – Sweden – An empty passenger train crashes though buffer stops at Karlstad whilst being shunted into a siding that was too short for it. Several staff on board are injured.[397]
10 April – United Kingdom – A passenger train collides with an agricultural tractor on a level crossing at Roudham, Norfolk. The tractor driver is seriously injured, six passengers sustain minor injuries.[398]
13 April – Japan – An out of service bullet train owned by the Kyushu Railway Co. derails near Kumamoto Station after a 6.5 magnitude earthquake had hit the nation. Nobody is injured in the derailment.[399]
19 April – Thailand – A garbage truck breaks through a grade crossing and hits passenger train No. 447 from Surat Thani to Sungai Kolok with six carriages in the Phunphin District, Surat Thani Province. The truck hits the 5th and 6th cars, severely damaging and them and derailing the train. The truck driver is killed and six persons are injured.[400]
22 April – South Korea – A passenger train derails near Yulchon station, Yeosu, probably due to excessive speed. One person is killed and eight are injured.[401]
1 May - India - Old Delhi-Faizabad Express derails near Hapur. No casualties were reported[402]
1 May – United States – A freight train derails in northeast Washington D.C., spilling hazardous chemicals. Nobody is injured, but metropolitan and Amtrak service to and from Washington is disrupted.[403]
8 May – Nigeria – A runaway train derails in Jebba, resulting in four casualties.[405]
19 May – India – Kanyakumari-Dibrugrah Vivek Express derails near Nagercoil. No casualties were reported[406]
20 May – Kazakhstan – A collision between two freight trains near the Sino-Kazakh border derails 18 cars and damages 150 metres (490 ft) of track, leaving several other trains stranded in the Alataw Pass.[407]
20 May – Switzerland – A high-speed train collides with a tour bus at Interlaken leaving 16 people injured.[408]
3 June – United States – A crude oil train derails due to defective track and catches fire at Mosier, Oregon. The town was evacuated.[409]
6 June – Belgium – Hermalle-sous-Huy train collision: A passenger train runs into the rear of a freight train at Hermalle-sous-Huy. Three people are killed, about 40 are injured, nine seriously.
23 June – South Africa – 130 people are injured in a head on crash between 2 trains near the city of Durban.[410]
26 June – United States – An Amtrak passenger train collides with a van on a grade crossing in southern Colorado. Five of the six persons in the van die.[411]
28 June – United States – Two BNSF Railway freight trains collide head-on near Panhandle, Texas. Two crewmen were killed, one was injured and one other remains missing. The wrecked locomotives caught fire following initial impact.[412]
13 July – Australia – A V/Line passenger train derails in a collision with a lorry at an unprotected level crossing near Colac, Victoria. Nineteen people on board are injured, the lorry driver seriously.[414] The crossing had been slated for an upgrade before the accident.[415]
14 July - United States - Early in the morning, Norfolk Southern train 164 strikes a tractor-trailer in Chattanooga, Tennessee, resulting in the train derailing and the lead locomotive overturning.[416]
22 July - Iran - At least 30 people were injured after a train collides with a truck at a railway crossing in Mazandaran.[417]
13 August - Finland - Two cargo trains collide, causing a derailment of a locomotive and three cargo wagons in Oulu. The rail yard and train equipment suffered substantial damages. A driver of the colliding locomotive was brought to hospital with minor injuries.[418][419][420]
17 August – France – At least twelve people are injured, two seriously, when a passenger train collides with a fallen tree obstructing the railway line at Saint-Aunès, Hérault.[421]
9 September – Spain – 2016 O Porriño derailment: A passenger train derails at O Porriño, Spain. Four people are killed and 49 are injured.
10 September – United Kingdom – A Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway passenger train collides with a tractor on an occupation crossing at Dymchurch. The locomotive is derailed. The train driver and four passengers sustained minor injuries.[423]
20 September – Canada – A 3-car C-Train owned by the Calgary Transit derails and runs into a pole, injuring the driver.[428]
24 September – Algeria – Two trains crash into each other killing 1 and injuring 60.[429]
29 September – United States – 2016 Hoboken train crash; A NJ Transit train entering Hoboken Terminal overruns the end-of-track bumper block and smashes into a wall, causing structural damage to the terminal building. A woman on the platform is killed by falling debris, and 114 others are injured.[430]
8 October – United States – A Long Island Railroad train derails near New Hyde Park. Thirty-three people are injured—26 passengers and 7 employees, four seriously, when an LIRR commuter train struck a work train that was partially fouling the track near a switch.[431][432]
21 October - Cameroon - 2016 Eséka train derailment - A packed train derails near Eséka on the Camrail line between the capital Yaoundé and the country's largest city Douala. By 30 October 2016, the official number of casualties had reached 79 dead, with 551 injured.[433]
3 November - Pakistan - Karachi rail crash - Two passenger trains collide near Karachi's Landhi Railway Station, killing at least 21 and injuring more than 60 others. [435]
9 November - United Kingdom - 2016 Croydon tram derailment - A Tramlink two car tram, No. 2551, derails and overturns while approaching the Sandilands tram stop in the London Borough of Croydon, killing seven and injuring 58, first passenger fatalities in a UK tram accident since 1959.
19 November – Netherlands – A passenger train is derailed when it is in collision with a milk lorry on a level crossing at Winsum, Groningen. Eighteen people were injured, three seriously.[436]
25 November – Iran – Semnan–Damghan train collision – Four coaches derail (two of which caught fire) after a passenger train crashes into a second passenger train that had broke down at Haf-Khan, Semnan Province, killing 47 and injuring 103.
29 November - Romania - A collision between 2 train left 1 dead and 1 injured in critical condition. The accident occurred in Gorj County, Romania.[439]
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