Similar Accidents
- Round Oak rail accident - 1 in 75 ; 23 August 1858 – Excursion runaway; brake not applied
- Abergele rail disaster – 26 August 1868 – Brake broken by rough shunting
- Stairfoot rail accident - 12 September 1870 - Poorly secured wagons runaway due to rough shunting. (see also BoT accident report)
- Murulla railway accident (26 killed) - 13 September 1926 - Air brake failure
- Bouhalouane train crash (131 Killed) - 27 January 1982 - Passenger carriage roll back after being disconnected from a locomotive on a steep slope.
- 13 die near Kisumu, Kenya, after a passenger train rolls back because of air brake failure - 15 August 2000
- Tenga rail disaster - 25 May 2002
- Igandu train disaster - 24 June 2002
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