Similar Accidents
- Armagh rail disaster (1889) - which resulted in compulsory continuous and automatic brakes and absolute block for passenger trains.
- Chapel-en-le-Frith (1957)
- Gare de Lyon train accident (1988)
- Tenga rail disaster (2002)
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