Accidents With Brakes
- Congo-Kinshasa west of Kananga (2007) - 100 killed.
- Igandu train disaster, Tanzania (2002) – runaway backwards - 281 killed.
- Tenga rail disaster, Mozambique (2002) – runaway backwards - 192 killed.
- Gare de Lyon train accident, France (1988) – valve closed by mistake leading to runaway.
- Chapel-en-le-Frith, Great Britain (1957) – broken steam pipe made it impossible for crew to apply brakes.
- Federal Express, Union station, Washington, DC, (1953) - valve closed by badly designed bufferplate.
- Armagh rail disaster, Northern Ireland (1889) – runaway backwards led to change in law.
- Shipton-on-Cherwell train crash, Oxford (1874) - caused by fracture of a carriage wheel.
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