Similar Accidents
- 24 December 1953 - Tangiwai disaster - Tangiwai, North Island, New Zealand: the Tangiwai railway bridge over the Whangaehu River collapses as the overnight express train between Wellington and Auckland passes over it; the bridge supports had been weakened by a lahar (a volcanic ash and debris filled flash flood) a few minutes before the train passed. 151 people are killed. A passerby is not able to warn the train in time. The rebuilt bridge is equipped with high water warning devices.
- 1880 - Murrurundi - night mail train derailed at washaway - 10 killed.
- 25 January 1885 - Salt Creek near Cootamundra - night mail train derailed at washaway - 7 killed.
- 7 August 1904 – Eden, Colorado, United States: Train caught in bridge washout; 97 known dead; 14 missing.
- 27 September 1923 – near Glenrock, Wyoming - a bridge over Coal Creek was washed away and a passenger train derailed, killing 30 of the train's 66 passengers.
- 8 September 1945 – Llangollen, Denbighshire, Wales: An early morning mail train crashes after the adjacent canal flooded and washed away the track at Sun Bank, killing the driver and causing a fire.
- 1993 - 114 perished in a passenger train which plunged into a river after floods washed away a bridge at Ngai Ndethya.
Read more about this topic: Valigonda Train Disaster
Famous quotes containing the words similar and/or accidents:
“... a nation to be strong, must be united; to be united, must be equal in condition; to be equal in condition, must be similar in habits and feeling; to be similar in habits and feeling, must be raised in national institutions as the children of a common family, and citizens of a common country.”
—Frances Wright (1795–1852)
“I can forgive even that wrong of wrongs,
Those undreamt accidents that have made me
Seeing that Fame has perished this long while,
Being but a part of ancient ceremony
Notorious, till all my priceless things
Are but a post the passing dogs defile.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)