Train wreck
Versailles rail accident in 1842, 55 people were killed including the French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville.
Wheels from Engine Tender #013 which was destroyed in a wreck in 1907 on a bridge over Village Creek between Silsbee and Beaumont, Texas. The wheels are on display in the Arizona Railway Museum.
A train wreck, train collision, train accident or train crash is a type of disaster involving one or more trains. Train wrecks often occur as a result of miscommunication, as when a moving train meets another train on the same track; or an accident, such as when a train wheel jumps off a track in a derailment; or when a boiler explosion occurs. Train wrecks have often been widely covered in popular media and in folklore.
A head-on collision between two trains is colloquially called a "cornfield meet" in the United States.[1]
Train wreck gallery[]
Train wreck in Rainy River District, Ontario in the 1900s.
See also[]
- List of accidents and disasters by death toll
- The crash at Crush, Texas, an intentional train wreck conducted as a publicity stunt
- Head-on collision
- Railway accident deaths
References[]
- ^ "Definition of CORNFIELD MEET". www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 2021-07-19.
Further reading[]
- Aldrich, Mark. Death Rode the Rails: American Railroad Accidents and Safety, 1828-1965 (2006) excerpt
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- BBC News: World's worst rail disasters
- A signalman (1874). . London: Longmans, Green, & Co.
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Categories:
- Railway accidents and incidents