The locomotive and 3 cars fall down an embankment and 12 people are killed. Septem– India – On the Pathankot-to- Amritsar line of the Eastern Punjab Railway, the Kashmir Mail train to Delhi is derailed near Gurdaspur due to an "error of judgment" by railway staff.Poor visibility and a lack of formal dispatching practices were to blame. Septem– United States – Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Two Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company trains chartered by the National Model Railroad Association collided head on killing 10 and injuring 47.Five people are killed in the first major accident for British Railways. Aug– United Kingdom – An express passenger train collides with a light engine at Penmaenmawr, Caernarfonshire due to a signalman's error.J– East Germany – A workers' train collides with a stationary freight between Zwickau and Aue, killing 20 people and injuring at least 50.J– United Kingdom – A fire on a train at Beattock, Dumfriesshire kills five people.J– United Kingdom – The Flying Scotsman train derails at Tollerton, Nottinghamshire due to heat-buckled track.The locomotive and several cars fall into the river 90 people swim to safety, but 110 are killed and over 300 injured. Ap– Brazil – At Tanguá on the Leopoldina Railway, flooding of the Rio Tanguá in heavy rain causes a bridge to collapse under a train going from Rio de Janeiro to Victória, now Vitória.The passenger fireman and goods guard were killed. Ma– United Kingdom – An overnight express passenger train overruns danger signals in fog and collides with the rear of a mineral train 2 + 3⁄ 4 miles (4.4 km) south west of Kelvedon, Essex and 3⁄ 4 mile (1.2 km) northeast of Witham Junction.Febru– United States – A Lehigh Valley Railroad freight train is derailed at Mehoopany, Pennsylvania, destroying the railway station there.Both engineers survived but 31 people were killed, and more than 100 people injured. The engineer of train number 192 ignored an Approach and the following Stop signals and collided with train number 175 on temporary gantleted (overlapping) track which had been installed to facilitate a grade separation project. Febru– United States – Rockville Centre train crash, Rockville Centre, New York: Two passenger trains collide head-on at Rockville Centre station.Janu– India – At Sirhind, a goods train and a mail train collide, killing 63 people, about half of them Indian soldiers.
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