The world's top ten deadliest train accidents are released by the integration of wonders from all over the world! At the beginning of the 19th century, steam train was the most common form of long-distance transportation in the world. Until now, the train is still a very safe and reliable transportation method.
The first recorded train accident in New Jersey in 1833 almost killed former President John Quincy Adams. Compared with the world's top ten deadliest train accidents, the New Jersey accident is a relatively small one.
10. Eyat train accident, Egypt: 383 deaths
The passenger train on the route from Cairo to Luxor exploded and seven picture boxes caught fire. At that time, the bus was heavily overloaded. Many people died in the fire, some people jumped, but not everyone was so lucky, jumping out of the train is also quite dangerous, some people died like this. Although only 383 people have been reported dead, the actual death toll may be much higher.
9. Train accident in Ethiopia: 400 deaths
The worst train accident in African history occurred in January 1985, when the express passenger train derailed near the town of Ethiopia. It causes the train to derail too fast, causing part of the train's trunk to fall to the bottom of the river canyon. 400 of the 1000 passengers died and another 500 were seriously injured.
8. Torredel vierso train accident, Spain: 500 deaths
This is the biggest train disaster in Spanish history.
7. Balvano train accident, Italy: 520 deaths
In 1944, Italy also suffered the most serious train accident. An Italian steam engine using poor quality coal caused a disaster on the balwano train, killing 520 people. Carbon monoxide from coal slowly fills the heavily overloaded train. Fortunately, the train stopped inside the tunnel outside of barvano. Many passengers died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
On June 4, 1989, the explosion along the gubishev railway shocked the town of Yasha. The Soviet Union, UFA's train bombings, were the most serious in the history of Russia and the Soviet Union. When two passenger trains meet along the railway line, they ignite a huge gas leak in a nearby pipeline, resulting in an explosion. 575-625 people were killed, nearly 1000 injured and 37 destroyed.
5. Guadalajara train accident: 600 deaths
A Mexican train crashes into a valley in Guadalajara on April 3, 1955.
4. Chuleia train accident, Romania: 600 + dead
In northeastern Romania, during World War I, a train carrying wounded and refugees went to churaya station to treat the wounded. Due to large-scale fracture failure, the train becomes a runaway bullet, speeding up the high speed in derailment. Only two locomotives were carried on the track; the rest flew out. Because the trains are so crowded, officials estimate that more than 600 people have been killed, while some estimate as many as 1000 have been killed in the disaster.
3. St. Michel de Moliere, Moliere Valley, France: 700 dead
On December 12, 1917, a French military vehicle derailed near Mount Seine tunnel. About 700 people were killed.
2. Train accident in Bihar, India: 800 dead
On June 6, 1981, when an Indian passenger train arrived in Bihar state, a bridge was damaged by floods and cyclones. When the train passed the bridge, the bridge collapsed because of the sudden flood. The train immediately fell into the water. About 800 people died. It is estimated that there may have been as many as 1000 passengers. Most of them were drowned by the river.
1. In 2004, about 1700-2000 people died in Sri Lanka's "Queen of the sea" train accident.
On December 26, 2004, Sri Lanka's "Queen of the sea" train was hit by a huge tsunami caused by the Indian Ocean earthquake when it was travelling to the Sri Lanka Coastal Railway (telwatta) in tarwata. Almost all the people on the train were drowned in the tsunami. It is estimated that more than 1700 people were killed, some even estimated that the death toll was about 2000, and only 100 people were rescued. This is the biggest train accident of the century.