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themauveroom:

The imperial train wreck at Borki: 1888.

nhrail:

Wreck of the Boston and Maine Red Wing passenger train. Nashua, NH November 13, 1954. One killed, 53 injured. 

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1988: Faulty wiring in a signal fails, and a passenger train hits the back of another stopped passenger train at Clapham Junction, in Battersea, London.  Before rescue can commence, a third, empty train from the opposite direction hits the wreckage.  Nearly 500 people are injured, and 35 are killed.  The accident leads to changes in the way both signal work and employee hours (the technician who rewired the signal had worked 7 days straight) are handled.

Train vs. Fiat - Rossano, Italy - 11/24/2012 - 6 fatalities (all occupants of the car.)

Train derailment - northern Burma - 11/09/2012 - ~25 fatalities. 

The train was carrying gasoline and diesel fuel and burst into flames.

This Day In Wrecks

A train stopped at the station in Nacozari, Sonora, Mexico catches fire in a car filled with dynamite.  The engineer, Jesús García, notices the fire and drives the train at full-steam away from the town in an effort to save the inhabitants.  Although García and 12 others on the train are killed in the eventual explosion, the town was saved, and García remains a hero in Mexico to this day. (statue of García, Heroe Civil, pictured)

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1943: The Congressional Limited, a Pennsylvania Railroad train, derails at Frankford Junction in PA.  79 passengers are killed.  (pictured)

1962: The first of the Blackfriars ships, dated to 2nd century CE Roman Britain, is discovered in the River Thames by archaeologist Peter Marsden.  Several other ships from a much later date are subsequently found at the site.

2009:  SuperFerry9 capsizes and sinks off the Zamboanga Peninsula in the Phillipines while carrying 971 people.  There are 10 fatalities on the ro-ro ferry.

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1812:  On patrol in Lake Ontario, the schooners USS Hamilton and Scourge are lost in a squall.  Only 16 men are saved.

2008:  The EC 108 Comenius train from Krakow to Prague hits part of a contruction beam and derails.  Nearly 400 people are riding that day; 8 are killed. (pictured)

2011:  IrAero Flight 103 overshoots the runway on landing at Ignatyevo Airport in Blagoveshchensk, Russia.  The An-24 is destroyed but there are no fatalities.

Passenger train vs. minibus - Bratoszewice, Poland - 7/30/2012 - 9 fatalities (on minibus.)

This Weekend In Wrecks

June 29

1776:  The British Navy chases down the American brig Nancy, until she runs aground in Turtle Gut Inlet near Cape May, New Jersey.  The retreating Revolutionaries leave some of their gunpowder kegs in the hold, rig a fuse from powder and the main sail, and lower their flag.  The British, believing the ship has surrendered, board the Nancy and are blown up.

1864:  A passenger train plunges off an open swing bridge into the Richelieu River in St. Hilaire, Quebec, killing 99 of the 475 people on board.

June 30

1956:  TWA Flight 2 and United Flight 718 collide over the Grand Canyon and crash.  Everyone on the Super Constellation and DC-7 is killed in the deadliest air crash incident to date.

1971:  The Soyuz 11 mission ends in disaster when a seal fails during re-entry.  The capsule returns as expected, but when the craft is opened, all three crew members are found dead.

July 1

1965:  Continental Airlines Flight 12 hydroplanes off the runway at Kansas City Downtown Airport and hits a mound.  The 707 breaks into 3 pieces, but everyone survives.

2002:  A Tu-154 and a 757 cargo jet collide over Germany in what comes to be known as the Uberlingen disaster.  Everyone on Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 is killed as the plane breaks up; DHL Flight 611 continues on for 4 miles without most of the vertical stabilizer, but crashes with the loss of both crew.  Two years later a man named Vitaly Kaloyev, who lost his family in the accident, murders Peter Nielsen, the ATC on duty at the time, although he had not been determined to be responsible.

steroge:

Ticket to ride…

legrandcirque:

Mark Kauffman, Wreckage of runaway train after crashing into Union Station, Washington, DC, USA, 1953.