List of rail accidents (1900–1909)

This is a list of rail accidents from 1900 to 1909.

1900

February 20, 1900, Dublin.

1901

  • April 12, 1901 – United States – A Head End collision of a work train and a through freight train occurred near Pineville, Kentucky killing two.[9][10]
  • May 26, 1901 - United States - “Electric cars racing for a switch while running in opposite directions, at the rate of forty miles an hour (64 km/h), cost five lives (May 26, 1901) in the afternoon by a terrific collision, in which over forty prominent people were injured, some fatally and others seriously. The lobby of the local post office filled with dead and wounded, hysterical women and children looking for relatives and friends, surgeons administering temporary relief and ambulances racing through the city, taking the wounded to hospitals, were the early intimation of the accident. The scene of the accident was at a point about two miles (3.2 km) out of Greenbush, on the line of the Albany & Hudson railway. The point where the cars met on the single track was at a sharp curve, and so fast were both running and so sudden was the collision that the motormen never had time to put on the brakes before southbound car No. 22 had gone almost clean through the northbound car No. 17, and hung on the edge of a high bluff, with its load of shrieking, maimed humanity. One motorman was pinioned up against the smashed front of the southbound car, with both legs severed, and was killed instantly, while the other one lived but a few minutes.

Fully 120 men, women and children formed a struggling, shrieking pyramid framed with blood, detached portions of human bodies and the wreckage of cars. Some of the more slightly injured of the men extricated themselves and began to pull people out of the rear ends of the two cars. Almost every one was taken out in this way, and nearly all were badly injured. With both motormen killed it was hard to get at the real cause of the accident, but it was pretty well determined that it was caused by an attempt of the south bound car to reach a second switch instead of waiting for the north bound car at the first siding.

The cars weigh fifteen tons each and are the largest electric cars built, and so frightful was the crash that both cars were torn almost to splinters. Both cars were filled with Sunday pleasure seekers returning from the new recreation grounds that the railway had just opened."from the BROOKLYN EAGLE May 27, 1901.

Sixteen months later tragedy struck again, and a young woman and a small boy were killed in a collision at Rossman's Station. Marjorie Hoysradt, 20, and Edward Doyle, 5, were among the "thousands of people" who had taken the railway's cars to enjoy a summer outing at Electric Park. According to the New York Times of August 2, 1902, cars were running at high speed to accommodate the crowds when the accident occurred.

  • June 8, 1901 – United States – A double-header freight train collided with a stopped freight train carrying 12 tons of dynamite on the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad in Vestal, New York killing five and injuring seven.[11][12]
  • October 29, 1901 – United StatesLinwood, North Carolina. The second of two northbound special trains carrying part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show towards Danville collided head-on with a southbound Southern Railway freight train carrying a load of fertilizer. The engineer of the southbound train had been ordered to yield to the northbound traffic, but did not understand that there were two trains, setting up the head-on collision with the second train. The resulting crash severely injured Annie Oakley and killed many famous show animals, domestic and exotic, including 110 horses total.[13]
  • November 27, 1901 – United StatesAdrian, Michigan. Two trains of the Wabash Railroad collided one mile east of Seneca, Michigan. The westbound train was carrying Italian immigrants going west from New York. Estimates of casualties ranged from twelve[14] to 23[15] to 50-80[16] to 100 dead[17] with at least 50[18] to 125 injured.[19] The unknown dead were buried in Adrian's Oakwood Cemetery; the gravesite was marked September 25, 2016.[20]
  • December 6, 1901 – GermanyFrankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof. The luxury train Ostend-Vienna-Express, about 90 minutes late, reached the Frankfurt Terminus at about 5 a.m. The air brake failed due to a faulty valve which remained closed.[21] The locomotive overran the buffer stop, shot across the head of the platform and crashed through the opposite wall behind which the restaurant for 1st and 2nd class passengers was situated. There it came to a stop in midst of the tables covered with white table cloths and set for breakfast. The photograph of this scene became a favorite in most publications on the history of the Frankfurt Central Station. Nobody was hurt in the accident. In this early morning hour not many people were around, and the carriages of the Ostend-Vienna-Express had separated from the locomotive and remained on the rails. After a short time they were on their way to Vienna again. Some of the sleeping passengers hadn't even noticed the incident.[22] The Ostend-Vienna-Express carried through-coaches between Ostend and the Orient Express.
  • December 22, 1901 – United Kingdom – Liverpool, Dingle railway station. The line of the Liverpool Overhead Railway (LOR) to Dingle railway station was worked by electrically powered trains. Access to this underground station was through a tunnel about half a mile long. On December 22, 1901 an engine of a train caught fire and the train stopped about 80 yards before reaching the station. Soon all the train was on fire as well as the station. Six people died. This was the first major accident caused by an electrically powered train.[23]

1902

  • January 8, 1902 – United StatesNew York City, New York: A stopped New Haven express train from South Norwalk was rear-ended in the Park Avenue tunnel by a New York Central White Plains local, due to smoke and snow obscuring signals. Seventeen persons were killed and 36 injured, the worst rail accident in New York City history. The accident inspired the State Legislature to pass a law the next year prohibiting steam operation within the tunnels of New York City on the Park Avenue line south of the Harlem River.[24]
  • March 30, 1902 – South African Republic – Between Barberton and Kaapmuiden, a passenger train ran away descending a gradient toward a sharp curve and a bridge over a gully where it derailed and one car fell into the gully killing at least 44 passengers.[25]
  • August 2, 1902 - United States - Albany Southern Railway - A young woman and a small boy were killed in a collision at Rossman's Station (near Albany, NY). Marjorie Hoysradt, 20, and Edward Doyle, 5, were among the "thousands of people" who had taken the railway's cars to enjoy a summer outing at Electric Park (on Kinderhook Lake in Niverville, NY). According to the New York Times of August 2, 1902, cars were running at high speed to accommodate the crowds when the accident occurred.
  • August 5, 1902 - United States - A Norfolk and Western Railway coal train fell though a trestle under repair near Peebles, Ohio. 1 killed and 4 injured.[26]
  • August 16, 1902 – Canada – A Canadian Pacific Railway westbound freight train ran into the tail end of a stopped freight train. This incident occurred about 200 yards (180 m) east of the station depot at Maple Creek, Saskatchewan. The train crew members involved were unhurt but the body of a suspected hobo was found as the wreckage was cleared.[27]
  • September 1, 1902 – United States – A Southern Railway train derailed at Berry, Alabama, killing 21 people.[25]
  • September 11, 1902 – British India – A mail train plunged into a river at Mangapatnam due to a bridge washout. At least 100 people were killed.[28][29]
  • September 1, 1902 – France – A signalman's error diverted a Chemins de Fer du Nord express to Cambrai into a siding at Arleux. Most of the train cars derailed; 20 people were killed and 41 injured.[25]
  • December 6, 1902 – CanadaNova Scotia, Six persons were killed in a wreck on the Intercolonial Railway, the Canadian Government railway, at noon near the station at Belmont, seventy miles (113 km) from Halifax. An express train for Montreal rolled down an embankment, completely wrecking the locomotive, the postal, express, and baggage cars and several passenger cars.[30]
  • December 20, 1902 – United StatesByron, California. The south-bound Stockton Flyer crashed into the rear of the disabled Los Angeles Owl, killing 20 and injuring 25. Both trains had departed from Oakland. Prominent California lawyer Frank Hamilton Short and journalist Chester Harvey Rowell were passengers on board the Owl. Neither was injured.[31]
  • December 26, 1902 – CanadaWanstead, Ontario. On the Grand Trunk Railway near Sarnia, a westbound passenger express collided head-on with a freight train. Around thirty people were killed.[32]

1903

  • January 27, 1903 – United States – The engineer of the Central Railroad of New Jersey Reading Express was distracted by engine trouble and failed to see signals. At Graceland, Scotch Plains, New Jersey, the train crashed into the rear of another passenger train that was slowed by a hot box killing 23.[33]
  • January 28, 1903 – United StatesEsmond Train Wreck – 14 people, including the engineers of both trains were killed when the Benson, Arizona bound Crescent City Express (No. 8) collided head-on at 3:30 am with the Tucson, Arizona bound Pacific Coast Express (No. 7) due to a communication error. A night operator did not deliver a second order to the conductor, which would have superseded the previous order for the Crescent City Express (No.8) to proceed to Vail Station. Had the second order been delivered, it would have allowed the Pacific Coast Express (No.7) to pass unscathed.[34][35][36]
  • March 18, 1903 – Canada – Two Canadian Pacific Railway freight trains collided head-on near Etobicoke (Islington), Ontario.[37]
  • June 27, 1903 – Spain – A train on the line between Bilbao and Zaragoza derailed at San Asensio and fell into a river, killing 90 to 100 people.[33]
  • July 7, 1903 – United States – Due to a misread train order, a passenger and a freight train on the Southern Railway collided at Rockfish, Virginia, killing 19 passengers and four crew members.[33]
  • July 15, 1903 – United Kingdom – A passenger train derailed at Waterloo, on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, due to excessive speed killing seven and injuring thirty.[38]
  • July 27, 1903 – United KingdomGlasgow St Enoch rail accident, Scotland: A train crashed into the buffers killing 16.
  • August 1, 1903 – United Kingdom – A passenger train was run into by another train at Preston, Lancashire.[39]
  • August 7, 1903 – United States – Two special trains carrying the Benjamin Wallace Circus collided at Durand, Michigan, killing twenty-two people, two camels, and an elephant. The second train's driver failed to notice a warning flare when the first train stopped, and his brakes were not properly charged.[33]
  • August 10, 1903 – FranceParis Métro train fire, France: electrical fire on the Paris Métro near Couronnes station killed 84. This led to the adoption of multiple-unit train control (with a low-voltage control circuit) and a second, independent power supply for station lighting.
The aftermath of the Wreck of the Old 97. (September 27, 1903)
The first coach of the Big Four special, where the Purdue football team was seated, lies crushed between the second coach and a coal tender. (October 31, 1903)
  • October 23, 1903 – United States – Hebron, Indiana. A head-on collision; one of the worst wrecks in the history of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
  • October 31, 1903 – United States – The Purdue Wreck, Indianapolis, Indiana: A Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis Railroad football special carrying the Purdue University football team and fans to the annual Indiana University / Purdue University football game collided with a coal train killing seventeen passengers in the first coach, including fourteen members of the football team.
  • November 11, 1903 - Canada - a Canadian Pacific Railway freight train collided head-on with another freight train at Indian Head, Saskatchewan damaging both trains. The engineer was charged with "driving an engine while in a state of intoxication" and referred to the Supreme Court of Canada.[41]
  • November 14, 1903 – United States – The crew of a broken-down train at Kentwood, Louisiana failed to protect it and the following train ran into it, killing 32 people are injuring many more.[42]
  • December 2, 1903 – United States - Two trains collided in the town of Greenwood, Delaware during a blinding snowstorm, one loaded with cars of dynamite and naphtha, a petroleum liquid used to make lighter fluid. The result was a violent explosion that rained fire down upon the town, killing two people and injuring dozens, while leveling every building in the area of the wreck and setting several fires including nine houses, the schoolhouse, a hotel, and numerous freight cars. Reports were that every pane of glass in every building in the town broke. The explosion was felt across Sussex, Kent, and Caroline counties, but help was not quick to arrive as there was no local Fire Company and all phone and telegraph lines in the town had been severed by the explosion. Eventually crews from Seaford Volunteer Fire Department and Harrington Fire Company arrived the next day to find the explosion had cut a hole big enough to bury the freight engine, homes literally turned on their sides from the blast, and much of the town destroyed, burned, or damaged. Over a week later, the Washington Post reported that it was not dynamite, but a secret military explosive that was loaded on the train and had caused the explosion, as investigators found the damage to be far too great for the reported contents of the train. The freight car in question had been loaded by the government and was en route to a facility in Newport News, Virginia containing, "a quantity of new explosive, a terrible instrument of death"
  • December 23, 1903 – United StatesConnellsville train wreck near Connellsville, Pennsylvania killed 66 people as the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Dequesne Limited ran into timber dropped from a freight train.
  • December 23, 1903 – United Kingdom – A Hull and Barnsley Railway passenger train collided with wagons on the line at Locomotive Junction, Springhead, Northumberland.[43]

1904

1905

New York, New Haven and Hartford Locomotive No. 321 crash July 8, 1905
  • July 8, 1905 - United States- New York, New Haven and Hartford Locomotive No. 321 crashed through roundhouse, Hartford CT.
  • July 27, 1905 – United KingdomHall Road rail accident, Liverpool, Lancashire to Southport line killed 21.
  • August 7, 1905 – Germany – between Spremberg and Schleife on (Berlin-Görlitz railway), a head-on crash, caused by an error by a dispatcher, killed 19 and seriously injured 40.[58]
  • August 17, 1905 – United States – An Atlantic Coast Line excursion train carrying six cars of black passengers from Kinston, North Carolina, to Norfolk, Virginia, ran through an open drawbridge near Bruce Station, 6 mi (10 km) from Norfolk. The locomotive and first car were submerged in 12 ft (3.7 m) of water, and two more cars left the track; at least three people were killed, and a total of 20 to 30 killed or injured, including the bridge tender.[59]
  • September 1, 1905 – United KingdomWitham rail crash, Essex killed 11 and injured 71.
Beginning cleanup after the Ninth Avenue derailment; picture from the German Elektrotechnische Zeitschrift of November 2, 1905

1906

  • March 16, 1906 – United States – Two passenger trains collided head-on near Adobe Station, between Portland and Florence, Colorado, on the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, due to a train dispatcher's error; thirty-four people were killed.[62]
  • April 6, 1906 – United Kingdom – A passenger train derailed and fouled the adjacent line at Kirtlebridge, Dumfriesshire. The wreckage was hit by another passenger train killing one and injuring several others.[63]
  • June 26, 1906 – United StatesCarson Hill, California: A four car freight train on the Sierra Railway's Angel's Branch carrying 15 Tons of dynamite exploded. The blast of the explosion was reportedly heard in Stockton, California, 80 miles (130 km) to the east and a wheel from the boxcar carrying the dynamite was found embedded in the roof of a shed 5 miles (8.0 km) away; two crewmen were killed.[64]
Salisbury train crash 1906
  • June 30, 1906 – United KingdomSalisbury rail crash, Salisbury, England: A speeding express train derailed and collided with a milk train on a sharp curve killing 28 (24 passengers, 4 crew).
  • August 13, 1906 – United StatesElizabeth, New Jersey: Four boys were killed on the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks by an Eastbound Express. The accident occurred where three levels of tracks crossed over Broad Street.[65]
  • September 8, 1906 – United StatesWoodlands, West Virginia Two Trains collusion on bridge; 2 killed and 5 injured[66][67]
  • September 18, 1906 – United StatesDover, Oklahoma Territory: A bridge across the Cimarron River collapsed beneath a Rock Island train bound for Fort Worth, Texas from Chicago. The bridge was a temporary structure unable to withstand the pressure of debris and high water. Replacement with a permanent structure had been delayed by the railroad for financial reasons. Estimates of the number of fatalities range from 4 to over 100.[68][69][70][71][72]
September 19, 1906 Grantham rail accident
  • September 19, 1906 – United KingdomGrantham rail accident, Grantham, England: An evening sleeping-car and mail train from London to Edinburgh that should have stopped at Grantham, England, failed to do so; no definite reason was ever establishe. The points beyond the station had not yet been set, and the train ran onto a sharp curve and derailed, killing 14 people.
October 28, 1906 Atlantic City train crash

1907

  • January 2, 1907 - United States - Livingston, Montana, at Coal Spur, at 2:30 a.m., Northern Pacific Railway Co Engineer James Caruso and Conductor John Storrs were instantly killed in a two-train collision. (Livingston Enterprise newspaper, Page 1, 1/2/1907)
  • January 2, 1907 – United States – At Volland, Kansas, a Rock Island Railroad operator, who obtained his position assisting the dispatcher by falsifying his age and experience, failed to ensure that the westbound California Fast Mail, which was waiting for an eastbound train, received an order to wait for a second one. It departed and collided with the second train. Thirty passengers on the Mail were killed, as well as a tramp riding the roof of the eastbound train.[75][76]
  • January 16, 1907 – United Kingdom – Thingley Junction, Chippenham. A head-on collision between two Great Western Railway locomotives, River class 2–4–0 No. 70 "Dart" and Dean Goods No 2448 badly damaged both engines; both were unsalvageable and cut up on site.[77]
  • February 16, 1907 – United States – A train on the newly electrified New York Central Railroad Harlem Division jumped the tracks at Woodlawn Station, resulting in 20 deaths and 150 injuries.[78]
Aftermath of Felling derailment. (March 26, 1907)
  • March 26, 1907 – United Kingdom – A passenger train derailed on buckled track at Felling, County Durham. The signalman had been warned of the buckle by a member of the public but refused to be told to stop trains over the affected lines. Two people were killed and six seriously injured.[79]
  • March 28, 1907 – United States – The Southern Pacific Railroad train, the Sunset, running nine to ten hours late, coming downgrade from San Timoteo Canyon at 60 miles per hour (97 km/h) hits a "misplaced switch" at Colton, California, and smashes into a ditch at the east end of the yard. Nine of 14 cars are demolished, killing 24 passengers and two crew. This will remain Southern California's worst rail accident in terms of deaths until the Santa Fe Redondo Junction train wreck in January 1956.[80][81]
  • April 14, 1907 – United StatesBlossvale crash of 1907Annsville, New York. A two steam engine sixty car freight train derailed killing one fireman.[82]
  • May 11, 1907 – United States – A Southern Pacific Railroad special excursion train carrying Shriners from Buffalo, New York derailed approximately 65 miles (105 km) north of Santa Barbara, California between Point Concepcion the mouth of the Santa Ynez River killing 32 people and injuring many others.[83][84]
  • May 11, 1907 - United States - A Santa Fe Railroad passenger train derailed one mile west of Joseph City, Arizona due to failure of a baggage car truck that was not sufficiently sized for the speed of the train. Several people were injured.[85]
  • May 21, 1907 - United States - New York Central Railroad passenger train collided with a derailed Buffalo and Cleveland special freight train, just outside of Little Falls, NY. One man died, two were critically injured (one which later died) and three additional people were injured.[86][87][88][89]
  • July 20, 1907 – United States – A freight train and passenger train on the Pere Marquette Railway collided head-on near Salem, Michigan, due to the freight train crew misinterpreting the intent of a badly written train order. Thirty people were killed.[90][81]
  • August 4, 1907 – France – A bridge at Les Ponts-de-Cé collapsed under a Chemins de fer de l'État train running from Angers to Poitiers. The locomotive, tender, and two cars fell into the Loire; 27 people were killed and 15 injured.[81]
  • August 28, 1907 – United Kingdom – A North Eastern Railway freight train overran signals and derailed at Goswick, Northumberland killing two and seriously injuring one.[91]
  • September 3, 1907 – Canada – Horseshoe Curve Wreck on the Canadian Pacific Railway – Between Cardwell and Caledon, Ontario. Seven people were killed and 114 injured (out of about 600) in the wreck, which was caused by high speed.
  • September 15, 1907 – United States – On the Boston and Maine Railroad, northbound freight train 267 received a train order referring to southbound passenger train 34 instead of train 30, the Quebec to Boston Express, which was 20 minutes ahead of it and was heavily loaded with passengers returning from the Sherbrooke Fair. Consequently, trains 267 and 30 collided at 4:26 a.m. on a foggy Sunday morning, 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Canaan station; 25 or 26 people were killed and about 40 injured.[90][92]
  • September 19, 1907 – MexicoEncarnación: an express passenger train for El Paso, Texas, collided with a freight train that should have waited for it; about 63 people were killed and 43 injured. Reportedly, the engineer of the freight fled home to the United States, was arrested, and admitted responsibility.[93]
  • September 28, 1907 – United KingdomNewport rail accident, Newport, Wales killed one person.
Shrewsbury train accident October 1907
  • October 15, 1907 – United KingdomShrewsbury rail accident, Shrewsbury, England: An evening sleeping-car and mail train from Manchester to the west of England derailed on a sharp curve, probably due to driver error, killing 18.
  • October 26, 1907 – United Kingdom – At West Hampstead station on the Metropolitan Railway in London, the signalman thought a train had left and overrode the interlocking so he could accept the following train. In fact, the first train was still standing at the platform, concealed by a thick fog. Both trains were electric multiple units and when they collided the leading car of the second train telescoped into the rear car of the first. Three people were killed and eleven seriously injured.[94]
  • November 25, 1907 – Spain – An express to Valencia derailed just before a bridge between Cambrils and Hospitalet, and most of the train fell into a river. Of about 70 to 90 people on board, at least 20 were killed and all but two of the rest were injured.[93]
  • December 25, 1907 – India – Two passenger trains collided killing 22 people due to a stationmaster's error with a train order. The source gives the location only as "North-Western State".[93]

1908

Railway Accident, Sunshine, Victoria, Apr 1908
  • April 20, 1908 – AustraliaSunshine train disaster, Melbourne: Rear-end collision, killed 44 and injured around 400.
  • April 25, 1908 – Mexico – A train carrying pilgrims from the shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe collided at Gargantua siding, near Maltrata killing 28.[93]
  • May 21, 1908 – Belgium – An express train was diverted into a bay platform occupied by a passenger train at Kontich due to a signalman's error. Forty people were killed and over 100 injured.[97]
  • May 1908 – India – A tablet system failure allowed two tablets to be issued for passenger trains on the same section. They collided head-on between Dasna and Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, and burned so intensely as to prevent an accurate count of the dead. About 120 were killed and over 50 injured.[98]
  • July 8 - 1908 - Canada - In Alberta around Medicine Hat, two locomotives had a head on collision with the drivers of the locomotives being Bob Twohey, and J. Nickelson, both of them before this train wreck had encountered a ghost locomotive, however, this information wouldn't be shared until fireman, Gus Day, Shared it to the public in 1966, at least 7 railroad men and some passengers were killed in the incident.
  • July 28, 1908 – Canada – The Pacific Express passenger train was operating in two sections. At Hemlo, Ontario on the Lake Superior Division of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the following section of the Pacific Express passenger train ran into the rear of the section ahead killing one passenger and injuring others.[99]
  • August 25, 1908 – United States – In Asheville, North Carolina a southern railway freight train was washed out between Saluda and Flat Rock. As a result, one was left dead and one seriously injured.[100]
  • August 25, 1908 – United StatesSeaboard Railway train number 74, Lumpkin, Georgia. Heavy rain caused the tracks to collapse causing the engine to roll over killing the engineer and fireman. The passenger cars remained intact preventing more deaths.
  • September 25, 1908 – United States – On the Northern Pacific Railroad, two trains collided head-on at Young's Point (near Billings, Montana), after one of the engineers failed to yield priority to the other killing 23.[101]
  • September 26, 1908 – GermanyGleisdreieck, Berlin: On the Hochbahn (an elevated portion of the Berlin U-Bahn), a train from Leipziger Platz (now Potsdamer Platz) station violated signals and collided with a train coming from Bülowstraße at the point where their tracks converged to go to Möckernbrücke. One car was knocked to the ground killing 21 and seriously injuring 18. Afterwards, the driver at fault was sentenced to prison and the routes were reconfigured to cross instead of converging.[101][102]
  • October 14, 1908 – United StatesMetz, Michigan: An evacuation train operated because of forest fires derailed at a trestle bridge weakened by the flames killing 35, mostly women and children.[103]
  • 1908 – India – Two passenger trains collided on a single-track section of the Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway, killing 79 people and injuring 119.[104]
  • 1908 – India – An express train ran past signals and collided with a freight on the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway killing 26.[104]

1909

  • January 14, 1909 – France – a train from Paris to Le Mans collided with another train. Orville and Katharine Wright were among the passengers.[105]
  • January 15, 1909 – United StatesDotsero, Colorado, near Glenwood Canyon: Two trains collided head-on on the single track due to a failure to obey train orders killing 20.[104]
  • January 22, 1909 – United Kingdom – two Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway locomotives were shunted into a siding at Hindley & Blackrod Junction, Lancashire, but one of them did not completely clear the main line. A passenger train collided with it, killing one person and injuring 33.[106]
  • February 2, 1909 – United States – Two trains on the Seaboard Railroad collided head-on on Long Cane trestle, approximately six miles (9.6 km) east of Abbeville, South Carolina, at about 10:30 pm, killing three crewmen. Reportedly, one of the engineers had his watch set wrongly by an hour.[107]
  • February 3, 1909 – United StatesPowersville, Missouri: Two livestock trains on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway collided head-on, killing four crewmen.[108]
  • February 4, 1909 – United States – Near University Heights in the Bronx, New York City, a group of laborers repairing tracks on the New York Central Railroad were struck by a construction train killing six injuring several others.[109]
  • February 24, 1909 – EcuadorRiobamba: A northbound train derailed due to a track defect and dropped 100 feet (30 m) down a cliff, killing 25 people and injuring 40.[104]
  • March 5, 1909 – United Kingdom – A South Eastern and Chatham Railway passenger train overran signals at Tonbridge Junction, Kent and collided with a mail train killing two and injuring eleven.[110]
  • April 2, 1909 – United Kingdom – The locomotive of a Caledonian Railway express passenger train lost a driving wheel due to the failure of its crank axle causing the train to derailed near Crawford, Lanarkshire.[111]
  • April 21, 1909 – United Kingdom – At Cardiff, Wales, a driver returned his 0-6-2 tank engine to the shed because the injectors would not work and the pressure-gauge needle was against the maximum stop at 200 psi (1.4 MPa). He and others assumed that the gauge was reading high, since the safety valves should have opened at 145 psi, and planned to replace the gauge; but in fact the safety valves had been misassembled during a repair after the engine's last run, and the boiler pressure was well above 200 psi, which was also why the injectors did not work. The pressure continued rising until the boiler exploded and flew 45 yards (40 m) through the air, killing three.[112][113]
  • June 1, 1909 – Canada – The Canadian Pacific Railway's eastbound Imperial Limited express passenger train ran into an open switch at Hobon, a station west of Chapleau, Ontario on the CPR's Lake Superior Division, causing damage to the locomotive and the mail car. The body of an unauthorized and unidentified rider was found in the wreckage.[114]
  • August 19, 1909 – United Kingdom – A passenger train derailed at Friezland, Cheshire killing the crew.[79]
  • October 18, 1909 – Canada – A passenger train derailed near Ramsey on the Lake Superior Division of the Canadian Pacific Railway when it encountered a herd of cattle being driven along the railroad right-of-way. Several cars were derailed causing only slight injuries to passengers.[115]
  • November 28, 1909 – Canada – A Great Northern Railway train derailed by a washout at Sapperton, British Columbia, killing 22 people.[104]
  • December 13, 1909 – United States – The New York Central Railroad's New York Central Limited, eastbound from St. Louis, collided at North East, Pennsylvania, on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad, with the rear of a stationary Chicago-Boston train killing at least six. Early reports incorrectly stated that the New York Central train was the 20th Century Limited.[116][117][118]

See also

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