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Shouldn't the page be renamed 'Rail disasters', because accidents can usually mean there is nobody to blame. If someone intentionally causes a disaster, such as the London Underground bombings, then saying it's a disaster could be offensive to those who just survived, or to families of those who died in bombings. You don't call 9/11 an 'accident' do you? Just making my point here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.125.225.224 (talk) 16:40, 14 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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The following entries were removed as they were unreferenced. Feel free to reference and re-add them. Mjroots (talk) 08:45, 28 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  • February 6, 2000 – Germany – Brühl, Germany: An express night train from Amsterdam to Basel passes a construction area at excess speed and derails at Brühl station on the main line between Cologne and Bonn, crashing into a nearby house. Nine people die.
  • March 2, 2000 – Denmark – Kølkær, Denmark: Two regional trains collide head-on after one passes a red signal. Three people die and 39 are injured.
  • April 5, 2000 – Norway – Lillestrøm in Skedsmo, Norway: A freight train's brakes fail between Strømmen and Lillestrøm; it collides with a stationary freight train at Lillestrøm station. Two gas wagons loaded with propane catch fire and 2000 people are evacuated in fear of a boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE); there are not any casualties.
  • June 6, 2000 India – A bomb explodes on a train in Bathinda, India, killing two people and injuring one.
  • June 28, 2000 – Indonesia – 13 children die after a goods train they were riding on derails in Padang. As a result the Indonesian government cracks down on passengers clinging onto the sides of freight trains as a means of free travel. (Source- BBC)
  • July 13, 2000 – Canada – At 14:15, a CN train hauling 28 grain cars derails after hitting a tractor trailer hauling a caterpillar 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) west of Wainwright, Alberta. The locomotive engineer and conductor, and the truck driver were only slightly injured.
  • July 28, 2000 – Brazil – At 21:15, a commuter train stopped at Perus station is struck by another, which had started moving on a sloped section of 5.5 kilometers (3.4 mi) because of a brake failure associated with power supply failure (overhead lines) near Jaraguá station. Nine people were killed and 115 injured.
  • August 15, 2000 – Kenya –According to a Kenya Broadcasting Corporation report, a Butere–Kisumu commuter train carrying 400 passengers derails on the shoreline of Lake Victoria, Lela, Nyanza, Kenya, in an incident caused by brake failure, killing 13 people; another 36 are injured.
  • August 17, 2000 – Kenya – Six die in Kisumu after a freight train hits a packed bus on a busy level crossing during the morning rush hour.
  • August 19, 2000 – Kenya – According to a Kenya Television Network report, a Mombasa–Nairobi freight train with liquefied gas explodes and catches fire at Mavoko, Eastern, Kenya, killing 25 people and injuring 50; most of the dead and injured are residents of houses near the railroad line.
  • April 26, 2001 – United States – A freight train hits a back of a semi near Chicago, Illinois, causing multiple car wrecks along the busy traffic.
  • December 25, 2001 – Indonesia – A packed passenger train careens into a station just outside Brebes, Indonesia and slams into a stationary train from Jakarta, killing 27 people and seriously injuring dozens according to the local authorities and Indonesian Red Cross.
  • March 30, 2002 – Spain – A Spanish high-speed express train on the Valencia–Barcelona route of the Euromed collides head-on with the Tortosa-Barcelona Catalunya express. Between both trains, 600 passengers were on board, five cars of the Euromed are damaged at Torredembarra station, outskirts of Tarragona, Catalunya, Spain. At least four people die and another 88 are injured.
  • May 2, 2002 – Canada – Firdale, Manitoba, Canada: An eastbound CN train collides with a trailer; about 20 cars carrying plastic pellets, benzene, glycol and hexane catch fire, forcing the evacuation of nearly 200 residents.
  • May 25, 2002 – Mozambique – Tenga, Mozambique: In an accident reminiscent of the 1889 Armagh rail disaster, passenger carriages, separated from a train also carrying freight, run away and smash into a cement train, killing 200 people.
  • May 28, 2002 – United States – Clarendon, Texas, United States: A BNSF Railway coal train exceeds its movement authority under an "after-arrival" track warrant while the engineer is making a personal cell phone call, and collides head-on with a BNSF intermodal train. All four crew members jump from their trains before impact and are injured, the intermodal engineer fatally.
  • December 21, 2002 – India – Kurnool train crash, 20 people die when a passenger train derails in Andhra Pradesh, the result of sabotage.
  • Jan 6, 2003 – United States – Burbank, California: A Metrolink train struck a stake truck at the dangerous Buena Vista crossing and derails in the Los Angeles suburb, killing 2 people and injuring over 30. This crossing had several previous non-fatal accidents.
  • March 1, 2003 – Taiwan – Chiayi. A brake system malfunction aboard a train on the Alishan Forest Railway causes the driver to lose control and the train plummets into a valley. 17 people die, 173 injured.
  • May 9, 2003 – Hungary – Siófok. A German tourist bus disregards the crossing signal at a level crossing and is struck by a fast train from Budapest to Nagykanizsa. 33 tourists are killed.
  • October 14, 2003 – Taiwan – At Yingge, Taipei County (now New Taipei City), Taiwan, a bus carrying students on a field trip collides with a south-bound train, killing 4 and injuring 42.
  • November 26, 2003 – Democratic Republic of the Congo – Matadi-Kinshasa Railway - a train runs off the line in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and is damaged in the river, officially causing 10 deaths.
  • April 7, 2004 - United States - Flora, Mississippi, United States. 1 person dies and 35 are injured when Amtrak train The City of New Orleans derails over the Big Black River due to an out of place section of rail.
  • August 4, 2004 – Turkey – Near Tavsancil. 6 die and 85 are injured when a train driver falls asleep at the controls, goes through a red light and hits a stationary train head-on.
  • October 23, 2004 – Japan – Nagaoka, Niigata. During the Chūetsu Earthquake eight of ten cars of the Toki No. 325 train on the Jōetsu Shinkansen derail. None of the 154 passengers are killed or injured.
  • November 3, 2004 – United States – Washington, D.C. An out-of-service Washington Metro train rolls backwards into the Woodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan Station and hits a revenue train servicing the station. No one dies, 20 people are injured. The National Transportation Safety Board [RAR-06/01] determines that the probable cause was the failure of the operator of the out-of-service train to apply the brakes to stop the train, likely due to his reduced alertness.
  • November 10, 2004 – Turkey – Ankara. 37 die when an express train hits a truck on a crossing near Ankara and derails.
  • November 14, 2004 – Turkey – Ankara. 15 people die and 45 injured as an express train derails near Ankara.
  • January 12, 2005 – Canada – Fort St. John, Manitoba. 5 cars of a CN propane tanker train de-rail, causing a major evacuation.
  • January 17, 2005 – Thailand – Bangkok. 140 passengers are injured in a collision of 2 metro trains in the new MRT Blue-line.
  • February 14, 2005 – United States – Oxnard, California. An Amtrak Pacific Surfliner train smashes into a semi truck carrying frozen strawberries. The heavy impact destroyed the back of the semi, severely damaged the train's front, and separated the locomotive from the rest of the passenger cars. There were 2 people aboard the train who had minor injuries. The cause of the accident was that the traffic signal wasn't functioning correctly with the railroad crossing, causing the confused truck driver to stop on the railroad tracks. There are 2 cameras set up on both sides of the crossing, showing the accident.
  • April 14, 2005 – United States – Solon Springs, Wisconsin 19 cars of a CN train derail and cause a forest fire.
  • May 9, 2005 – India – Biaora, 8 die when a bullock cart is hit at a level-crossing in Biaora.
  • June 30, 2005 – Indonesia – 2 die and 80 are injured (most seated on the train's roof) when a passenger train between Bogor and Jakata ploughs into the back of another train that is waiting in the station after a previous train had broken down outside the same station. Intense rain is blamed for reducing visibility.
  • July 14, 2005 – Poland – Gliwice, two freight trains crash entering the station, one engineer dies, the engineer of the other train is seriously injured.
  • November 26, 2005 – United Kingdom – Moy near Inverness, Scotland. 9 are airlifted to hospital when a First ScotRail Class 170 DMU derails after hitting debris from a landslide caused by a local blizzard.
  • Jan 6, 2006 – United States – Burbank, California: A Metrolink train struck a passenger car at the dangerous Buena Vista crossing in this Los Angeles suburb, killing 1. This confusing and badly designed crossing had several previous fatal and non-fatal accidents and Metrolink had ignored NTSB recommendations to improve it.[original research?]
  • February 16, 2006 – Greece – Serres, Greece. An inter-city train strikes a truck at a grade crossing near Serres and derails. A passenger and the truck driver die, and 20 people on the train are injured.
  • March 10, 2006 – Taiwan – Hualien, 5 railroad workers die when hit by a southbound train.
  • July 11, 2006 – Bangladesh – A train collide with crowded bus at an unmanned railroad crossing at Akkelpur, Jaipurhat, Bangladesh, killing at least 33 people, another 30 are injured.
  • November 9, 2006 – India – 40 people die and 15 are injured in a West Bengal rail accident.
  • December 28, 2006 – Mexico – In the industrial zone of Cuautitlán in Mexico City, 24 people die when their bus collides with a 36-wagon freight train. Another 12 passengers arehurt. Police arrest the bus driver who reportedly tried to flee the scene.
  • January 10, 2007 – Woburn, Massachusetts - A MBTA Commuter train crashes into a work crew, killing two and injuring three crew members. 40 passengers on the train are also injured.
  • February 6, 2007 – Hungary: An EU Regio passenger train traveling 101 km/h hits the end of a freight train between Almásfüzítő and Komárom stations. The driver of the passenger train dies, 4 passengers are injured.
  • March 6, 2007 – A freight train collides with a Diivarasekwa–Mbare regular route bus at a rail crossing on the outskirts of Harare, Zimbabwe, killing 34 and injuring another 30.
  • April 16, 2007 – A passenger train crashes into a minibus carrying local council officials at an unmanned rail crossing in southern India, killing 11 people and injuring the other 12 in the vehicle. Seven of the injured are hospitalized in serious condition.
  • July 4, 2007 – A rail worker is killed by train numbered D1 near Jialing railway station. He saw the up train numbered T48 but did not see the down train numbered D1 from the other direction.
  • July 30, 2007 – Two subway trains collide in Caracas, Venezuela in a tunnel near the Plaza Sucre station in western Caracas, leaving 1 person dead and 6 injured.
  • October 13, 2007 – 4 people die and more than 50 are injured when the rear carriages of the Probhati Express derails near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  • January 7, 2008 – A freight train is derailed by a tornado near Harvard, Illinois. The entire incident was recorded on a surveillance camera on the front of the train. No one was injured.
Just found some newspaper report for that; still researching, since the YouTube video of that incident is well known among railroad fans…
Cleanup begins after first January tornadoes in 57 years Daily Herald article, January 8, 2008. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
--DscheJ-Ouh (talk) 21:35, 26 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • June 23, 2008 – A freight train rams into a minibus at a level crossing in Nurdagi, Gaziantep, Turkey, 11 bus passengers die.
  • August 16, 2008 – Torrential rains lead to a landslide which causes a packed passenger train to derail in Portarlington, County Laois, Republic of Ireland. No one is injured.
  • September 24, 2008 – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: two RapidKL LRT trains collide about 200 metres (660 ft) from the Bukit Jalil LRT station. A carriage of one of the trains involved in the accident hits the rear of the other train. Four passengers are injured.
  • November 19, 2008 – An LIRR train collides with another during AM Peak times. This caused serious mainline delays.
  • May 1, 2009 a passenger train travelling from Dublin–Waterford in Ireland struck a cow in south Co. Kilkenny at 8:25 p.m. The engine and one carriage partly derailed but was put back on the track by the sleepers. No one died but the engine sustained damage and required two other engines to remove it from the train. The rail line also sustained some damage.
  • May 9, 2009 – One railroad employee badly injured when a train heading from Jacksonville to Miami derailed near Palm Coast about 6:45 p.m. Two locomotives and 37 cars on the Florida East Coast Railway train jumped the tracks due to a kink in the rails. Some rail cars contained hydrochloric acid. Hazardous materials teams from the St. Johns County Fire-Rescue were called to the scene to try and prevent the leak and spread of the substance. On Sunday, a Jacksonville haz-mat team was sent to assist. Both engines of the train and 37 cars–including automobiles, corn syrup tanks and boxcars–left the tracks. No. 104 the leading engine was saved but 701 was damaged badly and was scrapped.
  • June 7, 2009 – A girl trying to take a picture of a nearby bridge in Bacău is struck and killed by a regional express train.
  • July 14, 2009 – A Dakota, Minnesota, and Eastern freight train collides with parked rail cars in a local yard in Bettendorf, Iowa, a part of the Quad Cities. Both the engineer and conductor, who are from Savanna, Illinois, die. The front locomotive is severely damaged and will likely be scrapped on site. The DM&E is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
  • August 4, 2009 – Bogor, Indonesia :2 Commuter train crash before reach Cilebut station. Only one killed on this accident and it was a Pakuan express train driver assistant.The 2 EMU type of this accident is 6000 series ex Toei Mita line (Used for Pakuan Express train) set 6151F and 2 set economic train used BN - Holec EMU'S.Later after this accident set 6151F (car 6151)has merged with survivor Kampung Bandan accident (set 6181, car 6188, 6175, 6176) and later 4 survived in 2 accident train in Jabodetabekser line was complete for restoration and later given name (Djoko Lelono 2)
  • August 14, 2009 – A bus ignores rail crossing signals in Scânteia (Iaşi county) and is struck by a semi-fast train, 14 die and 2 injured.
  • September 2, 2009 – A Riga – Daugavpils train near Livani is struck by a "Volvo" excavator. 1 person dies, 3 are injured. The driver of the excavator was drunk and did not see the train.
  • September 16, 2009, at 3pm a red line Luas tram and a double-decker number 16 Dublin Bus collided at the intersection of Abbey Street and O'Connell Street in Dublin city centre. The front section of the tram was derailed in the incident and the driver's cabin was crushed flat against the left hand side of the bus. At least 21 people were injured and three were seriously hurt, including the driver of the tram who had to be cut out from the wreckage.
  • September 21, 2009 – A passenger train derails after leaving Craiova station at a speed of about 100 km/h, injuring 16. Investigators suspect sabotage.
  • September 21, 2009 – A truck loaded with bricks is struck by a locomotive near Gura Ocniţei, Dâmboviţa County. The truck driver did not see the train coming. No injuries.
  • September 21, 2009 – A freight train loaded with diesel derails near Boju, Cluj County. Investigators suspect that the two locomotives of the train (one pulling, one pushing) are not synchronized in speed. Fuel leaks from the derailed cars. No injuries.
  • December 20, 2009 – A Paris RER train hits a concrete block and derails at Choisy-le-Roi, in the southern region of Paris, causing 17 injuries.
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