Train Wrecks at MIXEDTRAFFIC.NET

If you want to see more on train wrecks, check out the links below:

 Danger Ahead - Historic Railway Disasters (Link)
Oops! David Johnston's Photos of Accidents, Collisions & Derailments
Brett Wirick's Railroad Crossing Derailment's Page (USA)
Quintinshill - 22 May 1915

Illustrated London News - Accidents & Disasters
Train Info-chest Wrecks Page - Heaps of Great Links

Latest Train Wreck Pics

April 28, 2006 - Two people were killed and dozens injured, one seriously, when a V/Line passenger train was derailed after colliding with a truck in country Victoria. The two-carriage V'Locity train with 36 passengers was travelling from Ararat to Melbourne when the accident occurred at 4pm. The high-speed train hit the trailer of a B-double truck at the Ercildoune level crossing at Trawalla, about 40 kilometres west of Ballarat, derailing it. The truck was knocked on to its side, and a large boulder it was carrying was thrown from the trailer.
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Amtrak Derailment - Lake City, South Carolina, USA
Ufton Nervet Disaster - November 15, 2004
The pics below were gleaned from various web-based news services. They show various images of the November 15, 2004 rail tragedy at Ufton Nervet. The train concerned was the 17.35 Paddington-Plymouth First Great western service. The train, a 125 HST Set collied with a motor car parked on the Ufton Nervet level crossing. In all, 7 people died including the train driver, 5 passengers, and the driver of the car. There is evidence to suggest that it was a suicide.
Archived Train Wreck Pics

Workers remove wreckage from 10 derailed oil tanks in Shaanxi Province China -June 14, 2004. 2 died in the crash.

Firefighters examine the wreckage from a train derailment in Glendale, California. Two Metrolink commuter trains derailed killing several people and injuring hundreds of others authorities.
 

Tanker derailment at a service station. Not a happy situation.

Queensland tilt-train wreck - November, 2004.

Queensland tilt-train wreck - November, 2004. Crash investigators having recovered the black box recorder have determined that the train was travelling close to twice the speed limit at the time of the derailment.

Doing 112km/h in a 60 km/h zone the $65 million Spirit of Townsville comes to grief.

November 11, 2003 - 46 were injured in a commuter derailment near Ballarat in Victoria. Investigators believe an act of sabotage caused the crash.

The Taranto - Milan Eurostar EF 9414 is seen after it crashed into a car killing one occupant and critically injuring another, near Foggia Southern Italy, Dec. 26, 2002. The car reportedly landed upside down on the tracks after spinning off the road.

July 5, 1920, the Aussies do their best to rid the British Empire of its Heir Apparent. The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) was travelling as a passenger when the Royal Train derailed near Wilgerup, Western Australia.

Highland Railways No.71 Clachnacuddin in trouble at Killiecrankie - Nov 17, 1893.

Stanier 8F No.48616 after an accident at Turvey, August 1960. The runaway was carrying a load of pre-assembled concrete sleepered track panels.

Merchant Pacific No.35020 Biddy Line after coming to a stand at Crewkerne with its centre driving axle broken. Note the buckeld rods.

Southern Loco No.30854 Howard of Effingham at the foot of Shawford embankment, July 20, 1952.

Ex LB&SCR C2X No.32522 fell into the river near Midhurst after floods washed away an underbridge - 19 Nov.1951.

1979 - Collision between Glasgow-Dundee passenger train and Glasgow-Aberdeen Express

Preston 1896 - 2-4-0 No 2159 Shark and 2-4-0 No 275 Vulcan doubleheading a Euston-Glasgow express

Castlecary 1937 - GresleyPpacific No 2744 Grande Parade buried under wreckage of Dundee train

Didcott 1967 - Warship Class No D533 high speed derailment

Pershore 1984 - Hereford to Paddington. The last 4 coaches broke off at 80mph. Note the damaged track.

1983 Paddington - Night Riviera carriage derailment

1868 Bullo Pill, West Wales - 4-4-0 mail train Rob Roy tailends a stationery cattle train

1952 Harrow & Wealdstone - LMS Pacific No 46202 Princess Anne

Unknown train wreck

Unknown wreck

LMS Stanier 4MT No 42474

BR Standard 7MT No 70017 Arrow

GWR 47xx Class No 4704

GWR 47xx Class No 4704

Paris 1895 - The Granville train overuns platform buffers at Gare Montparnasse

1927 - 2-6-2 Tank River Cray derailment

LNER A4 No 60006 Sir Ralph Wedgwood damaged in air raid on York

LNER A4 No 60006 Sir Ralph Wedgwood

Clapham 1998 - Poole to Waterloo train

Irk Valley Junction - Manchester 1953

Polmont, Scotland, 1986. This is what happens when a Class 47 diesel hits a cow at 85mph.

Shrewsbury 1907 - Experiemnt No 2052 Stephenson comes to grief on West of England Night Mail

Norton Fitzwarren 1940 - GWR 60xx Class No 6028 King George VI

BR No 30477

Unidentified USA wreck. This is what happens when you close the stopper of a tanker while it is still hot inside after steam cleaning.

Unidentified American wreck.

Unidentified American wreck.

Unidentified American wreck.