List of accidents and disasters by death toll
Rail accidents and disasters

List of accidents and disasters by death toll

Section Title: Rail accidents and disasters
Table Section Text: None

Deaths	Incident

1,700+	Sri Lanka tsunami train wreck (Sri Lanka, 26 December 2004)

800–1,000	Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne derailment (France, 12 December 1917)

600–1,000	Ciurea rail disaster (Romania, 14 January 1917)

500–800	Bihar train derailment (Bihar, India, 6 June 1981)

600–700	Vereshchyovka train disaster [ru] (Soviet Union, 24 January 1944)

600+	Guadalajara train disaster (Mexico, 22 January 1915)

575	Ufa train disaster (Soviet Union, 4 June 1989)

521–600+	Balvano train disaster (Italy, 3 March 1944)

200–500+	Torre del Bierzo rail disaster (Spain, 3 January 1944)

428	Awash rail disaster (Awash, Afar, Ethiopia, 13 January 1985)

383	Al Ayatt train disaster (Egypt, 20 February 2002)

360	1981 Chengdu-Kunming rail crash, (Ganluo County, China, 9 July 1981)

358	Firozabad rail disaster (Firozabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, 20 August 1995)

338	Rongjiawan train disaster (Rongjiawan, Hunan, China, 29 April 1997)

320	Nishapur train disaster (Iran, 18 February 2004)

307	Sukkur rail disaster (Sangi, Sindh, Pakistan, 4 January 1990)

300	Changsha rail disaster (Changsha, China, January 1918)

300~	Montemorelos, (Mexico, 1915)

300	Tolunda (Angola, 1994)

300	Gambar train crash, (Montgomery, Punjab, Pakistan, 29 September 1957)

289	Baku Metro fire (Baku, Azerbaijan, 28 October 1995)

285	Gaisal train disaster (Gaisal, West Bengal, India, 2 August 1999)

281	Igandu train disaster (Tanzania, 24 June 2002)

278	Genthin rail disaster (Genthin, Germany, 22 December 1939)

248	El Virilla train accident, (Costa Rica, 14 March 1926)

230	Lagny-Pomponne Railroad Disaster, (France, 23 December 1933)

226	Quintinshill rail crash (Scotland, 22 May 1915)

212	Khanna rail disaster (Khanna, Ludhiana, Punjab, India, 1998)

208	Saltillo, Coahuila (Mexico, 4 October 1972)

207	BASF tank car explosion, (Ludwigshafen, Germany, 28 July 1948)

200	Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki train disaster (Poland, 1949). Not confirmed by any official source, cf. Katastrofy kolejowe w Polsce [pl] (Polish)

192	Muamba rail disaster (Mozambique, 25 May 2002)

189	Nishinari train fire, (Osaka, Japan, 29 January 1940)

185	Aracaju train crash, (Aracaju, Sergipe, Brazil, 20 March 1946)

184	Komagawa train disaster (Komagawa, Saitama, Japan, 1947)

162	Mikawashima train crash (Tokyo, Japan, 3 May 1962)

161	Tsurumi rail accident (Japan, 9 November 1963)

160	Rzepin train disaster (Rzepin, Poland, July 9, 1952); Unconfirmed.

156	Bintaro train crash (Indonesia, 19 October 1987)

155	Kaprun disaster (Austria, 11 November 2000)

154	Ryongchon disaster (North Korea, 22 April 2004)

154	Mardaiyar river bridge derail disaster, (Tamil-Nadu, India, 1956)

153	Zagreb express train crash (Croatia, then Yugoslavia, 30 August 1974)

151	Tangiwai train disaster (New Zealand, 24 December 1953)

150	1965 Durban commuter train disaster, (KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, 1965)

150	Pukhrayan train derailment, (Pukhrayan, Uttar Pradesh, India, 20 November 2016)

148	Gyaneshwari Express train derailment, (West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, 28 May 2010)

142–236	Benavidez rail disaster (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1970)

100–140	Pontecagnano train disaster, Pontecagnano, Italy, 1944

139	Yasanti River train crash, (India, 28 September 1954)

135	Maizdi Khan trains disaster (Bangladesh, 1989)

132	Ghotki rail crash (Ghotki, Sindh, Pakistan, 13 July 2005)

131	Bouhalouane train crash, (Algeria, 27 January 1982)

130	Rafiganj train disaster (Rafiganj, Bihar, India, 10 September 2002)

130	Barwałd Średni trains disaster, (Poland, 1944)

128	Mirshah trains disaster, (Punjab, Pakistan, 1997)

128	Mangueira train disaster, (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 8 May 1958)

125	Railway bridge collapse, (India, 2 September 1956)

120	Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh (India, 1997)

120	Yaoundé train explosion (Cameroon, 14 February 1998)

119	Anchieta rail disaster (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 4 March 1952)

118	Stéblová train disaster (Czechoslovakia, 14 November 1960)

118	Moimenta-Alcafache train crash, (Portugal, 11 September 1985)

114	Veligonda train disaster (Veligonda, Andhra Pradesh (now in Telangana), India, 29 October 2005)

114	Ngai Ndethya (Kenya, 1993)

112	Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash (England, 8 October 1952)

112	San Rafael River train disaster (Mexico, 10 August 1989)

112	Nebukawa, derailment caused by the Great Kantō earthquake, (Japan, 1 September 1923)

110	Tsuchiura triple trains crash (Tsuchiura, Japan, 1943)

108	Tangua train disaster, (Brazil, 1950)

107	Patna train derailed (Bihar, India, 1937)

107	Vierzy tunnel trains derailed, (Aisne, France, 1972)

107	Amagasaki rail crash (Japan, 25 April 2005)

107	Peruman railway accident (Kerala, India, 8 July 1988)

106	Sakuragichō train fire commuter train fire (Yokohama, Japan, 24 April 1951)

106	Kamensk-Shakhtinsky rail disaster (Russia, 7 August 1987)

106	Yangzhuang station trains disaster, (Henan, China, 1978)

105	Tama river trains disaster, (Hachioji, Japan, 1945)

103	Šakvice train disaster, (Czechoslovakia, 24 December 1953)

93–102	Malbone Street Wreck, (Brooklyn, NY, 1 November 1918)

102	Aßling train disaster, (Aßling, Germany, 16 July 1945)

102	Wuntho train disaster, (Myanmar, 1994)

101	Markdorf train disaster, (Markdorf, Germany, 22 December 1939)

101	Eschede train disaster (Germany, 3 June 1998)

101	The Great Train Wreck of 1918 (Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 9 July 1918)

100	Col des Nuages (Pass of the Clouds) derailment, (East Indochina (Vietnam), 24 June 1953)

100	Benaleka train crash, (Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1 August 2007)

99	St-Hilaire train disaster, (Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada, 29 June 1864)

97	Eden train wreck, (Colorado, United States, 7 August 1904)

96	Great Wellington train disaster, (Sky Valley Washington, United States, 1 March 1910)

94	Langenweddingen level crossing disaster, (Magdeburg, Germany, 6 July 1967)

93	Harmelen train disaster, (Netherlands, 8 January 1962)

92	Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster, (Ashtabula, Ohio, 29 December 1876)

91	Lewisham rail crash, (Lewisham, London, England, 4 December 1957)

91	Arzamas train disaster, (Arzamas, Russia, 4 June 1988)

90	Hunan rail disaster, (Hunan, China, 30 May 1946)

Sentence(s)

The Ciurea rail disaster is the third worst rail accident in terms of the number of victims.

final_sentence: The Ciurea rail disaster is the third worst rail accident in terms of the number of victims.