page_title: List of rail accidents (2020–present)
section_title: 2020
hierarchical_section_title: List of rail accidents (2020–present) / 2020
caption_attribution_description: English: Wreckage being cleared at Pak Tho station, Thailand, on February 26, 2020. Two days after a head-on collision took place after the station.
context_page_description: This is a list of rail accidents since 2020.
context_section_description: 1 January – United States - A BNSF freight train strikes a landslide and derails near Bonner's Ferry, Idaho. Both locomotives end up in the Kootenai River. Two crew are rescued by boat.
  2 January – Netherlands – A passenger train derails between Den Haag Centraal and Den Haag Ypenburg stations.
  7 January – Mexico – 7 people die and more than 30 injured when a Ferromex train strikes a bus at a level crossing.
  23 January – United Kingdom – A freight train derails between Leyton Midland Road and Walthamstow Queens Road stations, London, damaging more than 2 miles (3.2 km) of track.
  28 January – United Kingdom – A freight train hauled by a Class 70 locomotive derails at Eastleigh, Hampshire. The cause is a track defect.
  29 January – Australia– A freight train derails near Barnawartha, Victoria and collides with a passenger train coming in the other direction.
  6 February
  Italy – Livraga derailment: A Frecciarossa high-speed train derails at Livraga. Two people are killed and 31 are injured.
  Canada – A Canadian Pacific freight train carrying crude oil derails and catches fire at Guernsey, Saskatchewan. The village is partly evacuated. The Canadian government halves the speed limit for freight trains carrying hazardous materials as a result.
  13 February – United States – Five cars of a 96-car CSX freight train derail in Draffin, Kentucky due to a rockslide. The locomotives and train cars caught fire, causing evacuations of nearby communities. Two crew members from the train were taken to a hospital.
  20 February – Australia – 2020 Wallan derailment: Sydney to Melbourne bound XPT derail near Wallan, Victoria. Two people were killed, one airlifted to hospital.
  24 February – Thailand – a freight train and a passenger train collide head on at Pak Tho Railway Station in Ratchaburi at about 18:30. At least 30 people are injured.
  26 February – Netherlands – a passenger train collides with a lorry on a level crossing at Udenhout, North Brabant. No injuries are reported amongst the 250 passengers on the train.
  28-29 February – Pakistan – a passenger train collides with a bus on a level crossing near Rohri, Sindh. - Sukkur bus-train collision
  4 March – Canada – Freight train derails in Kingston, Ontario 
  5 March
  France – 2020 Ingenheim derailment: A TGV derails near Ingenheim, Bas-Rhin due to a landslip. Twenty-two people are injured, one seriously.
  Canada – CN freight train derails near Giscome, which is about 40 kilometres east of Prince George and next to Eaglet Lake, at around 10 a.m. PT.
  9 March – Japan – A Geibi Line train rolls over due to sediment on the track. No injuries were reported.
  10 March – Mexico –  A Mexico City Metro train crashes into another at Tacubaya station. 1 person dies and 41 are injured.
  12 March - United States - A CSX Train derails near Tiffin University, Ohio.
  23 March - United Kingdom – a Class 66 locomotive runs through a buffer stop at Bromsgrove, ending up fouling a running line. A Class 170 diesel multiple unit collides with the derailed locomotive. No injuries are reported amongst the six people on board.
  27 March – 2020 New York City Subway fire: A series of fires on the IRT Broadway - Seventh Avenue Line and IRT Lenox Avenue Line caused a fire on the 2 train at 110th Street station on the Lenox Avenue Line killing the train operator and injuring 16 other people.
  30 March – China – A passenger train (Jinan - Guangzhou) derails after colliding to a debris on the track due to the landslide in Hunan Province, 1 onboard railroad police was killed and 127 people were injured.
  1 April – United States – A locomotive train is intentionally derailed near USNS Mercy, though no injuries are reported. The engineer, 44-year-old Eduardo Moreno, was arrested by federal authorities and charged with train-wrecking.
  3 April – Germany – A freight train collides with a concrete piece of a bridge near a construction site. The engineer is killed and 3 others were injured.
  29 April – Norway – A passenger train collides with a lorry on a level crossing at Skien and is derailed.
  8 May – India - Aurangabad railway accident - 
caption: Wreckage being cleared at Pak Tho station, Thailand
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