page_title: List of rail accidents (1910–1919)
section_title: 1918
hierarchical_section_title: List of rail accidents (1910–1919) / 1918
caption_attribution_description: English: The train accident in Getå, Sweden, October 1, 1918, was the most serious in Swedish railway history. At least 42 people died.The locomotive is called F1200. Deutsch: Das Zugunglück in Getå, Schweden am 1. Oktober 1918 war das schwerste der schwedischen Bahngeschichte. Mindestens 42 Personen starben. Die Lokomotive ist vom Typ F1200.
context_page_description: This is a list of rail accidents from 1910 to 1919.
context_section_description: January 8, 1918 – Germany – A train carrying troops going on leave collides with another train between Kaiserslautern and Homburg, killing at least 30 and injuring at least 100.
  January 9, 1918 – United Kingdom – Little Salkeld rail accident: A Midland Railway train from London to Glasgow is derailed by a landslip in a cutting, killing seven passengers.
  January 14, 1918 – United States – A Houston and Texas Central Railway passenger train derails at Hammond, Texas. 17 killed, 10 injured.
  January 16, 1918 – Germany – At Kirn, a flash flood in the river Nahe caused by a dam failure  washes out an embankment, and several cars of a train go into the water. Only 10 bodies are found in the first few days, but eventually the death toll is reported as 25, with 25 injured.
  January 16, 1918 – Germany – At Bohmte on the line between Bremen and Osnabrück, two trains collide in a snowstorm; 33 are killed and 110 injured, all soldiers.
  January 18, 1918 – Germany – At Argeningkem  in East Prussia, south of Tilsit (now Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia), a train carrying soldiers on leave collides with a passenger train, killing 23 people and injuring 50.
  January 18, 1918 – United Kingdom – Two Cambrian Railways freight trains were in a head-on collision at Park Hall, Shropshire due to irregular operation of tablet instruments by signalmen at Oswestry North and Ellesmere Junction signal boxes. The design of the circuitry connecting the instruments and the weather were contributory factors.
  February 7, 1918 – Austria-Hungary – A fire on board a crowded train from Stanislav (now Ivano-Frankivsk) to Lvov (now Lviv) brings it to a stop at midnight on a bridge between Jezupol and Wodniki (now Yezupil and Vodnyky; all these places are now in Ukraine). Many people are killed, including passengers who jump into the Dniester River and drown.
  March 15, 1918 - United States - Two women passengers are killed and 30-40 others receive cuts and bruises when WB train No. 19 of the Pennsylvania Railroad is struck by a rock slide in a cut near Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, with a large boulder overturning two Pullman cars in the middle of the consist.
  April 11, 1918, – France – Twenty-nine men of the 4th Battalion Kings Liverpool Regiment killed in a troop train explosion. They were buried in the military cemetery at Chocques in the Pas de Calais.
  April 15, 1918, – United States – Central Islip, New York (now Islandia, New York)  – Long Island Rail Road troop train leaving Camp Upton derails at Foot's Crossing (now the NY 454 bridge). Originally believed to be a result of enemy sabotage, but later found to be caused by defective rails. 3 soldiers dead and 36 soldiers injured.
  April 18, 1918 – United Kingdom – A London Brighton and South Coast Railway freight train becomes divided with the result that four wagons come to rest in Redhill Tunnel, Surrey. A signalman's error allows the following train to crash into the wagons. The line is blocked for two days.
  May 9. 1918 - United States - A trainman is killed and several passengers injured late this date when the railway post office car and one coach of a St. Louis–San Francisco Railway passenger train derails near Heburn, Oklahoma.
  May 10, 1918 - United States - As a troop train carrying the advance guard of the 321st Infantry departs Camp Jackson, Columbia, South Carolina, for Camp Sevier, near Greenville, a broken wheel under one coach, wooden, causes it to derail at ~1000 hrs. and drops the car from a high trestle near the camp, and pulls the second coach, steel, with it. Seven soldiers are killed immediately and ten others seriously injured, three of whom are not expected to live.
  June 5, 1918 - United States - Due to a claimed mistake in train orders, a local passenger train collides head on into the engine of a work train in a tunnel on the Central Vermont Railroad, between Burlington and Winooski, killing five and injuring several others. Seven are removed to hospital but no passengers are killed.
  June 22, 1918 – United States – Hammond circus train wreck, near Hammond, Indiana: An empty Michigan C
caption: Getå Railroad Disaster October 1918.
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