page_title: Zagreb train disaster
section_title: The accident
hierarchical_section_title: Zagreb train disaster / The accident
caption_attribution_description: English: View to the west from the overpass Strojarska street. Location rail disaster of 1974 years is about 300 meters away, another 150 m behind the wagons in the middle. Hrvatski: Pogled prema zapadu s nadvožnjaka Strojarske ulice. Mjesto željezničke nesreće iz 1974. godine je udaljeno oko 300 metara, još 150 m iza ovih vagona u sredini. Русский: Вид на запад от путепровода Строярска улице. Расположение железнодорожной катастрофе 1974 года составляет около 300 метров, еще 150 м за вагоны в середине. Deutsch: Blick nach Westen von der Überführung Strojarska Straße. Ort Zugunglück 1974 Jahren etwa 300 Meter entfernt, weitere 150 m hinter den Wagen in der Mitte. Українська: Розміщення залізничній катастрофі 1974 становить близько 300 метрів, ще 150 м за вагони в середині.
context_page_description: The Zagreb train disaster occurred on 30 August 1974 when an express train traveling from Belgrade to Dortmund, West Germany, derailed before entering Zagreb Main Station, killing 153 people. It was the worst rail accident in Yugoslavia's history to that date and remains one of the worst in Europe's history.
context_section_description: The accident occurred when all nine cars from a passenger express train derailed and rolled over at the entrance to Zagreb's main train station, 719 m (2,359 ft) from the entrance to Track IIa. At 22:33 hours the locomotive entered the station via Track IIa without any of its carriages.
  Many of the passengers died immediately, as many as 41 of whom could not be identified and were buried in a common grave at the Mirogoj Cemetery.
  The surviving passengers reported that the train had not slowed while passing through the stations at Ludina and Novoselec, about an hour before reaching Zagreb Main Station, and that it had been leaning dangerously.
  The passengers found were mainly gastarbeiters from West Germany and their families, including many children. The driver and driver's assistant remained unharmed, and the locomotive intact. The locomotive is now on display in the Croatian Railway Museum.
  The train was arriving in Zagreb from Vinkovci at 19:45 local time. The driver, Nikola Knežević, and his assistant, Stjepan Varga, were both exhausted, both of them having worked for two full days.
  A subsequent investigation into the accident showed that the train exceeded the speed limit by nearly 70 km/h (43 mph) at several points, so that instead of entering the station at the speed limit of 40 km/h (25 mph), the train was traveling at a speed of 104 km/h (65 mph). The crew also applied the brakes too late, so that the train quickly derailed into an unrecognizable wreck.
caption: The view to the west from Strojarska Road overpass. The crash site is located about 300 m (980 ft) away, 150 m (490 ft) behind the carriages in the centre of the picture.
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