page_title: List of rail accidents (2010–2019)
section_title: 2015
hierarchical_section_title: List of rail accidents (2010–2019) / 2015
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Relevage de la motrice TGV Dasye 29787 (rame 744) après l'accident Eckwersheim, survenu durant une marche d'essais le 14/11/2015. Image partagée sur Flickr&#160;: https://flic.kr/p/BamKgB
context_page_description: This is a list of rail accidents which occurred between 2010 and 2019.
context_section_description: 7 January  2015 – Canada – A CN freight train hauling 114 cars heading east from Edmonton, Alberta to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan derails between the community of Jarrow, Alberta and village of Irma. Twenty-three cars derail, of which one begins leaking a non-dangerous liquid adhesive. The ensuing cleanup resulted in the temporary closure of a section of Highway 14.
  14 January  2015 – United States – A Texas Department of Criminal Justice bus with 12 inmates and three officers is traveling from Abilene, Texas to El Paso, Texas when it collides with a train, near Odessa, Texas, killing 10.
  3 February  2015 – United States – Valhalla train crash - A Metro-North Railroad train strikes a Mercedes-Benz SUV at a crossing near Valhalla, New York, and catches fire, killing six people. 
  13 February 2015 – India – Anekal derailment - Derailment of an Intercity Express in the Bangalore of Karnataka, India kills ten and injures 150 more.
  16 February 2015 – Canada – A CN freight train transporting crude oil derails 80 km south of Timmins, Ontario. 29 of 100 cars derail, and seven crude oil tank cars catch fire. There are no injuries and the burning oil is contained to the area.
  16 February 2015 – United States – 2015 Mount Carbon train derailment - A CSX freight train derails in West Virginia. A broken rail caused nineteen Bakken crude oil tank cars to catch fire, with over 1,100 people evacuated from their homes nearby.
  20 February 2015 – Switzerland – Rafz train crash - An S-Bahn train and an Interregio express train collide at Rafz.
  22 February 2015 – United Kingdom – The London to Penzance express hits remains of a stone bridge parapet in Froxfield, Wiltshire. A police emergency number operator, improperly trained, sent police to investigate the truck hitting the parapet and should have also contacted the local rail control centre.
  24 February 2015 – United States – 2015 Oxnard train derailment - A Metrolink  train hits a road vehicle at Oxnard, California and derails. The train engineer dies and 29 others are injured.
  25 February 2015 – United States –  A CN freight train traveling from Winnipeg, Manitoba to Superior, Wisconsin derails 25 miles northwest of Duluth, Minnesota. Thirteen of the 107 cars in the train derail, some of which contain naphthalene. No injuries or spills were reported.
  2 March 2015 – United States – A Union Pacific train hauling hazardous material derails near Meacham, Oregon; 10 cars jump the tracks in a narrow canyon overlooking Meacham Creek.
  5 March 2015 – United States – A BNSF oil train derails in a rural area near Galena, Illinois. Twenty-one of the 105 cars, containing Bakken formation crude oil, leave the track and catch fire, which continues to burn. No injuries are reported.
  6 March 2015 – Netherlands – A passenger train runs into the rear of a freight train between Tilburg Universiteit and Tilburg stations. A few passengers suffer slight injuries.
  7 March 2015 – Canada – A CN freight train derails near the small Northern Ontario village of Gogama, Ontario.  Forty of 100 cars derail, with 5 entering the Makami River and 7 carrying crude oil catching fire and burning for several days. It is the second CN derailment in the area in the past month.
  7 March 2015 – United Kingdom – 2015 Wootton Bassett SPAD incident - A charter train overruns a signal at Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire and comes to a stop foul of a junction, where an express train has passed through a minute earlier. As a direct result of the incident, West Coast Railways was banned from accessing all rail lines in the United Kingdom until remedial preventions were put in place.
  9 March 2015 – United States – 2015 Halifax train crash - An Amtrak passenger train collides with a tractor trailer in Halifax, North Carolina. No life-threatening injuries were reported. The accident was caught on video.
  10 March 2015 – Vietnam – Dien Sanh train crash - A passenger train collides with a vehicle on a level crossing in Hai Lang District and is derailed. The train driver is killed and four people are seriously injured.
  12 March 2015 – Netherlands – A fir
caption: Eckwersheim.
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