page_title: List of rail accidents (1910–1919)
section_title: 1915
hierarchical_section_title: List of rail accidents (1910–1919) / 1915
caption_attribution_description: Postcard showing train wreck in Fairfield, Connecticut c1915
context_page_description: This is a list of rail accidents from 1910 to 1919.
context_section_description: January 1, 1915 – United Kingdom – Ilford rail crash: The 7:06 express from Clacton to London passed both distant and home signals. The express crashed into the side of a local train that had been crossing the tracks. 10 killed, 500 injured (including those reporting shock).
  March 18, 1915 – United Kingdom – A Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway express passenger train overruns signals and is in a rear-end collision with an empty stock train at Smithy Bridge, Lancashire. Four people are killed and 33 are injured.
  May 22, 1915 – United Kingdom – In the Quintinshill rail crash near Gretna Green, Scotland, a troop train collides with a stationary passenger train and another passenger train crashes into the wreckage, which also involves two stationary freight trains. The passenger cars are wooden-bodied and a serious fire ensues. The stationary passenger train was forgotten by a careless signalman, who had himself arrived on it, following improper operating practices during a shift change at this busy location. This is the deadliest railway accident in British history, with 226 fatalities and 246 people injured.
  August 14, 1915 – United Kingdom – Weedon rail crash: Express train derails after the track on the up main line is forced out of alignment by a detached coupling rod from a passing locomotive heading a down express. 10 passengers killed, 21 injured.
  October 19, 1915 – France – At Saint-Cyr-de-Favières, on the PLM railway, between Roanne and Lyon, several coaches of a derailed train fall into a deep ravine with heavy loss of life.
  November 22, 1915 - United States - A train carrying traveling circus from Atlanta, Georgia to Girard, Alabama collided with a passenger train that ignored a signal to stop at a junction near Columbus, Georgia.  There were no fatalities on the passenger train.  Reports conflict, but between 15 and 24 people aboard the circus train were killed.  The majority of the circus animals were killed in the resulting fires.
  December 15, 1915 – United Kingdom – A landslide near Warren Halt, Kent buries three people. A South Eastern and Chatham Railway train is derailed inside Martello Tunnel. The line is closed until 1 August 1919.
  December 17, 1915 – United Kingdom – St Bedes Junction rail crash: A passenger train collided with a banking engine in thick fog and another train crashed into the wreckage; 19 were killed.
caption: Train wreck-Fairfield Connecticut 1915
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