page_title: Getå railroad disaster
section_title: The train
hierarchical_section_title: Getå railroad disaster / The train
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Dampflokomotive F 1200 Gävle 13.08.08
context_page_description: The Getå Railroad Disaster was a train disaster caused by a landslide in Getå, a town that is now part of the municipality of Norrköping on 1 October 1918. To date, it is the worst rail accident in Swedish history.
  The derailment occurred when the layers of colloidal clay and gravel in the embankment that had been cut into the hill gave way. Shortly afterwards, a mixed train consisting of a locomotive and ten cars came down the tracks, falling down the embankment and landing on the road below. Of the passengers and crew on board that night, 41 people were injured and at least 42 were killed or died later from injuries sustained in the crash. It is unclear how many died in the derailment compared to those who died in the blaze that followed it. Many of the passengers were burned alive as the unreinforced wooden cars caught fire, killing those who had survived the crash itself but were still trapped in the wreckage.
context_section_description: The derailed train consisted of the locomotive and 10 cars:
  The steam locomotive F 1200 (currently on display at the Swedish Railway Museum in Gävle).
  RPO DFo 1107 (destroyed)
  Freight car F1 25591 (destroyed)
  Passenger car C3d 2050 (destroyed)
  Passenger car Co5 2039 (destroyed)
  Passenger car Co1 1235 (destroyed)
  Passenger car Co5 2044 (destroyed)
  Dining car ABo3 2466 (repaired after the accident, scrapped in 1960)
  Sleeping car Bo1 1015 (undamaged, scrapped in 1949)
  Passenger car BCo 1429 (undamaged, scrapped in 1963)
  Extra freight car G3 19003 (undamaged, scrapped in 1952)
  The majority of those who perished were in cars 2039 and 1235. These had smashed into each other as the train derailed.
caption: The F 1200 locomotive in 2008
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