page_title: List of rail accidents (1900–1909)
section_title: 1906
hierarchical_section_title: List of rail accidents (1900–1909) / 1906
caption_attribution_description: English: Postcard, "The Railway Disaster at Salisbury, July 1st, 1906", postally used 1906
context_page_description: This is a list of rail accidents from 1900 to 1909.
context_section_description: March 16, 1906 – United States – Two passenger trains collided head-on near Adobe Station, between Portland and Florence, Colorado, on the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, due to a train dispatcher's error; thirty-four people were killed.
  April 6, 1906 – United Kingdom – A passenger train derailed and fouled the adjacent line at Kirtlebridge, Dumfriesshire. The wreckage was hit by another passenger train killing one and injuring several others.
  June 26, 1906 – United States – Carson Hill, California: A four car freight train on the Sierra Railway's Angel's Branch carrying 15 Tons of dynamite exploded. The blast of the explosion was reportedly heard in Stockton, California, 80 miles (130 km) to the east and a wheel from the boxcar carrying the dynamite was found embedded in the roof of a shed 5 miles (8.0 km) away; two crewmen were killed.
  June 30, 1906 – United Kingdom – Salisbury rail crash, Salisbury, England: A speeding express train derailed and collided with a milk train on a sharp curve killing 28 (24 passengers, 4 crew).
  August 13, 1906 – United States – Elizabeth, New Jersey: Four boys were killed on the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks by an Eastbound Express. The accident occurred where three levels of tracks crossed over Broad Street.
  September 8, 1906 – United States – Woodlands, West Virginia Two Trains collusion on bridge; 2 killed and 5 injured
  September 18, 1906 – United States – Dover, Oklahoma Territory: A bridge across the Cimarron River collapsed beneath a Rock Island train bound for Fort Worth, Texas from Chicago. The bridge was a temporary structure unable to withstand the pressure of debris and high water. Replacement with a permanent structure had been delayed by the railroad for financial reasons. Estimates of the number of fatalities range from 4 to over 100.
  September 19, 1906 – United Kingdom – Grantham rail accident, Grantham, England: An evening sleeping-car and mail train from London to Edinburgh that should have stopped at Grantham, England, failed to do so; no definite reason was ever establishe. The points beyond the station had not yet been set, and the train ran onto a sharp curve and derailed, killing 14 people.
  October 28, 1906 – United States – 1906 Atlantic City train wreck: On the newly electrified West Jersey and Seashore Railroad a Sunday afternoon passenger train, traveling towards Atlantic City, New Jersey at forty miles per hour (64 km/h), derailed on a draw (swing) bridge over a deep tidal channel. The train bumped along the ties for 150 feet (46 m) before departing the bridge and plunging into deep water. Fifty-three died in what was the worst U.S. drawbridge accident until the Newark Bay, New Jersey rail accident of September 15, 1958.
  November 12, 1906 – United States – At Woodville, Porter County, Indiana, on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the crew of an eastbound freight did not realize that westbound passenger train 47 was running in two sections and collided with the second section killing 43.
  November 24, 1906 – United Kingdom – A North Eastern Railway freight train runs into the rear of another at Ulleskelf, Yorkshire due to its driver racing a Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway express passenger train on an adjacent line and not keeping a lookout for his signals.
  December 28, 1906 – United Kingdom – Elliot Junction rail accident, Scotland: 22 killed.
  December 30, 1906 – United States – 1906 Washington DC train wreck: A Baltimore and Ohio Railroad locomotive running at full speed ran into a passenger train that had just pulled out of Terra Cotta (now Fort Totten) Station along the B&O Metropolitan Branch, telescoping the rear cars and taking the lives of fifty-three passengers.
caption: Salisbury train crash 1906
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