page_title: List of rail accidents (1950–1959)
section_title: 1957
hierarchical_section_title: List of rail accidents (1950–1959) / 1957
caption_attribution_description: English: After a bad collision on the ECML south of Welwyn Garden City. View southward, towards Hatfield and London; ex-Great Northern East Coast Main Line. The 19.10 express from Aberdeen to King's Cross, hauled by A2/3 Pacific No. 60520 'Owen Tudor', had passed several signals at Danger - in fog and in spite of exploding detonators - and ran into the rear of the 06.10 Baldock - King's Cross local train, which was already on its way, at a closing speed of about 25 mph. Rear coaches of the Local were wrecked, killing one passenger and severely injuring 25 others. The Pacific overturned as seen, the driver being badly injured but the fireman was almost unharmed. The coaches of the express and their passengers were also relatively unharmed.
context_page_description: This is a list of rail accidents from 1950 to 1959.
context_section_description: January 7, 1957 – United Kingdom – Welwyn Garden City rail crash (1957), England: An Aberdeen–London express train passes a red signal in mist and collides with the rear of a slower moving local train.  One person is killed and 25 injured.
  February 9, 1957 – United Kingdom – The engine crew of an unfitted freight train are forced out of the cab when live steam pours into it from a broken pipe. This causes a rear-end collision with another freight train at Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire. Two men are killed, including driver John Axon, who is awarded a posthumous George Cross for his actions in staying with the train after control had been lost.
  March 15, 1957 – Finland – Due to a failure in the transmission of train orders, two expresses collide head-on at Kuurila, about 30 miles (50 km) south of Tampere.  There is a blizzard and the trains are moving at speed; 26 people are killed and 48 injured.
  April 8, 1957 – South Africa – Two suburban trains collide at Woodstock; at least 20 are killed and 45 injured.
  July 3, 1957 – France – A collision between Mauves and Saint-Péray kills 35 people and injures 42.
  July 19, 1957 – France – Due to a mix-up in dispatching, an express from Nice to Paris is diverted into a siding at Bollène. The driver is able to slow to 60 mph (100 km/h) but the train derails on the turnout.  One car comes to rest on top of the steam locomotive, whose boiler is penetrated in the crash, so that many passengers are severely burned.  About 17 people are killed immediately, and 20 or 30 altogether, with about 70 injured.
  August 4, 1957 – Spain – A double-headed troop train crashes into a light engine at Villaverde.  Of some 800 people on board, at least 22 are killed and 51 injured.
  August 9, 1957 – United Kingdom – An electric multiple unit departs from Staines, Middlesex and is involved in a head-on collision with another train. Nine people are hospitalised.
  September 1, 1957 – British Jamaica – Apparently because a stopcock in the brake line is accidentally bumped by a coupler, the brakes fail on a heavily loaded 12-car church excursion train returning from Montego Bay to Kingston. The crew fails to detect and act on the problem until the train runs away and derails on a curve at Kendal.  Five cars roll into a ditch and two become wedged in a narrow cutting; 179 people are killed and hundreds injured.
  September 7, 1957 – France – Approaching a section where one track is closed for construction, a train from Paris to Nîmes fails to slow for the crossover at Nozières-Brignon station, and reaches it at 92 km/h (57 mph) instead of 30 km/h.  The locomotive derails and breaches a culvert under the track, which stops it suddenly, worsening the pileup of cars.  There are 27 people killed and 134 injured, 30 seriously.
  September 29, 1957 – British Nigeria – A 16-car train from Lagos to Kano is being driven carefully because of possible track damage from heavy rain, but when a culvert becomes blocked, the water rises rapidly and the driver is still caught unaware by the resulting washout, about 20 miles (30 km) south of Ibadan.  Seven cars derail; early reports indicate 300 people missing, but it turns out that many of them walked away.  However, 66 are killed and 122 injured.
  September 29, 1957 – Pakistan – Gambar train crash: At Montgomery, a Karachi-bound express passenger train collides at full speed with a stationary oil-tanker train before midnight. 300 people are killed and 150 injured by the accident.
  October 20, 1957 – Turkey – Yarımburgaz, Istanbul: Yarımburgaz train disaster, Two passenger trains collide head-on when  signalmen allow the trains into same occupied block section. The country's worst train accident with 95 deaths and 150 injuries.
  November 16, 1957 – France – Due to human error, a Micheline passenger train to Chartres is signaled to leave La Roche-sur-Yon while a freight is still approaching on the single track.  The trains crash head-on; 29 are killed and another 22 injured.
  November 16, 1957 – United States – The New York Central's Chicagoan, detoured off its normal route from Chicago t
caption: Welwyn Garden City.
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