page_title: Gare Montparnasse
section_title: 1895 derailment
hierarchical_section_title: Gare Montparnasse / 1895 derailment
caption_attribution_description: English: Train wreck at Montparnasse Station, at Place de Rennes side (now Place du 18 Juin 1940), Paris, France, 1895. Български: Останки на локомотив при железопътно произшествие на гара Монпарнас, Париж, Франция, 1895 Català: Accident ferroviari a l'estació Montparnasse, París, França, 1895. Cymraeg: Damwain rheilffordd yng Nghorsaf Montparnasse, Paris, Ffrainc, 1895. Dansk: Ulykken på Gare Montparnasse, Paris, Frankrig, 1895. Deutsch: Zugunglück am Gare Montparnasse, Paris, Frankreich, 1895. Español: Accidente ferroviario en la estación de Montparnasse, París, Francia, 1895. Français&#160;: Accident ferroviaire de la gare Montparnasse, Paris, France, 1895. Italiano: Incidente ferroviario alla stazione di Montparnasse, Parigi, Francia, 1895. Magyar: Vasúti szerencsétlenség a Montparnasse pályaudvaron, Párizs, Franciaország, 1895. Nederlands: Treinongeluk Gare Montparnasse, Parijs, Frankrijk, 1895. Polski: Wypadek pociągu na stacji Montparnasse, Paryż, Francja, 1895. Русский: Авария экспресса Гранвиль-Париж, Вокзал Монпарнас, 1895. Tiếng Việt: Tai nạn tại ga Montparnasse, Paris, năm 1895
context_page_description: Gare Montparnasse, officially Paris-Montparnasse, is one of the six large Paris railway termini, and is located in the 14th and 15th arrondissements of Paris.
  The station opened in 1840, was rebuilt in 1852 and was relocated in 1969 to a new station just south of the original location — where subsequently the prominent Montparnasse Tower was constructed.
  The original station is noted for the Montparnasse derailment, where a steam train crashed through the station in 1895, an event captured in widely known photographs — and reproduced in full scale in several locations.
  The station serves intercity TGV trains to the west and south-west of France including Tours, Bordeaux, Rennes and Nantes, and suburban and regional services on the Transilien Paris – Montparnasse routes. There is also a metro station.
  Gare Montparnasse is the only mainline terminus in Paris not directly connected to the RER system, though the Montparnasse main line is connected to the RER at Versailles-Chantiers and the LGV Atlantique at Massy Palaiseau.
context_section_description: The Gare Montparnasse became famous for the derailment on 22 October 1895, of the Granville–Paris Express, which overran the buffer stop. The engine careered across almost 30 metres (100 ft) of the station concourse, crashed through a 60-centimetre (2 ft) thick wall, shot across a terrace and smashed out of the station, plummeting onto the Place de Rennes 10 metres (33 ft) below, where it stood on its nose. Two of the 131 passengers sustained injuries, along with the fireman and two conductors. The only fatality was a woman on the street below, Marie-Augustine Aguilard, who was temporarily taking over her husband's work duty while he went out to get the newspapers. She was killed by falling masonry. The railway company later paid for her funeral and provided a pension to look after her two children. The accident was caused by a faulty Westinghouse brake and the engine driver, who was trying to make up lost time.
  A conductor was given a 25-franc fine and the engine driver a 50-franc fine.
  Replicas of the train crash are recreated outside the Mundo a Vapor ("Steam World") museum chain buildings in Brazil, in the southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul, in the city of Canela.
caption: Granville–Paris Express wreck on 22 October 1895.
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