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This is a list of rail accidents from 1900 to 1909.

{{Lists of rail accidents years}}

==1900==
* February 16 – ''United Kingdom'' – a [[Cleator and Workington Junction Railway]] freight train derailed when the formation was washed away by heavy rain.{{sfn|Trevena|1980|p=16}}
[[File: Harcourt St train crash 1900.jpg|thumb|February 20, 1900, Dublin.]]
[[File:Camp Creek train wreck of 1900 2013-12-27 19-50.jpg|thumb|Camp Creek train wreck of 1900]]
[[File:Tacoma wash street car wreckage 7-4-1900 2.jpg|thumb|Tacoma wreck July 4, 1900]]
* February 20 – ''United Kingdom'' – A [[Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway]] freight train overran the [[buffer stop]]s at {{rws|Harcourt Street}} station, [[Dublin]] (now in the [[Republic of Ireland]]) and ran through the end wall of the station. [[0-6-0]] locomotive ''Wicklow'' was suspended over Hatch Street immediately after the collision.{{sfn|Trevena|1980|p=15}}
* April 30 – ''United States'' – The ''Cannonball Express'' pulled by [[Illinois Central 382]], en route from [[Memphis, Tennessee]] to [[Canton, Mississippi]], with [[Casey Jones|John "Casey" Jones]] as engineer, collided with a stalled freight train at [[Vaughan, Mississippi]]. The engineer of the Cannonball, Casey Jones, was the only fatality.{{citation needed|date=March 2015}}
* June 16 – ''United Kingdom'' –  '''[[Slough rail accident]]'''  -  [[Slough]]. [[Great Western Railway]] express train from [[Paddington railway station|London Paddington]] ran into the rear of a local train at [[Slough railway station|Slough station]], killing five people and seriously injuring 35.<ref>Robertson, Kevin, "Odd Corners of the G.W.R.", The History Press, Stroud, England, 2010, {{ISBN|978-0-7509-3458-9}}, page 134</ref>{{sfn|Trevena|1981|pp=17–18}}
*  June 23 – ''United States'' – '''[[Camp Creek train wreck]]''' – [[McDonough, Georgia]]: A [[Southern Railway (U.S.)|Southern Railway]] train from [[Macon, Georgia]] bound for [[Atlanta]] ran into a washout over Camp Creek near McDonough and plunged {{convert|60|feet}} into the swollen creek below before bursting into flames, killing 39 of the 49 aboard. The flagman, J.J. Quinlan, acted heroically, running all the way to town and alerting the telegraph operator to the disaster before procuring a length of rope and saving two female passengers.<ref>"Whole Car Load Of Travelers Killed." ''The New York Times'' 25 June 1900. Print.</ref>
*July 4 – ''United States'' – '''[[Tacoma streetcar disaster]]''' – An overloaded streetcar failed to negotiate a curve and plunged down an embankment near a trestle that spans today's South Tacoma Way in Tacoma, Washington. The disaster resulted in 43 deaths and approximately 65 injuries, many serious.
*July 24 – ''United Kingdom'' – A [[Midland Railway]] passenger train derailed at {{rws|Amberswood}}, [[Lancashire]] killing one.{{sfn|Spence|1975|p=76}}
* August 30 – ''United States'' – On the [[Great Northern Railway (U.S.)|Great Northern Railway]], 18 loaded freight cars separated off the rear of an eastbound train, ran away backward, and after {{convert|16|mi|km}} crashed into a business car at the rear of a westbound passenger train at [[Nyack, Montana]]. Three people were killed in the business car and 33, all railway employees, in the next car forward.{{sfn|Semmens|1994|p=27}}
* September 8 - ''United States'' - [[1900 Galveston Hurricane]]: A Gulf and Inter State Railroad passenger train was destroyed by a hurricane on a journey from the [[Bolivar Peninsula]] to [[Beaumont, Texas]]. All 85 people on board were killed.{{sfn|Semmens|1994|p=27}}
* ''United States'' – The Lonesome Gap viaduct on the [[Knoxville, Cumberland Gap, and Louisville Railroad]] collapsed when a double-headed freight train drove over it, against standing orders that such trains were not to cross the viaduct.{{sfn|Trevena|1980|p=17}}

==1901==
* April 12 – ''United States'' – A head-end collision of a work train and a through freight train occurred near Pineville, Kentucky killing two.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1901-04-16/ed-1/seq-3/|title=Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, April 16, 1901, Image 3|last=Humanities|first=National Endowment for the|newspaper=Semi-Weekly Interior Journal|date=1901-04-16|access-date=2019-08-10|issn=1941-3009}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86069561/1901-04-19/ed-1/seq-3/|title=Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, April 19, 1901, Image 3|last=Humanities|first=National Endowment for the|journal=Mount Vernon Signal|date=1901-04-19|access-date=2019-08-11|issn=1941-2940}}</ref>
*May 26 - United States - “Electric cars racing for a switch while running in opposite directions, at the rate of {{convert|40|mph|kph}}, cost five lives in the afternoon by a terrific collision, in which over forty prominent people were injured, some fatally and others seriously. The lobby of the local post office filled with dead and wounded, hysterical women and children looking for relatives and friends, surgeons administering temporary relief and ambulances racing through the city, taking the wounded to hospitals, were the early intimation of the accident. The scene of the accident was at a point about {{convert|2|mi|km}} out of Greenbush, on the line of the Albany & Hudson railway. The point where the cars met on the single track was at a sharp curve, and so fast were both running and so sudden was the collision that the motormen never had time to put on the brakes before southbound car No. 22 had gone almost clean through the northbound car No. 17, and hung on the edge of a high bluff, with its load of shrieking, maimed humanity. One motorman was pinioned up against the smashed front of the southbound car, with both legs severed, and was killed instantly, while the other one lived but a few minutes.{{pb}}<!--

-->Fully 120 men, women and children formed a struggling, shrieking pyramid framed with blood, detached portions of human bodies and the wreckage of cars. Some of the more slightly injured of the men extricated themselves and began to pull people out of the rear ends of the two cars. Almost every one was taken out in this way, and nearly all were badly injured. With both motormen killed it was hard to get at the real cause of the accident, but it was pretty well determined that it was caused by an attempt of the south bound car to reach a second switch instead of waiting for the north bound car at the first siding.{{pb}}<!--

-->The cars weigh fifteen tons each and are the largest electric cars built, and so frightful was the crash that both cars were torn almost to splinters. Both cars were filled with Sunday pleasure seekers returning from the new recreation grounds that the railway had just opened."from the BROOKLYN EAGLE May 27, 1901.{{pb}}<!--

-->Sixteen months later tragedy struck again, and a young woman and a small boy were killed in a collision at Rossman's Station. Marjorie Hoysradt, 20, and Edward Doyle, 5, were among the "thousands of people" who had taken the railway's cars to enjoy a summer outing at Electric Park. According to ''The New York Times''  of August 2, 1902, cars were running at high speed to accommodate the crowds when the accident occurred.
*June 8 – ''United States'' – A double-header freight train collided with a stopped freight train carrying 12 tons of dynamite on the [[Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad]] in [[Vestal, New York]] killing five and injuring seven.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Smith|first1=Gerald|title=Vestal tracks site of death, destruction in 1901|url=http://www.pressconnects.com/story/news/connections/history/2015/07/08/history-vestal-train-explosion/29856295/|accessdate=30 November 2016|work=Press & Sun-Bulletin|date=8 July 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Hadsell|first1=Margaret|title=No. 10 Blown to Smithereens|url=http://www.wecoverthetowns.com/index.php/vestal-town-crier/news/218-no-10-blown-to-smithereens|accessdate=30 November 2016|work=Vestal Town Crier|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161201075630/http://www.wecoverthetowns.com/index.php/vestal-town-crier/news/218-no-10-blown-to-smithereens|archive-date=1 December 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* October 29 – ''United States'' – [[Linwood, North Carolina]]. The second of two northbound special trains carrying part of [[Buffalo Bill]]'s [[Wild West Show]] towards Danville collided head-on with a southbound [[Southern Railway (U.S.)|Southern Railway]] freight train carrying a load of fertilizer. The engineer of the southbound train had been ordered to yield to the northbound traffic, but did not understand that there were two trains, setting up the head-on collision with the second train. The resulting crash severely injured [[Annie Oakley]] and killed many famous show animals, domestic and exotic, including fully 110 horses.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ourstate.com/buffalo-bill-wild-west-show/|title=Buffalo Bill Derailed in Davidson County|first=Caron|last=Myers|date=September 28, 2011|website=Our State}}</ref>
* November 27 – ''United States'' – [[Adrian, Michigan]]. Two trains of the [[Wabash Railroad]] collided {{convert|1|mi|km}} east of [[Seneca, Michigan]]. The westbound train was carrying Italian immigrants going west from [[New York City|New York]]. Estimates of casualties ranged from twelve<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gendisasters.com/michigan/2035/seneca-mi-head-on-train-collision-nov-1901?page=0,2|title=Seneca, MI Head-On Train Collision, Nov 1901 &#124; GenDisasters ... Genealogy in Tragedy, Disasters, Fires, Floods Page 1|website=www.gendisasters.com}}</ref> to 23<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.michiganrailroads.com/RRHX/Wrecks/WrecksMenu.htm |title=Michigan Railroads |access-date=2016-09-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215084310/http://www.michiganrailroads.com/RRHX/Wrecks/WrecksMenu.htm |archive-date=2015-02-15 |url-status=dead }}</ref> to 50-80<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045366/1901-11-28/ed-1/seq-1/|title=The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, November 28, 1901, Image 1|first=National Endowment for the|last=Humanities|date=November 28, 1901|via=chroniclingamerica.loc.gov}}</ref> to 100 dead<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.michiganrailroads.com/RRHX/Wrecks/WrecksMenu.htm |title=New York Times Nov 27, 1901 GenDisasters  |access-date=September 26, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215084310/http://www.michiganrailroads.com/RRHX/Wrecks/WrecksMenu.htm |archive-date=February 15, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> with at least 50<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.michiganrailroads.com/RRHX/Wrecks/WrecksMenu.htm |title=New York Times Nov 27, 1901 GenDisasters |access-date=September 26, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215084310/http://www.michiganrailroads.com/RRHX/Wrecks/WrecksMenu.htm |archive-date=February 15, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> to 125 injured.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/pages/results/?state=&dateFilterType=yearRange&date1=1901&date2=1901&language=&ortext=&andtext=&phrasetext=&proxtext=Adrian+Ohio+&proxdistance=5&rows=20&searchType=advanced|title=Chronicling America &#124; Library of Congress|website=chroniclingamerica.loc.gov}}</ref> The unknown dead were buried in Adrian's Oakwood Cemetery; the gravesite was marked September 25, 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.toledoblade.com/local/2016/09/25/Sculpture-memorializes-1901-train-crash/stories/20160924212|title=Sculpture memorializes 1901 train crash|website=The Blade}}</ref>  
* December 6 – ''Germany'' – [[Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof]]. The luxury train Ostend-Vienna-Express, about 90 minutes late, reached the [[Frankfurt]] Terminus at about 5 a.m. The air brake failed due to a faulty valve which remained closed.<ref>Markus Meinold: ''Die Lokomotivführer der Preußischen Staatseisenbahn 1880 – 1914''. Hövelhof 2008. {{ISBN|978-3-937189-40-6}}, p. 129.</ref> The locomotive overran the buffer stop, shot across the head of the platform and crashed through the opposite wall behind which the restaurant for 1st- and 2nd-class passengers was situated. There it came to a stop in midst of the tables covered with white table cloths and set for breakfast. The photograph of this scene became a favorite in most publications on the history of the Frankfurt Central Station. Nobody was hurt in the accident. In this early morning hour not many people were around, and the carriages of the Ostend-Vienna-Express had separated from the locomotive and remained on the rails. After a short time they were on their way to Vienna again. Some of the sleeping passengers hadn't even noticed the incident.<ref>Markus Meinhold.</ref> The ''Ostend-Vienna-Express'' carried through-coaches between Ostend and the [[Orient Express]].
* December 22 – ''United Kingdom'' – Liverpool, [[Dingle railway station]]. The line of the [[Liverpool Overhead Railway]] (LOR) to Dingle railway station was worked by electrically powered trains. Access to this underground station was through a tunnel about half a mile (800&nbsp;m) long. On December 22, 1901 an engine of a train caught fire and the train stopped about 80 yards (73&nbsp;m) before reaching the station. Soon all the train was on fire as well as the station. Six people died. This was the first major accident caused by an electrically powered train.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/eventsummary.php?eventID=563|title=Accident at Dingle on 23rd December 1901 :: The Railways Archive|website=www.railwaysarchive.co.uk}}</ref>

==1902==
* January 8 – ''United States'' – [[New York City]]: A stopped [[New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad|New Haven]] express train from [[South Norwalk, Connecticut|South Norwalk]] was rear-ended in the [[Park Avenue Tunnel (railroad)|Park Avenue tunnel]] by a [[New York Central]] [[White Plains, New York|White Plains]] local, due to smoke and snow obscuring signals. Seventeen persons were killed and 36 injured, the worst rail accident in New York City history. The accident inspired the State Legislature to pass a law the next year prohibiting steam operation within the tunnels of New York City on the [[New York and Harlem Railroad|Park Avenue line]] south of the [[Harlem River]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nywestch/NewRoc1902/|title=1902 Park Avenue Tunnel Collision, NYC}}</ref>
* March 30 – ''[[South African Republic]]'' – [[Barberton rail crash]] – Between [[Barberton, Mpumalanga|Barberton]] and [[Kaapmuiden]], a passenger train ran away descending a gradient toward a sharp curve and a bridge over a gully where it derailed and one car fell into the gully killing at least 44 passengers.{{sfn|Semmens|1994|p=28}}
*August 2 - ''United States'' - ''Albany Southern Railway'' - A young woman and a small boy were killed in a collision at Rossman's Station (near Albany, NY). Marjorie Hoysradt, 20, and Edward Doyle, 5, were among the "thousands of people" who had taken the railway's cars to enjoy a summer outing at Electric Park (on Kinderhook Lake in Niverville, NY). According to ''The New York Times''  of August 2, 1902, cars were running at high speed to accommodate the crowds when the accident occurred.
* August 5 - ''United States'' - A ''[[Norfolk and Western Railway]]'' coal train fell though a trestle under repair near [[Peebles, Ohio]]. 1 killed and 4 injured.<ref>For a contemporary newspaper account see [https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015679/1902-08-06/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=08%2F01%2F1902&index=1&date2=08%2F12%2F1902&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=Foley+Robert&proxdistance=5&state=&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=Robert+Foley&phrasetext=&andtext=&dateFilterType=range&page=1 The Indianapolis journal. &#91;volume&#93;, August 06, 1902, Image 1] (The newspaper account also claimed 2 tramps were missing). For an expanded account of the accident see "Collapse at Shimer's Run" Ohio Historical Society Magazine "Timeline" January/February 1994.</ref>
* August 16 – ''Canada'' – A ''[[Canadian Pacific Railway]]'' westbound freight train ran into the tail end of a stopped freight train. This incident occurred about {{convert|200|yards}} east of the station depot at [[Maple Creek, Saskatchewan]]. The train crew members involved were unhurt but the body of a suspected hobo was found as the wreckage was cleared.<ref>Brandon Daily Sun, August 16, 1902, P1</ref>  
* September 1 – ''United States'' – A [[Southern Railway (U.S.)|Southern Railway]] train derailed at [[Berry, Alabama]], killing 21 people.{{sfn|Semmens|1994|p=28}}
* September 11 – ''British India'' – A mail train plunged into a river at [[Mangapatnam]] due to a bridge washout. At least 100 people were killed.{{sfn|Kichenside|1997|p=75}}<ref name=Times150902>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=London, Monday, September 15, 1902 |date=15 September 1902 |page=7 |issue=36873 |column=A-B }}</ref><!--The correct spelling of the author's name is KICHENSIDE-->
* September 27 – ''France'' – A signalman's error diverted a [[Chemins de Fer du Nord]] express to [[Cambrai]] into a siding at [[Arleux]]. Most of the train cars derailed; 20 people were killed and 41 injured.{{sfn|Semmens|1994|p=28}}
* December 6 – ''Canada'' – [[Nova Scotia]], Six persons were killed in a wreck on the [[Intercolonial Railway]], the Canadian Government railway, at noon near the station at [[Belmont, Nova Scotia|Belmont]], seventy miles (113&nbsp;km) from [[Halifax, Nova Scotia|Halifax]]. An express train for [[Montreal]] rolled down an embankment, completely wrecking the locomotive, the postal, express, and baggage cars and several passenger cars.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1902/12/07/archives/train-wreck-kills-six-canadian-pacific-express-rolls-down-an.html|title=TRAIN WRECK KILLS SIX; Canadian Pacific Express Rolls Down an Embankment.|work=The New York Times |date=December 7, 1902|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref>
* December 20 – ''United States'' – [[Byron, California]]. The southbound ''Stockton Flyer'' crashed into the rear of the disabled ''Los Angeles Owl'', killing 20 and injuring 25. Both trains had departed from [[Oakland, California|Oakland]]. Prominent California lawyer [[Frank Hamilton Short]] and journalist [[Chester Harvey Rowell]] were passengers on board the Owl. Neither was injured.<ref>{{cite news|title=18 Persons Dead|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1928&dat=19021220&id=j70gAAAAIBAJ&sjid=r2kFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1651,6827384|publisher=The Lewiston Daily Sun|date=December 22, 1902}}</ref>
*December 26 – ''Canada'' – [[Wanstead, Ontario]]. On the [[Grand Trunk Railway]] near [[Sarnia]], a westbound passenger express collided head-on with a freight train. Around thirty people were killed.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.petroliaheritage.com/wanstead.html|title=Petrolia - Canada's Victorian Oil Town|website=www.petroliaheritage.com}}</ref>

==1903==
* January 27 – ''United States'' – The engineer of the [[Central Railroad of New Jersey]] ''Reading Express'' was distracted by engine trouble and failed to see signals. At Graceland, [[Scotch Plains, New Jersey]], the train crashed into the rear of another passenger train that was slowed by a [[hot box]] killing 23.{{sfn|Semmens|1994|p=29}}
*[[File:Esmond train wreck Pullman car.jpg|thumb|Esmond Train Wreck]] January 28 – ''United States'' – '''[[Esmond Train Wreck]]''' – 14 people, including the engineers of both trains, were killed when the [[Benson, Arizona]]-bound ''Crescent City Express'' (No. 8) collided head-on at 3:30&nbsp;am with the [[Tucson, Arizona]]-bound ''Pacific Coast Express'' (No. 7) due to a communication error. A night operator did not deliver a second order to the conductor, which would have superseded the previous order for the ''Crescent City Express'' (No.8) to proceed to Vail Station. Had the second order been delivered, it would have allowed the ''Pacific Coast Express'' (No.7) to pass unscathed.<ref>"22 Dead; 45 Injured: The Estimated Casualties of the Southern Pacific Catastrophe Yesterday", ''Arizona Daily Star'', January 29, 1903</ref><ref>"Story of the Esmond Wreck Vividly Told", ''Arizona Daily Star'', February 1, 1903</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://homepage.mac.com/icafe/RitaRanch/TrainWreck.html |title=The Awful Catastrophe at Esmond |accessdate=2014-10-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628183411/http://homepage.mac.com/icafe/RitaRanch/TrainWreck.html |archive-date=2011-06-28 }}</ref>
* March 18 – ''Canada'' – Two [[Canadian Pacific Railway]] freight trains collided head-on near [[Etobicoke]] (Islington), Ontario.<ref>The Globe March 18, 1903 P.8</ref>  
* June 27 – ''Spain'' – A train on the line between [[Bilbao]] and [[Zaragoza]] derailed at [[San Asensio]] and fell into a river, killing 90 to 100 people and injuring 63.{{sfn|Semmens|1994|p=29}}
* July 7 – ''United States'' – Due to a misread train order, a passenger and a freight train on the [[Southern Railway (U.S.)|Southern Railway]] collided at [[Rockfish, Virginia]], killing 19 passengers and four crew members.{{sfn|Semmens|1994|p=29}}
* July 15 – ''United Kingdom'' – A passenger train derailed at [[Waterloo railway station (Merseyside)|Waterloo]], on the [[Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway]], due to excessive speed killing seven and injuring thirty.{{sfn|Trevena|1980|p=18}}
* July 27 – ''United Kingdom'' – '''[[Glasgow St Enoch rail accident]]''', Scotland: A train crashed into the buffers killing 16.
* August 1 – ''United Kingdom'' – A passenger train was run into by another train at {{rws|Preston}}, [[Lancashire]].{{sfn|Earnshaw|1990|p=8}}
* August 7 – ''United States'' – Two special trains carrying the [[Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus|Benjamin Wallace Circus]] collided at [[Durand, Michigan]], killing 22 people, two camels, and an elephant. The second train's driver had failed to notice a warning [[flare]] when the first train stopped, and his brakes were not properly charged.{{sfn|Semmens|1994|p=29}}
*[[File:COURONNE 1903 - 1.jpg|thumb|Paris Métro train fire]] August 10 – ''France'' – '''[[Paris Métro train fire]]''': electrical fire on the [[Paris Métro]] near [[Couronnes]] station killed 84. This led to the adoption of [[multiple-unit train control]] (with a low-voltage control circuit) and a second, independent power supply for station lighting.
* August 23 – ''United States'' – '''[[Little Falls Gulf Curve crash of 1903]]''', [[Little Falls, New York]]: Westbound [[New York Central]] special newspaper train derailed due to excessive speed on a sharp curve killing the engine crew.
*[[File:Old 97 wreck at Stillhouse Trestle in Virginia - 1903 (2).jpg|thumb|200px|The aftermath of the [[Wreck of the Old 97]]. (September 27, 1903)]] September 27 – ''United States'' – '''[[Wreck of the Old 97]]''', [[Danville, Virginia]]: Southbound [[Southern Railway (US)|Southern Railway]] [[passenger train]] No. 97, en route from [[Monroe, Virginia]] to [[Spencer, North Carolina]], derailed at Stillhouse Trestle near Danville and plunged into the ravine below. Eleven are killed including the engine crew and a number of Railway Post Office clerks in the [[railway post office|mail car]] right behind the tender. The wreck inspired a famous ballad, ''The Wreck of the Old 97'', the 1920s recording of which by country singer [[Vernon Dalhart]] is sometimes cited as the American recording industry's first million-seller.
* October 22 – ''United Kingdom'' – A [[Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway]] express passenger train collided with a light engine at {{rws|Sowerby Bridge}}, [[West Riding of Yorkshire|Yorkshire]] due to a signalman's error killing one.{{sfn|Hall|1990|p=65}}
* October 23 – ''United States'' – Hebron, Indiana. A head-on collision; one of the worst wrecks in the history of the [[Pennsylvania Railroad]].{{citation needed|date=October 2017}}
*[[File:Purdue Wreck.jpg|thumb|200px| The first coach of the Big Four special, where the Purdue football team was seated, lies crushed between the second coach and a coal tender. (October 31, 1903)]] October 31 – ''United States'' – The '''[[Purdue Wreck]]''', [[Indianapolis, Indiana]]: A [[Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis Railroad]] football special carrying the [[Purdue University]] football team and fans to the annual [[Indiana University]] / Purdue University football game collided with a coal train killing seventeen passengers in the first coach, including fourteen members of the football team.
* November 2 - ''United States'' - Two cars of Nitroglycerin in [[Crestline, Ohio]]'s trainyard explode, leaving a crater 20 feet (6.1&nbsp;m) wide and 40 feet (12.2&nbsp;m) long, massive damage to the yard and  45 other cars rendered unusable.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19031102.2.87&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-------- | title=San Francisco Call 2 November 1903 — California Digital Newspaper Collection }}</ref>
* November 11 - ''Canada'' - a [[Canadian Pacific Railway]] freight train collided head-on with another freight train at [[Indian Head, Saskatchewan]] damaging both trains. The engineer was charged with "driving an engine while in a state of intoxication" and referred to the [[Supreme Court of Canada]].<ref>Brandon Daily Sun, November 20, 1903. P.4</ref>
* November 14 – ''United States'' – The crew of a broken-down train at [[Kentwood, Louisiana]] failed to protect it and the following train ran into it, killing 32 people are injuring many more.{{sfn|Kichenside|1997|p=27}}
* December 2 – ''United States'' - Two trains collided in the town of [[Greenwood, Delaware]] during a blinding snowstorm, one loaded with cars of [[dynamite]] and [[naphtha]], a petroleum liquid used to make lighter fluid. The result was a violent explosion that rained fire down upon the town, killing two people and injuring dozens, while leveling every building in the area of the wreck and setting several fires including nine houses, the schoolhouse, a hotel, and numerous freight cars. Reports were that every pane of glass in every building in the town broke. The explosion was felt across [[Sussex County, Delaware|Sussex]], [[Kent County, Delaware|Kent]], and [[Caroline County, Maryland|Caroline]] counties, but help was not quick to arrive as there was no local Fire Company and all phone and telegraph lines in the town had been severed by the explosion. Eventually crews from Seaford Volunteer Fire Department and Harrington Fire Company arrived the next day to find the explosion had cut a hole big enough to bury the freight engine, homes literally turned on their sides from the blast, and much of the town destroyed, burned, or damaged. Over a week later, the [[Washington Post]] reported that it was not dynamite, but a secret military explosive that was loaded on the train and had caused the explosion, as investigators found the damage to be far too great for the reported contents of the train. The freight car in question had been loaded by the government and was en route to a facility in [[Newport News, Virginia]] containing, "a quantity of new explosive, a terrible instrument of death". <!--It might have been TNT, whose explosive properties had only recently been discovered. Can anyone confirm this?-->
* December 23 – ''United States'' – '''[[Connellsville train wreck]]''' near [[Connellsville, Pennsylvania]] killed 66 people as the [[Baltimore and Ohio Railroad]]'s ''Duquesne Limited'' ran into timber dropped from a freight train.
* December 23 – ''United Kingdom'' – A [[Hull and Barnsley Railway]] passenger train collided with wagons on the line at Locomotive Junction, Springhead, [[Northumberland]].{{sfn|Hoole|1983|p=19}}

== 1904 ==
* February 19 - ''United States'' - Two Southern Pacific trains collide at [[Jackson, Utah]]. A carload of dynamite explodes, wrecking everything within a half-mile (800&nbsp;m) radius, including the majority of lives within the town of 45.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85058130/1904-02-20/ed-1/seq-2/|title=The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, February 20, 1904, Last Edition, Image 2|first=National Endowment for the|last=Humanities|date=February 20, 1904|access-date=July 31, 2022|via=chroniclingamerica.loc.gov}}</ref>
* February 27 - ''United States'' - Two trains collide at Port Richmond, California. 2 people killed and 7 injured.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1904-02-29/ed-1/seq-5/|title=The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, February 29, 1904, Image 5|first=National Endowment for the|last=Humanities|date=February 29, 1904|pages=5|access-date=July 31, 2022|via=chroniclingamerica.loc.gov}}</ref>
* March – ''United Kingdom'' – A [[South Eastern and Chatham Railway]] passenger train derailed at {{rws|Gomshall}}, [[Surrey]].{{sfn|Trevena|1980|p=19}}
* July 3 – ''United States'' – A [[Wabash Railroad]] train derailed on a sabotaged [[railroad switch|switch]] at [[Litchfield, Illinois]] killing twenty-four.{{sfn|Semmens|1994|p=30}}
* July 18 - ''United States'' - An [[Erie Railroad]] train that stopped for water had a rear collision with another train on a curve at [[Greenwood Lake, New York]], killing sixteen and injuring sixty.<ref name=ErieGreenwood>[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1904-07-18/ed-1/seq-3/ THE HORRORS OF A TRAIN WRECK SHOWN IN PICTURES], in ''[[The Tacoma Times]]''; published July 18, 1904; p. 3; via [[Chronicling America]]</ref>
* August 7 – ''United States'' – '''[[Eden Train Wreck]]''', near Eden Station north of [[Pueblo, Colorado]]. A train was caught in bridge [[washaway]], killing 89. Twenty-two additional passengers were listed as missing.
* August 14 – ''United States'' – [[Shelby County, Ohio]]. Two electric trains collided killing four and injuring thirty.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ohshelby.ancestralsites.com/pics0049.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707135440/http://ohshelby.ancestralsites.com/pics0049.html|url-status=dead|title=Shelby County, OHio|archivedate=July 7, 2011}}</ref>
* August 31 – ''Canada'' – [[Richmond, Quebec]], a [[head-on collision]] between a [[Grand Trunk Railway]] special train from [[Montreal]] to [[Sherbrooke]], and Passenger Train No. 5 from [[Island Pond, Vermont]] killed nine including Member of Parliament [[Jean Baptiste Blanchet]], and injured 23.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lecourrier.qc.ca/edition/2007-04-25/607ch3q.html |title=Page introuvable - le Courrier de Saint-Hyacinthe |access-date=2011-02-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120904024305/http://www.lecourrier.qc.ca/edition/2007-04-25/607ch3q.html |archive-date=2012-09-04 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.gendisasters.com/train-wrecks-accidents/15493/richmond-qb-train-collision-sep-1904 |title=Richmond, QB Train Collision, Sep 1904 &#124; GenDisasters ... Genealogy in Tragedy, Disasters, Fires, Floods |access-date=2011-02-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120918232326/http://www3.gendisasters.com/train-wrecks-accidents/15493/richmond-qb-train-collision-sep-1904 |archive-date=2012-09-18 |url-status=live }}</ref>
[[File:NewMarketTrainWreck.jpg|right|thumb|New Market train Wreck]]
* September 24 – ''United States'' – '''[[New Market train wreck]]''', [[Jefferson County, Tennessee]], two [[Southern Railway (US)|Southern Railway]] passenger trains, the ''Carolina Special'' and Local train No. 15, collided [[Head-on collision|head-on]] near [[New Market, Tennessee]] when the crew of the three-car local failed to take the siding to allow the ''Carolina Special'' to pass. The impact knocked the boilers off both locomotives and the engine on the local was catapulted onto the first three wooden coaches of the ''Special''. The impact caused the boilers of both locomotives to explode and the cars of the local passenger train to telescope. At the time, it was the worst wreck of its kind to ever occur in North America. Between 56 and 113 were killed.
* October 10 – ''United States'' – [[Warrensburg, Missouri]], an eastbound [[Missouri Pacific Railroad]] passenger train, en route to the [[Louisiana Purchase Exposition|St. Louis World's Fair]], collided head-on with a freight train killing twenty-seven and injuring thirty.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.gendisasters.com/missouri/7463/warrensburg-mo-train-wreck-oct-1904 |title=Gendisasters Warrensburg MO Train Wreck Oct 1904 |access-date=2012-04-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120815174506/http://www3.gendisasters.com/missouri/7463/warrensburg-mo-train-wreck-oct-1904 |archive-date=2012-08-15 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  December 23 – ''United Kingdom'' – [[Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire]], England. The 2:45&nbsp;a.m. [[Great Central Railway]] express newspaper train from [[Marylebone railway station|London Marylebone]] to [[Manchester Central railway station|Manchester]] derailed as it approached [[Aylesbury railway station]] from the south, approximately at the location of the junction with the [[Great Western Railway]] branch from [[Princes Risborough railway station|Princes Risborough]]. Its speed carried the wreckage along the platforms of the station, and four of those on board the train, including the driver and fireman of the engine, and another driver and fireman travelling as passengers back to their home depot were killed. Two others, both railway staff, were seriously injured. A southbound train, from Manchester, then collided with the wreckage at low-speed causing damage to rolling stock but no further casualties.<ref>http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/BoT_Aylesbury1904.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref>
* ''United Kingdom'' – A [[Great Western Railway]] passenger train derailed at Loughor Bridge, [[Glamorgan]] killing five and injuring eighteen. Excessive speed was a major contributory factor.{{sfn|Trevena|1981|p=23}}

==1905==
* January 19 – ''United Kingdom'' – A [[Midland Railway]] express passenger train overran signals and collided with the rear or another train at {{rws|Cudworth}}, [[West Riding of Yorkshire|Yorkshire]] killing seven people.{{sfn|Earnshaw|1990|p=9}}
* March 10 – ''United Kingdom'' – A mixed train on the {{RailGauge|3ft}}-gauge [[Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway]] derailed due to a combination of a faulty locomotive and faulty track.{{sfn|Earnshaw|1989|p=5}}
* April 21 – ''United Kingdom'' – A [[London & North Western Railway]] passenger train collided with a train of carriages being shunted at {{rws|Huddersfield}} killing two people. The train being shunted had passed a danger signal.{{sfn|Earnshaw|1989|p=6}}
* May 11 – ''United States'' – The engineer of a [[Pennsylvania Railroad]] freight train stopping at [[Harrisburg, Pennsylvania]] applied the brakes too abruptly causing the unbraked cars at the rear to derail the ones in front of them, fouling an adjacent track where they were struck by the ''Cincinnati Express''. The derailed cars contained {{convert|50,000|lb|kg}} of [[dynamite]] which exploded killing twenty passengers and three railwaymen.{{sfn|Semmens|1994|p=32}}
* June 17 – ''United States'' – [[Patapsco, Carroll County, Maryland]]: Two trains collided head-on on the [[Western Maryland Railroad]] due to a failure to obey train orders killing 26.{{sfn|Semmens|1994|p=32}}
* June 21 - ''United States'' - [[20th Century Limited derailment]] - The [[New York Central Railroad]]'s flagship passenger train, the ''[[20th Century Limited]]'', is [[20th Century Limited derailment|derailed]] in an apparent act of [[Rail sabotage|sabotage]] in [[Mentor, Ohio]], killing 21.
*[[File:(New York, New Haven and Hartford Locomotive No. 321 crash through roundhouse) (8880203918).jpg|thumb|New York, New Haven and Hartford Locomotive No. 321 crash July 8, 1905]] July 8 - ''United States''- New York, New Haven and Hartford Locomotive No. 321 crashed through roundhouse, Hartford CT.
*[[File:Hall Road railway disaster.jpg|thumb|Hall Road rail accident]] July 27 – ''United Kingdom'' – The '''[[Hall Road rail accident]]''', on the [[Liverpool]], [[Lancashire]]-to-Southport line, killed 21.
* August 7 – ''Germany'' – between [[Spremberg]] and [[Schleife]] on ([[Berlin-Görlitz railway]]), a head-on crash, caused by an error by a dispatcher, killed 19 and seriously injured 40.<ref>{{cite book|first=Hans-Joachim|last= Ritzau |author2=Hörstel, Jürgen |author3=Wolski, Thomas |title= Schatten der Eisenbahngeschichte (Shadow on railway history)|year= 1997 |isbn=978-3-921304-36-5|page=117 |publisher= Ritzau, Verlag Zeit und Eisenbahn |language=de}}</ref>
* August 17 – ''United States'' – An [[Atlantic Coast Line Railroad|Atlantic Coast Line]] excursion train carrying six cars of black passengers from [[Kinston, North Carolina]], to [[Norfolk, Virginia]], ran through an open drawbridge near Bruce Station, {{convert|6|mi|km|sigfig=1|abbr=on}} from Norfolk. The locomotive and first car were submerged in {{convert|12|ft|m|abbr=on}} of water, and two more cars left the track; at least three people were killed, and a total of 20 to 30 were killed or injured, including the bridge tender.<ref>{{cite news| periodical=Globe and Mail| location=Toronto| page=1| 
title=Train Runs into River: Many Negroes Killed or Injured in Virginia: The Draw Was Left Open and Three Coaches Follow the Engine Into the Abyss—Victims Are Nearly All Colored.| date=1905-08-18}}</ref>
*[[File:Witham.jpg|thumb|Witham rail crash]] September 1 – ''United Kingdom'' – The '''[[Witham rail crash]]''' in [[Essex]] killed 11 and injured 71.
*[[File:1905 New-York Subway-Accident.jpg|thumb|Beginning cleanup after the Ninth Avenue derailment; picture from the German ''Elektrotechnische Zeitschrift'' of November 2, 1905]] September 11 – ''United States'' – '''[[Ninth Avenue derailment]]''', [[Manhattan]], [[New York (state)|New York]]. A southbound train on the [[IRT Ninth Avenue Line]] was erroneously switched onto the 53rd Street curve to the [[IRT Sixth Avenue Line|Sixth Avenue line]] killing 13 and seriously injuring 48.
* October 6 – ''Russia'' – At [[Rostov, Yaroslavl Oblast|Rostov]], a derailment of the mail train to [[Vladivostok]] killed 27 people and injured 35.{{sfn|Semmens|1994|p=32}}
* October 24 – ''United Kingdom'' – a [[North Eastern Railway (United Kingdom)|North Eastern Railway]] double-headed freight train derailed at [[Winston, County Durham]] after [[platelayer]]s had removed a rail before it passed.{{sfn|Trevena|1981|p=2}}
* November 2 – ''United States'' – '''[[Baker Bridge train wreck]]''' in [[Lincoln, Massachusetts]]. The collision of an express train into a stopped local train killed 17.<ref>{{cite news |title=Engineer Lyons Now Under Surveillance |work=The Boston Daily Globe |date=November 28, 1905}}</ref>
* December 6 – ''United Kingdom'' – '''[[Charing Cross roof collapse]]''' – The roof of [[Charing Cross railway station|Charing Cross]] station in [[London]] collapsed, killing six people.
* December 31 – ''Russia'' – A collision at [[Lebedyn]] station (now in [[Ukraine]]) killed 30 people.{{sfn|Semmens|1994|p=33}}
* December 31 – ''Russia'' – Two military trains collided between Znamenska and Trepovka killing twenty soldiers.{{sfn|Semmens|1994|p=33}}

==1906==
* March 16 – ''United States'' – Two passenger trains collided head-on near Adobe Station, between [[Portland, Colorado|Portland]] and [[Florence, Colorado]], on the [[Denver & Rio Grande Railroad]], due to a train dispatcher's error; thirty-four people were killed.{{sfn|Kichenside|1997|pp=47–48}}
* April 6 – ''United Kingdom'' – A passenger train derailed and fouled the adjacent line at {{rws|Kirtlebridge}}, [[Dumfriesshire]]. The wreckage was hit by another passenger train killing one and injuring several others.{{sfn|Earnshaw|1989|p=7}}
* June 26 – ''United States'' – [[Carson Hill, California]]: A four-car freight train on the [[Sierra Railroad|Sierra Railway]]'s Angel's Branch carrying {{convert|15|ST|MT}} of [[dynamite]] exploded. The blast was reportedly heard in [[Stockton, California]], {{convert|80|miles}} to the east and a wheel from the boxcar carrying the dynamite was found embedded in the roof of a shed {{convert|5|miles}} away; two crewmen were killed.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V29r1gRypnw|title=Railway to Heaven ~ Part Three|date=23 October 2013 |via=www.youtube.com}}</ref> 
[[File:Railway Disaster at Salisbury, 1st July, 1906.png|thumb|Salisbury train crash 1906]]
* June 30 – ''United Kingdom'' – '''[[1906 Salisbury rail crash|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 – ''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.<ref>''The New York Times'', Published August 14, 1906, "Fast Train Kills 4 Boys"</ref>
*September 8 – ''United States'' – [[Woodlands, West Virginia]] Two Trains collusion on bridge; 2 killed and 5 injured.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1906-09-09/ed-1/seq-1/|title=Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, September 09, 1906, Image 1|first=National Endowment for the|last=Humanities|date=September 9, 1906|via=chroniclingamerica.loc.gov}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=jsiBBWsw&id=D25BFD8F59ACCFF1212723181B767E300502817E&thid=OIP.jsiBBWswlyHig5uNY4ePGAHaD6&mediaurl=https://wvncrails.weebly.com/uploads/5/8/1/4/5814082/train-wreck-at-woodland-1906_1_orig.jpg&exph=419&expw=792&q=Guyandotte+River+Train+Wreck&simid=608010400788513480&ck=C763C97CA2B11C59E441458B7ABC530F&selectedIndex=5&ajaxhist=0|title=Guyandotte River Train Wreck - Bing|website=www.bing.com}}</ref>
* September 18 – ''United States'' – [[Dover, Oklahoma|Dover]], [[Oklahoma Territory]]: A bridge across the [[Cimarron River (Arkansas River)|Cimarron River]] collapsed beneath a [[Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad|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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gendisasters.com/oklahoma/13081/dover-ok-train-wreck-sept-1906|title=Dover, OK Train Wreck, Sept 1906 &#124; GenDisasters ... Genealogy in Tragedy, Disasters, Fires, Floods|website=www.gendisasters.com|access-date=2020-06-03|archive-date=2020-06-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200603220044/http://www.gendisasters.com/oklahoma/13081/dover-ok-train-wreck-sept-1906|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Kite, Steven |url=http://www.library.okstate.edu/scua/exhibit/oaa/20sep00.htm |title=Corporate Greed Leads to Death in Oklahoma Territory |work=Oklahoma Audio Almanac |publisher=Oklahoma State University Library |date=September 20, 2000 |accessdate=May 18, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100604162425/http://www.library.okstate.edu/scua/exhibit/oaa/20sep00.htm |archive-date=June 4, 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/D/DO011.html |title=Dover |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture |publisher=Oklahoma Historical Society |accessdate=May 18, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100728153921/http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/D/DO011.html |archive-date=July 28, 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Goins| first1=Charles Robert| last2=Goble |first2=Danney| title=Historical Atlas of Oklahoma |page=119 |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|isbn=978-0-8061-3482-6|year=2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.doversociety.org/DofD-Oklahoma.html |last=Sencicle |first=Lorraine |title=Dover Oklahoma |date=January 2008 |work=The Daughters of Dover: Dover around the world |location=Dover, England |publisher=The Dover Society |accessdate=May 22, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100921112956/http://doversociety.org/DofD-Oklahoma.html |archive-date=September 21, 2010 }}</ref>
[[File:Grantham Railway Disaster.png|thumb|September 19, 1906 Grantham rail accident]]
*  September 19 – ''United Kingdom'' – '''[[Grantham rail accident]]''', [[Grantham]], England: An evening sleeping-car and mail train from [[London]] to [[Edinburgh]] that should have stopped at Grantham, failed to do so; no definite reason was ever established. The points beyond the station had not yet been set, and the train ran onto a sharp curve and derailed, killing 14 people.
[[File:1906AtlanticCityTrainWreck.jpg|thumb|October 28, 1906 Atlantic City train crash]]
* October 28 – ''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&nbsp;km/h), derailed on a draw (swing) bridge over a deep tidal channel. The train bumped along the ties for {{convert|150|ft|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 – ''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.{{sfn|Semmens|1994|pp=34–35}}
* November 24 – ''United Kingdom'' – A [[North Eastern Railway (UK)|North Eastern Railway]] freight train runs into the rear of another at [[Ulleskelf]], [[East Riding of Yorkshire|Yorkshire]] because its driver was racing a [[Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway]] express passenger train on an adjacent line and not keeping a lookout for his signals.{{sfn|Hoole|1982|p=14}}
* December 28 – ''United Kingdom'' – '''[[Elliot Junction rail accident]]''', Scotland: 22 killed when an express train rear-ended a local service in bad weather.
* December 30 – ''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 (Washington, D.C.)|Fort Totten]]) Station along the B&O Metropolitan Branch, telescoping the rear cars and taking the lives of fifty-three passengers.

== 1907 ==
* January 2 - ''United States'' - Livingston, Montana, at Coal Spur, at 2:30&nbsp;a.m., Northern Pacific Railway Co Engineer James Caruso and Conductor John Storrs were instantly killed in a two-train collision.<ref>{{cite news |title=Livingston Enterprise |date=January 2, 1907 |pages=1}}</ref>
* January 2 – ''United States'' – At [[Volland, Kansas]], <!-- Semmens says "Velland", but there is no such place in Kansas and Volland is on the Rock Island line --> a [[Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad|Rock Island Railroad]] operator, who obtained his position assisting the dispatcher by falsifying his age and experience, failed to ensure that the westbound ''California Fast Mail'', which was waiting for an eastbound train, received an order to wait for a second one. It departed and collided with the second train. Thirty passengers on the ''Mail'' were killed, as well as a tramp riding the roof of the eastbound train.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gendisasters.com/kansas/4191/volland,-ks-trains-collide-head-,-jan-1907|title=Volland, KS Trains Collide Head-On, Jan 1907 &#124; GenDisasters ... Genealogy in Tragedy, Disasters, Fires, Floods|website=www.gendisasters.com}}</ref>{{sfn|Semmens|1994|p=36}}
*  January 16 – ''United Kingdom'' – Thingley Junction, [[Chippenham]]. A head-on collision between two [[Great Western Railway]] locomotives, River class 2–4–0 No. 70 "Dart" and [[GWR 2301 Class|Dean Goods]] No 2448 badly damaged both engines; both were unsalvageable and cut up on site.<ref>Robertson, Kevin, "Odd Corners of the G.W.R.", The History Press, Stroud, England, 2010, {{ISBN|978-0-7509-3458-9}}, page 133</ref>
* February 16 – ''United States'' – A train on the newly-electrified [[New York Central Railroad]] [[Harlem Division]] rounded a curve and jumped the tracks at [[Woodlawn (NYC station)|Woodlawn Station]], resulting in 20 deaths and 150 injuries. The accident was attributed to a design flaw in the new electric engines.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/grandcentral-woodlawn/|title=The Woodlawn Crash, 1907|website=pbs.org|publisher=[[American Experience]], [[WGBH-TV|WGBH/PBS, Boston]]|access-date= }}</ref>
* March 12 - ''United States'' - A [[Chesapeake and Ohio Railway]] train rear-ended the caboose of another train in the New River Gorge near [[Sewell, West Virginia]] at 3:20&nbsp;a.m., killing a conductor and injuring a brakeman.<ref name=JHMiller>{{cite book|last=Miller|first=James Henry|title=History of Summers County from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time|publisher=J.H. Miller|date=1908|location=Summers County, West Virginia|pages=838|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vz8VAAAAYAAJ|isbn=|access-date=November 24, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://wvhistoryonview.org/catalog/015284|title=Train Wreck of the 'Fast Flying Virginian' at Wiggins, Summers County, W. Va.|date=|website=wvhistoryonview.org|publisher=West Virginia & Regional History Center, [[West Virginia University]]|access-date=November 24, 2021}}</ref>
* March 12 - ''United States'' - Just after 9 a.m. on the same morning as the previous accident, the Chesapeake and Ohio's ''[[Fast Flying Virginian]]'' passenger train was westbound from [[Washington, D.C.]], when it hit a small rockslide just east of [[Hinton, West Virginia]]. The engine and tender overturned fatally scalding the engineer and a fireman. No passengers were injured.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gendisasters.com/west-virginia/9647/hinton-wv-train-crashes-landslide-mar-1907|title=F.F.V. Train Crashed into Landslide near Hinton|date=March 12, 1907|website=gendisasters.com|publisher=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=November 24, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cfm-fmh.org/1907-train-wreck|last=Long|first=Roy C.|title=F.F.V. Train No. 3 Wrecks at Powley's Creek|website=cfm-fmh.org|publisher=Hinton News/Campbell-Flannagan-Murrell House Museum|date=November 24, 2021}}</ref><ref name=JHMiller />
[[File:Felling derailment 2007.jpg|thumb|Aftermath of Felling derailment. (March 26, 1907)]]
* March 26 – ''United Kingdom'' – A passenger train derailed on buckled track at [[Felling, Tyne and Wear|Felling]], [[County Durham]]. The signalman reportedly had been warned of the buckle by a member of the public but refused to stop the trains over the affected lines. Two people were killed and six seriously injured.{{sfn|Hoole|1982|p=15}}
* March 28 – ''United States '' – The [[Southern Pacific Transportation Company|Southern Pacific Railroad]] train, the ''Sunset'', running nine to ten hours late, coming downgrade from [[San Timoteo Canyon]] at {{convert|60|mph|kph}} hits a "misplaced [[railroad switch|switch]]" at [[Colton, California]], and smashes into a ditch at the east end of the yard. Nine of 14 cars are demolished, killing 24 passengers and two crew. This will remain Southern California's worst rail accident in terms of deaths until the Santa Fe [[Redondo Junction train wreck]] in January 1956.<ref>Staff, “Records Show L.A. Death Toll Tops Colton Crash,” The San Bernardino Daily Sun, San Bernardino, California, Wednesday 25 January 1956, Volume LXII, Number 126, page 2.</ref>{{sfn|Semmens|1994|p=37}}
* April 14 – ''United States'' – '''[[Blossvale crash of 1907]]''' – [[Annsville, New York]]. A two-steam-engine-sixty-car freight train derailed killing one fireman.<ref>{{cite magazine |date=August 1907|title=Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen's Magazine |location=Indianapolis, Indiana |publisher=Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen }}</ref>
* May 11 – ''United States'' – A [[Southern Pacific Transportation Company|Southern Pacific Railroad]] special excursion train carrying [[Shriners]] from [[Buffalo, New York]] derailed approximately {{convert|65|mi}} north of [[Santa Barbara, California]] between Point Concepcion the mouth of the [[Santa Ynez River]] killing 32 people and injuring many others.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.independent.com/news/2013/jul/02/1907-train-wreck/ |title=Twenty-seven are dead in Honda wreck |work=Santa Barbara Independent |date=July 2, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Nineteen Are Killed in Coast Train Wreck|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19670948/oakland_tribune/|accessdate=April 29, 2018|work=Oakland Tribure|date=May 12, 1907|page=1|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}} {{free access}}</ref>
* May 11 - ''United States'' - A [[Santa Fe Railroad]] passenger train derailed {{convert|1|mi|km}} west of [[Joseph City, Arizona]] due to failure of a baggage car truck that was not sufficiently sized for the speed of the train. Several people were injured.<ref>{{cite news|title=Californians Injured in Arizona Wreck|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19669986/santa_cruz_weekly_sentinel/|accessdate=April 29, 2018|work=Sant Criz Weekly Sentinel|date=May 11, 1907|page=14|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}  {{free access}}</ref>
*May 21 - ''United States'' - [[New York Central Railroad]] passenger train collided with a derailed Buffalo and Cleveland special freight train, just outside of [[Little Falls (city), New York|Little Falls, NY]]. One man died, two were critically injured (one of whom later died) and three more people were injured.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1907/05/22/issue.html|title=TimesMachine: Wednesday May 22, 1907 - NYTimes.com|website=timesmachine.nytimes.com|language=en|access-date=2019-05-27}}</ref><ref>"It was a bad wreck", Little Falls Journal and Courier, May 28, 1907</ref><ref>"Mr Mahar died from injuries", Utica Herald, June 17, 1907</ref><ref>"One Man Killed and Five Injured", Utica Herald Dispatch, May 21, 1907 (front page)</ref>
* July 20 – ''United States'' – A freight train and passenger train on the [[Pere Marquette Railway]] collided head-on near [[Salem, Michigan]], because the freight train crew misinterpreted the intent of a badly written train order. Thirty people were killed.{{sfn|Kichenside|1997|p=48}}{{sfn|Semmens|1994|p=37}}
*August 4 – ''France'' – A bridge at [[Les Ponts-de-Cé]] <!-- Semmens gives it as just "Pont-de-Cé" --> collapsed under a [[Chemins de fer de l'État]] train running from [[Angers]] to [[Poitiers]]. The locomotive, tender, and two cars fell into the [[Loire]]; 27 people were killed and 15 injured.{{sfn|Semmens|1994|p=37}}
*August 28 – ''United Kingdom'' – A [[North Eastern Railway (United Kingdom)|North Eastern Railway]] freight train [[signal passed at danger|overran signals]] and derailed at {{rws|Goswick}}, [[Northumberland]] killing two and seriously injuring one.{{sfn|Trevena|1981|p=25}}
* September 3 – ''Canada'' – Horseshoe Curve Wreck on the [[Canadian Pacific Railway]] – Between [[Cardwell, Ontario|Cardwell]] and [[Caledon, Ontario]]. Seven people were killed and 114 injured (out of about 600) in the wreck, which was caused by high speed.<ref>{{Cite web|title=7 dead, 115 injured: Revisiting how major 'Horseshoe Curve' train crash gave birth to Orangeville hospital|url=https://www.orangeville.com/community-story/9584635-7-dead-115-injured-revisiting-how-major-horseshoe-curve-train-crash-gave-birth-to-orangeville-hospital/|access-date=2021-03-18|website=Orangeville.com|date=7 September 2019 |language=en-CA}}</ref>
* September 15 – ''United States'' – On the [[Boston and Maine Corporation|Boston and Maine Railroad]], northbound freight train 267 received a train order referring to southbound passenger train 34 instead of train 30, the Quebec-to-Boston Express, which was 20 minutes ahead of it and was heavily loaded with passengers returning from the [[Sherbrooke]] Fair. Consequently, trains 267 and 30 collided at 4:26&nbsp;a.m. on a foggy Sunday morning, {{convert|4|mi|km}} north of Canaan station; 25 or 26 people were killed and about 40 injured.{{sfn|Kichenside|1997|p=48}}{{sfn|Semmens|1994|pp=37–38}}
* September 19 – ''Mexico'' – [[Encarnación de Díaz|Encarnación]]: an express passenger train for [[El Paso, Texas]], collided with a freight train that should have waited for it; about 63 people were killed and 43 injured. Reportedly, the engineer of the freight fled home to the United States, was arrested, and admitted responsibility.{{sfn|Semmens|1994|p=38}}
* September 28 – ''United Kingdom'' – The '''[[Newport rail accident]]''' in [[Newport, Wales|Newport]], Wales killed one person.
[[File:Railway accident at Shrewsbury in 1907 02.png|thumb|Shrewsbury train accident October 1907]]
* October 15 – ''United Kingdom'' – '''[[Shrewsbury rail accident]]''', [[Shrewsbury]], England: An evening sleeping-car and mail train from [[Manchester]] to the west of England derailed on a sharp curve, probably due to driver error, killing 18.
* October 26 – ''United Kingdom'' – At [[West Hampstead tube station|West Hampstead station]] on the [[Metropolitan Railway]] in [[London]], the signalman thought a train had left and overrode the interlocking so that he could accept the following train. In fact, the first train was still standing at the platform, concealed by a thick fog. Both trains were electric multiple units and when they collided the leading car of the second train telescoped into the rear car of the first. Three people were killed and eleven seriously injured.<ref>{{cite book| title=London's Metropolitan Railway| author=Alan A. Jackson| year=1986| page=189| isbn=0-7153-8839-8| publisher=David & Charles}}</ref>
* November 25 – ''Spain'' – An express to [[Valencia]] derailed just before a bridge between [[Cambrils]] and [[L'Hospitalet de l'Infant|Hospitalet]], and most of the train fell into a river. Of about 70 to 90 people on board, at least 20 were killed and all but two of the rest were injured.{{sfn|Semmens|1994|p=38}}
* December 25 – ''India'' – Two passenger trains collided killing 22 people due to a stationmaster's error with a train order. The source gives the location only as "North-Western State".{{sfn|Semmens|1994|p=38}}

==1908==
* January 4 – ''Canada'' – A broken rail caused the derailment of the eastbound express passenger train near [[Biscotasing, Ontario]] on the Lake Superior Division of the ''[[Canadian Pacific Railway]]'' killing two and injuring many.<ref>''Brandon Daily Sun'', January 4, 1908, P2</ref> 
* February 2 – ''United Kingdom'' – The driver of a [[Great Central Railway]] train knocked himself and his fireman out when he sneezed. The train derailed due to excessive speed at {{rws|Ryhill}}, [[West Riding of Yorkshire|Yorkshire]].{{sfn|Earnshaw|1993|p=5}}
[[File:Railway Accident, Sunshine, Victoria, Apr 1908.jpg|thumb|Railway Accident, Sunshine, Victoria, Apr 1908]]
* April 20 – ''Australia'' – '''[[Sunshine train disaster]]''', [[Melbourne]]: Rear-end collision due to heavy fog, it killed 44 and injured around 400. It would be Australia's deadliest train disaster for over 50 years until it was eclipsed by the [[Granville train disaster]] which killed 84 on January 18, 1977.
* April 25 – ''Mexico'' – A train carrying pilgrims from the [[Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe|shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe]] <!-- I assume this is the intent. Semmens actually says "the shrine at Guadeloupe". --> collided at Gargantua siding, near [[Maltrata]] killing 28.{{sfn|Semmens|1994|p=38}}
* May 21 – ''Belgium'' – An express train was diverted into a bay platform occupied by a passenger train at [[Kontich]] due to a signalman's error. Forty people were killed and over 100 injured.{{sfn|Kichenside|1997|p=65}}
* May – ''India'' – A [[Tyer's Electric Train Tablet|tablet system]] failure allowed two tablets to be issued for passenger trains on the same section. They collided head-on between [[Dasna]] and [[Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh]], and burned so intensely as to prevent an accurate count of the dead. About 120 were killed and over 50 injured.{{sfn|Semmens|1994|pp=38–39}}
* July 8 - ''Canada'' - In Alberta near Medicine Hat, two locomotives had a head-on collision. Both drivers, Bob Twohey, and J. Nickelson, claimed to have encountered a ghost locomotive prior to this wreck. This information wasn't shared with the public until 1966 when fireman Gus Day did so. At least 7 people were killed in the incident.
* July 28 – ''Canada'' – The Pacific Express passenger train was operating in two sections. At [[Hemlo, Ontario]] on the Lake Superior Division of the ''[[Canadian Pacific Railway]]'', the following section of the Pacific Express passenger train ran into the rear of the section ahead killing one passenger and injuring others.<ref>The Globe_July28_1908_P1</ref> 
* August 25 – ''United States'' – In [[Asheville, North Carolina]] a southern railway freight train was washed out between [[Saluda, North Carolina|Saluda]] and [[Flat Rock, Henderson County, North Carolina|Flat Rock]]. As a result, one was left dead and one seriously injured.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gendisasters.com/north-carolina/3207/asheville%2C-nc-train-wreck%2C-aug-1908|title=Asheville, NC Train Wreck, Aug 1908|publisher=GenDisasters}}</ref>
* August 25 – ''United States'' – [[Seaboard Air Line Railroad|Seaboard Railway]] train number 74, [[Lumpkin, Georgia]]. Heavy rain caused the tracks to collapse causing the engine to roll over killing the engineer and fireman. The passenger cars remained intact preventing more deaths.{{citation needed|date=October 2017}}
* September 25 – ''United States'' – On the [[Northern Pacific Railroad]], two trains collided head-on at Young's Point (near [[Billings, Montana]]), after one of the engineers failed to yield priority to the other killing 23.{{sfn|Semmens|1994|p=39}}
* September 26 – ''Germany'' – [[Gleisdreieck (Berlin U-Bahn)|Gleisdreieck]], [[Berlin]]: On the ''Hochbahn'' (an elevated portion of the [[Berlin U-Bahn]]), a train from Leipziger Platz (now [[Berlin Potsdamer Platz station|Potsdamer Platz]]) station violated signals and collided with a train coming from [[Bülowstraße (Berlin U-Bahn)|Bülowstraße]] at the point where their tracks converged to go to [[Möckernbrücke (Berlin U-Bahn)|Möckernbrücke]]. One car was knocked to the ground killing 21 and seriously injuring 18. Afterwards, the driver at fault was sentenced to prison and the routes were reconfigured to cross instead of converging.{{sfn|Semmens|1994|p=39}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Hardy|first=Brian|title=The Berlin U-Bahn|publisher=Capital Transport Publishing|isbn=1-85414-184-8|date=1996|page=10}}</ref>
* October 14 – ''United States'' – [[Metz, Michigan]]: An evacuation train operated because of forest fires derailed at a trestle bridge weakened by the flames killing 35, mostly women and children.{{sfn|Semmens|1994|pp=39–40}}
* ''India'' – Two passenger trains collided on a single-track section of the [[Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway]], killing 79 people and injuring 119.{{sfn|Semmens|1994|p=40}}
* ''India'' – An express train ran past signals and collided with a freight on the [[Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway]] killing 26.{{sfn|Semmens|1994|p=40}}

== 1909 ==
* January 14 – ''France'' – a train from Paris to [[Le Mans]] collided with another train. [[Orville Wright|Orville]] and [[Katharine Wright]] were among the passengers.<ref name=Flight>{{Cite web|url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1909/1909%20-%200048.html?tracked=1|title=''Flight'', 23 January 1909, p50}}</ref>
* January 15 – ''United States'' – [[Dotsero, Colorado]], near [[Glenwood Canyon]]: Two trains collided head-on on the single track due to a failure to obey train orders killing 20.{{sfn|Semmens|1994|p=40}}
* January 22 – ''United Kingdom'' – two [[Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway]] locomotives were shunted into a siding at Hindley & Blackrod Junction, [[Lancashire]], but one of them did not completely clear the main line. A passenger train collided with it, killing one person and injuring 33.{{sfn|Earnshaw|1989|p=8}}
* February 2 – ''United States'' – Two trains on the [[Seaboard Air Line Railway|Seaboard Railroad]] collided head-on on Long Cane trestle, approximately six miles (9.6&nbsp;km) east of [[Abbeville, South Carolina]], at about 10:30 pm, killing three crewmen. Reportedly, one of the engineers had his watch set wrongly by an hour.<ref>{{cite news|title=Three Men Killed: In Railroad Wreck at Long Cane Trestle: Two Trains on the Seaboard Air Line Collided Six Miles East of Abbeville|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86063756/1909-02-06/ed-1/seq-1/|periodical=The Times and Democrat|place=Orangeburg, South Carolina|page=1|date=1909-02-06|accessdate=2018-02-15}}</ref>
* February 3 – ''United States'' – [[Powersville, Missouri]]: Two livestock trains on the [[Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad|Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway]] collided head-on, killing four crewmen.<ref>{{cite news|title=Stock Trains Crash|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86063756/1909-02-06/ed-1/seq-1/|periodical=The Times and Democrat|place=Orangeburg, South Carolina|page=1|date=1909-02-06|accessdate=2018-02-15}}</ref>
* February 4 – ''United States'' – Near [[University Heights, Bronx|University Heights]] in [[the Bronx]], [[New York City]], a group of laborers repairing tracks on the [[New York Central Railroad]] were struck by a construction train killing six injuring several others.<ref>{{cite news|title=Killed Six Italians|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86063756/1909-02-06/ed-1/seq-1/|periodical=The Times and Democrat|place=Orangeburg, South Carolina|page=1|date=1909-02-06|accessdate=2018-02-15}}</ref>
* February 24 – ''Ecuador'' – [[Riobamba]]: A northbound train derailed due to a track defect and dropped {{convert|100|ft|m}} down a cliff, killing 25 people and injuring 40.{{sfn|Semmens|1994|p=40}}
* March 5 – ''United Kingdom'' – A [[South Eastern and Chatham Railway]] passenger train overran signals at {{rws|Tonbridge Junction}}, [[Kent]] and collided with a mail train killing two and injuring eleven.{{sfn|Earnshaw|1990|p=12}}
* April 2 – ''United Kingdom'' – The locomotive of a [[Caledonian Railway]] express passenger train lost a driving wheel due to the failure of its crank axle causing the train to derailed near [[Crawford (South Lanarkshire) railway station|Crawford, Lanarkshire]].{{sfn|Earnshaw|1990|p=10}}
* April 21 – ''United Kingdom'' – At [[Cardiff|Cardiff, Wales]], a [[Rhymney Railway]] driver returned his [[0-6-2]] tank engine to the shed because the [[injector]]s would not work and the pressure-gauge needle was against the maximum stop at {{convert|200|psi|MPa|abbr=on}}. He and others assumed that the gauge was reading high, since the [[safety valve]]s should have opened at {{convert|145|psi|MPa|abbr=on}}, and planned to replace the gauge; but in fact the safety valves had been misassembled during a repair after the engine's last run, and the boiler pressure was well ''above'' 200 psi, which was also why the injectors did not work. The pressure continued rising until the boiler exploded and flew {{convert|45|yd|m|sigfig=1}} through the air, killing three.{{sfn|Semmens|1994|p=40, 242}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/BoT_Cardiff1909.pdf|title=Accident Returns: Extract for Accident at Cardiff on 21st April 1909|author1=E. Druitt|author2=Thomas Carlton|date=1909-06-03}}</ref> <!-- NOTE: This is also covered in ,{{sfn|Rolt|Kichenside|1982|pp=74–75}} but Rolt suggests the men assumed the gauge was reading 0 (the other side of the stop), which does not agree with the official report. -->
* June 1 – ''Canada'' – The [[Canadian Pacific Railway]]'s eastbound ''Imperial Limited'' express passenger train ran into an open switch at Hobon, a station west of [[Chapleau, Ontario]] on the CPR's Lake Superior Division, causing damage to the locomotive and the mail car. The body of an unauthorized and unidentified rider was found in the wreckage.<ref>Brandon Daily Sun, June 1, 1909. P1</ref>
* August 19 – ''United Kingdom'' – A passenger train derailed at {{rws|Friezland}}, [[Cheshire]] killing the crew.{{sfn|Hoole|1982|p=15}}
* October 18 – ''Canada'' – A passenger train derailed near Ramsey on the Lake Superior Division of the [[Canadian Pacific Railway]] when it encountered a herd of cattle being driven along the railway right-of-way. Several cars were derailed causing only slight injuries to passengers.<ref>Brandon Daily Sun, October 18, 1909, P2</ref>
* November 10 - [[Canada]] - In [[Vancouver]], a [[BCER]] streetcar train collided with a flatbed track carrying lumber at Lakeview Train Station, 14 people were killed and 9 people were injured.<ref>{{cite web|title=LAKEVIEW DISASTER|url=https://placesthatmatter.ca/location/lakeview-disaster/}}</ref>
* November 28 – ''Canada'' – A [[Great Northern Railway (U.S.)|Great Northern Railway]] train derailed by a washout at [[Sapperton, British Columbia]], killing 22 people.{{sfn|Semmens|1994|p=40}}
* December 13 – ''United States'' – The [[New York Central Railroad]]'s ''New York Central Limited'', eastbound from [[St. Louis]], collided at [[North East, Pennsylvania]], on the [[Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad]], with the rear of a stationary Chicago-Boston train killing at least six. Early reports incorrectly stated that the New York Central train was the ''[[20th Century Limited]]''.<ref>{{cite news| title=Fast Trains Crash: Three Killed in Collision at North East, Pa.: Blizzard Hides Signal: Limited Express Plunges Into Rear of Lake Shore Special: Many Passengers Injured: First Report That Wrecked Train Was "Twentieth Century Limited" Proved to Be Error| url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1909-12-14/ed-1/seq-1/| page=1| periodical=Evening Star| location=Washington, DC| date=1909-12-14| accessdate=2018-02-16}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| title=Many Reported Killed in Railroad Collision in Pennsylvania: Trains on Erie Road in Wreck: Six Known Dead and List May Reach 20:Twentieth Century Limited in Collision: Engine Hits Lake Shore Cars at Mile a Minute: Many Persons Killed or Injured in Terrific Smashup at Northeast, Pa.—Relief Trains Hurried to Scene| url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042462/1909-12-14/ed-1/seq-1/| page=1| periodical=Los Angeles Herald| date=1909-12-14| accessdate=2018-02-16}}</ref>{{sfn|Semmens|1994|p=41}}

== See also ==
* [[List of London Underground accidents]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

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*{{cite book |last=Trevena |first=Arthur |title=Trains in Trouble: Vol. 1 |year=1980 |publisher=Atlantic Books |location=Redruth |isbn=0-906899-01-X }}<!--{{sfn|Trevena|1980|p=}}-->
*{{cite book |last=Trevena |first=Arthur |title=Trains in Trouble: Vol. 2 |year=1981 |publisher=Atlantic Books |location=Redruth |isbn=0-906899-03-6 }}<!--{{sfn|Trevena|1981|p=}}-->
*{{cite book |last=Vaughan |first=Adrian |title=Obstruction Danger |year=1989 |publisher=Patrick Stephens Limited |location=Wellingborough |isbn=1-85260-055-1 }}

==External links==
* [http://www.northeast.railfan.net/wreck.html Railroad train wrecks 1907–2007]

{{Rail accidents}}

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[[Category:Lists of railway accidents and incidents|Rail accidents 1900-1949]]
[[Category:20th-century railway accidents]]

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