Talk:List of rail accidents (1970–1979)

1971 - Oshawa, Canada
A freight car runs away from where it is parked at Oshawa, Ont.'s General Motors North plant and kills two pedestrians; it proceeds until it comes to rest near the south GM plant. Don't have the date. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.144.72.52 (talk) 15:12, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

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The following entries were removed as they were unreferenced. Feel free to reference and re-add them. Mjroots (talk) 07:18, 28 May 2014 (UTC)


 * February 18, 1970 – A passenger train derails and falls into a canyon at Langa Langa, Benue, Nigeria, killing at least 81 people.
 * February 23, 1970 – Valašské Meziříčí—Púchov railway line, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic): A passenger train collided with a single locomotive. 11 people killed, 14 injured.
 * March 27, 1970 – Pau–Canfranc railway line, France: A fully loaded train moving down the Pyrenees on the French side derailed causing the railway bridge of Estanguet to collapse. The international rail station at Canfranc was subsequently abandoned.
 * May 6, 1970 - Spokane WA - A mother and 7 children are killed when their vehicle collides with a freight train. One 8 year old daughter survives.
 * May 20, 1970 – New York City, NY A rerouted Brooklyn-bound GG train on the express track crosses over a switch near Roosevelt Avenue–Jackson Heights station, slammed into another train on the local track, which was taken out of service for a brake problem earlier. The out of service train on the local track was being operated from the third car while the conductor was in the first car, relaying instructions to the motorman via. a flashlight. 2 people killed, 77 injured
 * June 1970 – Oslo, Norway: A train from Skien collides with a shunting locomotive at Lysaker. 30 people injured.
 * June 21, 1970 – Crescent City, Illinois, United States: Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad Company's Train No. 20 derails in downtown Crescent City; propane tank car ruptures and explosions cause fires that destroy the city center. No fatalities.
 * August 9, 1970 – Plentzia, Basque Country, Spain: Two EuskoTren trains crash in each other on the Bilbao–Plentzia line killing 33 people. During 1995 this line was transferred to Metro Bilbao.
 * December 11, 1970 – Řikonín, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic): An express train named "Pannonia" (Bucarest–Praha) crashed into a freight train which had derailed after collision with a locomotive. Two carriages of the express train then fell down from a bridge. 31 people killed (including 30 Poles - railway workers and their families), 130 injured.
 * December 31, 1970 – A passenger train carrying railroad workers collides with a standing freight train at Saghzi-Nibod, Ostan-e Estafan, Iran, killing 70 people, another 140 are injured.
 * February 15, 1971 – According to former Yugoslav Tanjug news agency report, a diesel locomotive passenger train caught fire inside tunnel at outskirt of Zenica, Bosnia, killing 34 people, another 60 are injured.
 * February 22, 1971 – Kannonkoski, Finland: a school bus and a rail car collided at a level crossing 2.5 miles north from Kannonkoski station; six children were killed and some passengers slightly injured.
 * March 4, 1971 – A local train collides with a small truck that enters the crossing on the Fujikyu line, Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi, Japan, killing at least 17 people and injuring 69.
 * October 25, 1971 – Two limited express trains collide head-on in the Kintetsu Osaka Line tunnel at Hakusan (present-day Tsu), Mie, Japan, killing at least 25 people and injuring 236.
 * December 8, 1971 – St. Cloud, Minnesota, USA: Four teenagers from South St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, die in a car struck by Amtrak's Empire Builder at a railroad crossing in St. Cloud, Minnesota, USA. A wooden carving 'photograph' memorial hangs in the commons area of the South St. Paul Senior High School.
 * January 16, 1972 – A Munich–Athens Acropolis Express collided head-on with a local passenger train, with five passenger cars crushed at outskirt of Doxaras, Larisa, Greece, killing 15 people, another 50 are injured.
 * March 30, 1972 – Potgietersrus (present day of Mokopane), Limpopo, South Africa: Eight cars of passenger train derailed, with 32 people killed and 135 injured.
 * June 4, 1972 – A Kolkatta-Khulna passenger train head-on collided with standing freight train, with crushing 10 passenger cars at Jessore station, Khulna, Bangladesh, killing 76, another 500 are injured.
 * June 16, 1972 – A tunnel collapsed by huge rock fall, with two passenger train derailed, at Vierzy tunnel, Aisne, France, killing at least 107 people, injuring another 111.
 * July 21, 1972 – A Madrid–Cádiz nightly express head-on collided with standing local train at Utrera, outskirts of Seville, Spain, killing at least 77 people, another 103 are injured.
 * August 6, 1972 – A Bahawalpor–Karachi Tezro express rammed into standing freight train at Liaqatpur station, Punjab of Pakistan, killing 50 people, another 150 are injured.
 * September 29, 1972 – Rust, Western Cape, South Africa: A seven passenger cars and a diesel locomotive engine careened off a bend and plunged down, with 31 people killed and 71 injured.
 * October 6, 1972 – A 22-car express train carrying 2,200 pilgrims returning from a Roman Catholic religious festival derailed, overturned and caught fire at Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico. The incident was caused by the train's excessive speed when approaching a curve. Mexican officials confirmed 208 people killed and at least 1,000 injured.
 * October 31, 1972 – A Konya–Istanbul passenger train derailed and move onto the main track in a signal mixup, and some passenger cars burst into flames at Eskisehir, Turkey, killing at least 30 people.
 * November 6, 1972 – An express train bound for Aomori with 761 passengers on board is going through the Hokuriku railroad tunnel, Tsuruga, Japan, when a fire starts in the dining car, killing at least 31 people and injuring 637.
 * August 1973 – Glasgow, Scotland: Electric train hits a diesel train near Glasgow Central Station. 5 people die, 50 are injured.
 * September 7, 1973 – Copenhagen, Denmark: 2 people killed and 23 injured as an S-train collides with another stationary S-train in a tunnel close to Østerport station.
 * June 17, 1974 – According to a MENA report, a Cairo–Alexandria express train collided with Egyptian military truck at level crossing of Benha, Qalyubia Governorate, Egypt, killing 16 people, another injuring are 90.
 * August 4, 1974 – Italicus Express bombing 1974: A bomb explodes in car 5 of the Italicus Express running from Rome to Munich on the night of the 4 August. Twelve passengers were killed and 44 were wounded. About ten years later in the same place, another terrorist attack against another train killed 17 and wounded 265.
 * January 18, 1975 – According to Egyptian newspaper al-Ahram report, a Damietta–Cairo express train derailed and crushing six passenger cars, where a man riding on locomotive engine, which overturned twice at Kalyub, Nile Delta, Egypt, killing 27 people, another injuring are 52.
 * March 31, 1975 – According to Swedish Sveriges Television report, a 13 cars Stockholm–Malmö Oeresund Arrow express, carrying 300 passengers on board has derailed at Mjoelby, Ostergotland, Sweden, killing 14 people, another injuring 39.
 * April 4, 1975 – At Žąsliai in Vilnius - Kaunas line, passing passenger train hit the fuel cistern that was protruding too much out of the improperly parked, standing freight train. 17 people were killed in the resulted fire. Dispatcher sentenced for 13 years in prison.
 * June 8, 1975 – Warngau, Germany: Two trains collide on a single-rail stretch of track between Lenggries and Munich because of a dispatcher error. 41 people dead, 122 injured.
 * July 17, 1975 – According to SBT television of Brazil report, a six car of commuter train with 1,000 passengers on board plunged rail track, and crushing two passenger cars at Madareira, state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, killing 14 people and 340 injured.
 * October 14, 1975 – Hajdúsámson, Hungary: Local bus struck by local train. 12 people killed, 8 injured.
 * December 14, 1975 – According to Lusa News Agency report, a Lisbon-Paris express head-on collides with a local train at Fornos de Algodres, Viseu, Portugal, killing 16 people and injuring 60.
 * January 16, 1976 – Glenbrook, freight train runs into rear of failed passenger train.
 * March 17, 1976 – A Machu Picchu–Cuzco sightseeing passenger train smashes into the rear of another passenger train at Panradero Imata railroad station, Arequipa, Peru, killing 30 people, injuring another 100, reported by Peruvian America Television.
 * April 21, 1976 – at Changhua, Taiwan: A bus carrying students collides with a train, killing 40 people and injuring 42.
 * November 29, 1976 – An overnight Mombasa–Nairobi express carrying 600 passengers on board, plunges into flood-waters caused by thunderstorm at Kathekani, Voi, Kenya, killing 12 people and injuring 70.
 * February 28, 1977 – According to Televisio de Catalunya report, a Martorell-Plaza de Espana of Barcelona and Plaza de Espana-Igualada commuter locomotive cars train head-on collided near San Andres de Barca station, Barcelona, Spain, killing 22 people and injuring 97.
 * August, 1977 – Near LaGrange, Illinois, interchange of BNSF and IHB lines.
 * November 9, 1977 – Pensacola, Florida, United States: A Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company freight train derails near Escambia Bay, and a punctured tank car of anhydrous ammonia kills two local residents as they try to flee the toxic gas cloud. Another 46 are injured.
 * November 11, 1977 – Freight train with dynamite explodes at Iri railroad station, Iksan, Jeollabukdo, South Korea, killing at least 57 people.
 * February 25, 1978 – According to Argentine television network Artear report, an 18 car Tucuman–Buenos Aires express train carrying 2,130 passengers returning from a sea side resort slams into a heavy weight truck and skids along the embankment for 900 feet at Saa Pereya, Santa Fe, Argentina. 11 passenger cars derail, killing 50 people, another 120 are injured.
 * February 26, 1978 – Youngstown, Florida, United States: Atlanta & St. Andrews Bay Railway freight train derails, a chlorine gas cloud, released from a punctured tank car, kills eight people and injures 138. This was the first recorded major liquified chlorine gas disaster and the cloud was some 5 km long.
 * April 13, 1978 – Budapest, Hungary: commuter train overruns a buffer stop owing to brake failure and crashes into the station building. 13 people killed, 25 injured.
 * September 10, 1978 – Miamisburg, Ohio, United States: 15 cars of a Conrail freight train derailed as the result of a hotbox caused by uneven loading of a gondola carrying steel ingots loaded at Buffalo, New York, by Republic Steel, demolishing a house beside the tracks and killing its three occupants.
 * December 3, 1978 – Shipman, Virginia, United States: Southern Railway's Southern Crescent enters a curve at excess speed; all of the consist but the lead engine and last car derail and slide down a ravine. Six die, including Gov. Jimmy Carter's former chef, Louis Price, killed in the galley. Sixty others are injured, most trapped in the wreckage.
 * December 15, 1978 – According to Telemadrid Television of Spain report, a Madrid–Cádiz Talgo Express with 300 passengers rammed into freight train at Manzanares railroad station, Ciudad Real, Spain, at least 12 people dead and injuring 60.
 * December 16, 1978 – According to China Central Television report, No.87 express Nanjing–Xuzhou head-on collided with standing No.368 Xian–Xuzhou passenger train at Yangzhuang railroad station, Lujiang, Anhui, China, killing 106 people, another 218 are injured.
 * January 4, 1979 – Two Ankara-Istanbul express head collided in blizzard condition, and both passenger cars crushed at Esenkoy, Cinacik, Yalova, Turkey, both train carrying 1,300 passengers, at least 32 people killed and injuring 216.
 * January 9, 1979 – A local commuter train rammed into standing another suburban rapid express on a blocked same track at Behichey railroad station, Ankara, Turkey, killing 30 people and injuring 95.
 * January 18, 1979 – A twenty-three cars of freight train and a five cars of Valencia bound local train head on collide at Sueca, Valencia, Spain, at least five killed.
 * January 26, 1979 – A passenger train with diesel locomotive derailed with overturned at Chuadunga station, Khuina, Bangladesh, killing 70 people and injuring 200.
 * February 11, 1979 – A passenger train halted in a station that hit from another train at Heilongjiang, China, in an incident caused by another train driver has exceed speed, at least 100 people dead.
 * 21 August 1979 – Taling Chan, Thailand: 54 people are killed in the worst accident in Thai railway history when a Thonburi - Nakhon Pathom commuter train collides with a Bangsue - Padang Besar freight train at Taling Chan, as a result of errors on the part of the fatigued freight train engineer.
 * September 13, 1979 – A freight train rammed a Belgrade–Skopje express train at Stalac, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia, with two freight cars and four passengers car are crashed, killing 61 people, another 96 are injured.
 * October 20, 1979 – A commuter train smashed into a local bus at crossing level of outskirt of Cairo, Egypt, killing 28 people and 36 are injured.
 * October 31, 1979 – Holhol, Alisabieh, Djibouti: An express train crashed and hurling down a hillside and at least 60 people killed with 80 injured.
 * November 14, 1979 – Matunga district, Mumbai, India. One local train rammed into the next local train at Sion Mumbai - the train driver may have died and the train did not stop. Train nos. T81 and C35 involved. Five died, 21 injured. The accident was classified under the category of "Act of God" to prevent improvement in the safety system by Railway Administration, Indian Railways. Information obtained under RTI.

October 1973 - 155th Street in The Bronx
Who has info on this wreck along the Penn Central Hudson Division from around October 10, 1973 at 155th Street in The Bronx? -User:DanTD (talk) 13:31, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I found a NY Times article about it, so I added it to the article. It was actually the Harlem Division. Arg342 (talk) 13:09, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

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Island Mountain Tunnel Fire in 1978 (Eureka, California)
I found a YouTube video of a heavy hauling crew in 1979 moving some Southern Pacific diesel locomotives from the site of the "Island Mountain Tunnel Fire" in Eureka, California back in 1978. Anyone have more details on that fire than posted in the video, and a reason this shouldn't be added to the list? -User:DanTD (talk) 15:02, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

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Criminal derailment July 2, 1978, in Richmond, California
On the Southern Pacific tracks in Richmond, California, a southbound Santa Fe freight train derailed into a row of hopper cars on a siding when a vandal threw a switch. The engineer and fireman were injured. Images of newspaper clippings can be found in this Facebook thread. https://www.facebook.com/groups/20518659266/posts/10160775399449267/ -- SpareSimian (talk) 17:56, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Facebook is not admissible, please see WP:SPS. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 23:11, 16 February 2023 (UTC)

1970 Tyler, Texas Train Collision
On June 25, 1970, in Tyler, Texas, Cotton Belt train #9147 collided with a gasoline truck, killing 2 crew members. 24.54.116.69 (talk) 01:01, 5 August 2023 (UTC)