Talk:List of rail accidents (1980–1989)

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 * February 12, 1980 – Switzerland – A train and a locomotive collide at Bern. Two people are killed and eighteen are injured.
 * June 2, 1980 – Hinsnoret-Ornäs, Dalarna, Sweden: 11 people killed and over 60 injured as a passenger train and a freight train collide.
 * June 30, 1980 – Siófok, Hungary: Passenger train stikes a local bus. 20 people killed.
 * August 24, 1980 – According to TT news agency and Sveriges Television report, a 13 cars of Narvik–Stockholm Northern Arrow Express, carrying 500 passengers on board has derailed at Upplands-Väsby, Uppland, Sweden, killing nine people, another injuring are 35.
 * September 24, 1980 – Valencia, Spain: A train crashes into a bus on a level crossing killing 27 people.
 * December 13, 1980 – According to former Yugoslav media report, a freight train passed through a red signal, where it collided head-on with a Bihać–Bosanski Novi passenger train at Una River, Bosanska Krupa, SR Bosnia. The incident was caused by the freight train driver going too fast, killing 23 people, injuring another ten.
 * January 5, 1981 – According to Spanish EFE news agency report, a Burgos–Madrid passenger train ignored by a red traffic signal, and slammed head-on into a diesel locomotive car at Miraflores railroad station, Zaragoza, Spain, five railroad workers and one passenger killed.
 * January 21, 1981 – Two passenger trains collided near Gunung Payung, Kebasen, Central Java. The trains were Senja IV, hauled by CC 201 33 from Jakarta and Maja, hauled by CC 201 35 from Madiun. Senja IV passed through Notog Station, then from the other side, Maja departed from Kroya Station. When Maja entered Kebasen Station, the driver disobey (or might didn't see) the red signal, the train passed through the station. The Kebasen Station train dispatcher then burst into panic and sent an emergency signal to the level crossing at the north of the station, tried to stop the train, but the driver still disobey the emergency signal. Senja IV 's driver saw the light of Maja 's locomotive and tried to stop his train, but Maja 's driver didn't see the light of Senja IV 's locomotive. The trains collided near the banks of Serayu River. The collision killed 7 people and seriously injured 35. The accident occurred at dawn, when it was stormy and foggy.
 * March 8, 1981 – A train traveling from Mar del Plata, Argentina to Buenos Aires smashes into a pair of derailed freight cars at Brandsen Partido, states of Buenos Aires, 60 mi south of the capital, killing 45 people and injuring 120.
 * March 8, 1981 – A truck collides with a passenger train at a level crossing, sending five of the ten coaches over a bridge into a dry river bed in Hsinchu, Taiwan. Thirty people are killed and 131 injured in what was the worst rail crash in Taiwan to that point.
 * March 16, 1981 – A freight train rammed into back of passenger train halted by thick hock at approaching to Imata railroad station, Chivay, Arequipa Region, Peru. according to Peruvian railroad official confirmed, killing at least 30 people and injuring at least 90.
 * May 14, 1981 – Two express trains collide about 100 mi south of Seoul, killing 54 people.
 * July 17, 1981 – A freight train slams into the back of a passenger train in Madhya Pradesh, India, killing 39 people and injuring 43.
 * July 19, 1981 – In an incident blamed on sabotage, a train traveling to Ahmedabad from New Delhi, India, derailed in Gujarat, killing 30 people and injuring 70.
 * July 31, 1981 – According to Associated Press of Pakistan report, an Islamabad–Karachi nightly express with 1,700 passengers on board derailed and 500-yard of the rail track has damaged, between Samarsatta-Bahawalpur, Punjab of Pakistan, killing 43 people and injuring 50.
 * August 18, 1981 – A Silver Fern diesel-electric railcar left the tracks on a sharp bend, and plunged down 26 feet between Tangiwai and Waiouru, New Zealand, killing four, another 13 are injured.
 * November 30, 1981 – Mohora, Hungary: Departmental train strikes a bus. 17 killed, 29 injured.
 * January 27, 1982 – Bouhalouane train crash: A passenger train travelling from Oran to Algiers derailed 50 mi west of the Algerian capital, killing at least 130 people and injuring 146, in Algeria's worst train crash in 20 years.
 * January 27, 1982 – A freight train and an express passenger train collide head-on in heavy fog near Agra, India, killing 50 and injuring 50.
 * March 20, 1982 – A Mangalore-to-New Delhi train slams into a tourist bus at a level crossing in Andhra Pradesh, snapping the bus in two, killing at least 59 people on the bus and injuring 25 others.
 * July 12, 1982 – An express train travelling from Mexicali to Guadalajara, Mexico, derails into a ravine near Tepic, killing 34 people and injuring 136.
 * July 18, 1982 – A night express train travelling from Dortmund to Rimini, collided with a freight train near Othmarsingen (Switzerland). 6 people were killed and another 6 were injured.
 * September 9, 1982 – According to Hungarian Railroad Authority and Magyar Televiso Report, an express train collides with a bus on the outskirts of Szekesfehervar, Fejer, Hungary, killing at least sixteen, the majority bus passengers.
 * November 27, 1982 – According to Italian Railroad Authority and ANSA news agency report, an eighteen car train crashes when diverted by a faulty switch onto a parallel line, running into a section at San Benedetto del Tronto, Marche, Italy. A wagon-lit breaks on impact, killing 3 and injuring 32.
 * February 1, 1983 – According to a Mena report, a Cairo–Alexandria express hits a local train after passing a stop signal, killing nineteen people and injuring 77 at Qallama, Egypt.
 * February 20, 1983 – A train traveling from Nogales, Sonora, Mexico to Guadalajara is rammed in the rear by a freight train near Guaymas. The resulting explosion kills at least 56 people and injures 78.
 * May 27, 1983 – Frechen, Germany: The Oostende-Wien-Express night train derails owing to trackbed damage. The engine hits a bridge and the first car jackknifes into the wreckage. Seven people are killed, 23 injured.
 * June 10, 1983 – According to the Egyptian Al Gomhouria newspaper, a Cairo–Luxor express train rear-ends another passenger train on same track at Al-Ayat, Giza, Egypt, killing 24. Another 50 are injured.
 * April 13, 1984 Wiggins, Colorado, Two Burlington Northern trains collide head on killing 5 - RAR-85-04
 * June 14, 1984 – Motley, Minnesota, United States: Two Burlington Northern Railroad trains collide head-on.
 * July 14, 1984 – Divača, Slovenia (former Yugoslavia): A freight train ploughs into the rear of a crowded passenger train, killing 31 people and injuring 33.
 * August 16, 1984 – According to Indian State railroad confirmed report, a passenger train hit a bridge washaway and plunged into flooded ravine at near Chargoon railroad station, Madhya Pradesh, India, killing 56 people, another 120 are injured.
 * September 1, 1984 – Switzerland – Two trains collide at Martigny-Bourg. Six people are killed and 30 are injured.
 * November 25, 1984 – Hong Kong: A train derailed between Sheung Shui and Fanling station on the KCR East Rail. The incident occurred when the driver, preparing to back the train up to Sheung Shui station, failed to follow a speed/stop signal while the train was exceeding the speed limit. The train crashed into a boulder/buffer with the first 2 cars piling on top of each other. The degree of which they were damaged was so extensive that the cars never returned to service. Luckily, the passengers were unloaded before the crash while the driver sustained only minor injuries. However, the accident caused train services to suspend for the rest of the day and the incident spurred a series of public outcries concerning railway safety
 * January 21, 1985 – Gary, Indiana, United States: Two South Shore Line trains collide head-on, 85 injured.
 * March 9, 1985 – Bunovo, Bulgaria: 7 people killed in a terrorist attack in the mothers with children car on the Sofia - Burgas route.
 * March 20, 1985 – Ronnenberg, Germany: Two freight trains, one consisting of 20 tank cars filled with petrol, the other consisting of 19 cars loaded with coal, collide in the densely populated suburb of Empelde, close to Hanover and ignite, the fire burning almost a day.
 * April 26, 1985 – Switzerland – Two trains collide on the Bern–Solothurn Deisswil line. Four people are killed and sixteen are injured.
 * June 17, 1985 – A Cairo–Aswan express and freight train collided, and passenger train entered safety catch point and ten passenger cars with a locomotive engine are crushed, six car are caught fire at Qena, Egypt, killing ten, and 14 are injured.
 * July 11, 1985 – A four cars of express train from Kanazawa are derailed at Noto railroad Line, Anamizu, Ishikawa, Japan, killing 7 people, another 26 are injured. In an incident cause of heavy rain with landslide.
 * August 3, 1985 – A limited express southbound Capdenac from Paris where head-on collide with two-car local train are go-ahead on same track, at Assier station, Flaujac-Gare, Cahors, France, killing at least 34 people, injuring at least 150.
 * August 31, 1985 – A Paris-Portbou express derailed and head-on collided with postal train at Argenton-sur-Creuse, France, killing 43 people, another 37 are injured. In an incident cause by express driver are exceed speed.
 * December 27, 1985 – A Buenos Aires–Concordia passenger train head-on collision a freight train at Zarate, state of Buenos Aires, Argentina, killing five people and injuring eight.
 * January 15, 1986 – A Wuhan–Guangzhou express train explosion at Shaoguan, Guangdong, China, in an incident blamed on sabotage, killing seven people and injuring 38.
 * February 28, 1986 – An express train ran over and derailed, when passenger and driver watching celebrating at a local festival at Telicherry railroad station, Thalassery, Kerala, India, killing 31 and injuring 100.
 * March 28, 1986 – An extra three locomotive with five passenger car Johannesburg–Pietersburg express train derail at track, Pylpunt, Gauteng, South Africa, killing at least sixteen people.
 * May 5, 1986 – A Lisbon-Covilha express train smashed standing commuter train at Povoa de Santa Iria station, Lisbon, Portugal, in an incident caused by an express train driver has exceed speed, killing 14 people, another injuring are 18.
 * June 28, 1986 – An express train head-on collide with local train at Black Sea coastal resort town of Gagry, Georgia, killing at least 70 people, injuring another 140.
 * March 8, 1987 – According to Television Nacional de Chile report, a freight train hits standing passenger train at Pelequen, O'Higgins, Chile, killing twelve people and injuring 35.
 * July 28, 1987 – Three cars of passenger train from Aleppo explode at Al-Jazira, northern Syria, killing at least 50 people.
 * November 16, 1987 – Lerum, near Gothenburg, Sweden: two passenger trains collide at a station, killing 9 people and injuring 140. Signal repairers by mistake had switched two cables in a switch machine.
 * January 24, 1988 – No.80 express train Kunming-Shanghai derails and overturns between Qiewu and Dengjiacun, Yunnan, China, killing at least 90 people, injuring another 67 people.
 * April 19, 1988 – Piła, Poland: At 7.32a.m., 10 soldiers killed when troop train collides with a goods train; 28 injured.
 * April 25, 1988 – Sorø train accident, Denmark: 8 people die and 72 are injured as an intercity train derails in a switch in Sorø owing to excessive speed.
 * June 4, 1988 – Drogomil, near Bytom Odrzanski, Poland: 10 soldiers die in collision between army truck and passenger train from Zielona Góra; truck explodes after collision because of eight jerrycans of petrol; 3 soldiers survived.
 * January 15, 1989 – A Chittagong bound express train and Dhaka bound mail train, both trains carrying Muslim pilgrims crash head-on at Tongi railroad station, Maizdi Khan, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing at least 135 people, injuring at least 1,000. Many people were riding on the roof of trains and between passenger cars.
 * January 18, 1989 – A passenger train plows into a bus carrying local newly-weds and families on an unattended crossing in Huinan, Tonghua, Jilin, China, killing at least 32 people, another 41 injured.
 * April 2, 1989 – According MENA of Egypt report, a passenger train and freight train collide head-on. Four passenger cars catch fire and derail, one car plunging into the River Nile at Damanhour, Nile Delta, Egypt, killing six people and injuring 102.
 * May 4, 1989 – Tepic, Mexico: 20-52 (depending on reports) are killed after train brakes fail while descending a mountain side; the locomotive and three passenger cars flip on a curve and plunge down the ravine.

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