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To: goldworldnet who wrote (567687)	4/22/2004 11:35:08 AM
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Major Train Disasters Since 1900 27 minutes ago By The Associated Press story.news.yahoo.com A list of some of the major train disasters since 1900: _ May 22, 1915: Passenger train collides with a troop train in Gretna, Scotland. 227 people killed. _ Dec. 12, 1917: Troop train derails near the entrance of Mt. Cenis tunnel in Modane, France. 543 killed. _ Jan. 16, 1944: Train wrecks in the Torro Tunnel in Leon Province, Spain. More than 500 killed. _ Mar. 2, 1944: Train stalls in a tunnel in Salerno, Italy, suffocating passengers. 521 killed. _ Oct. 22, 1949: Danzig-Warsaw express derails in Nr. Dwor, Poland. More than 200 killed. _ Apr. 3, 1955: Train plunges into a canyon in Guadalajara, Mexico. 300 killed. _ Sept. 29, 1957: Express train collides with stationary oil train in Montgomery, West Pakistan. 250 killed. _ Feb. 1, 1970: Express train rams stationary commuter train in Buenos Aires, Argentina. 236 killed. _ Oct. 6, 1972: Train carrying religious pilgrims derails and catches fire in Saltillo, Mexico. 208 killed. _ June 6, 1981: Train crashes after bridge collapses in flash floods during monsoon in Bihar, India. More than 800 people killed in what is reportedly world's worst train disaster. _ June 3, 1989: An explosion of a liquefied gas pipeline engulfs two Trans-Siberian Railroad trains parked outside the Central Asian city of Ufa in what was then the Soviet Union. 575 people killed. _ Jan. 4, 1990: Overcrowded 16-car passenger train collides with standing freight train in Sindh Province, Pakistan. More than 210 killed. _ Sept. 22, 1994: Faulty brakes cause a train to plunge into a ravine in Tolunda, Angola. 300 killed. _ Aug. 20, 1995: A speeding passenger train crashes into a train that had stalled after hitting a cow in Firozabad, India. 358 killed. _Aug. 2, 1999: Two express trains collide head-on in Gauhati, India. More than 285 killed. _Feb. 20, 2002: An overcrowded train en route from Cairo to the southern Egyptian city of Luxor burst into flames, then travels 2 1/2 miles before the driver stops. More than 360 people die. _ Feb. 18, 2004: Runaway train cars carrying fuel and industrial chemicals derail, setting off explosions destroy five villages in Neyshabur, Iran. At least 200 people killed. * * *