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Rafz train crash. Locomotive 460 087-0 was hauling the Interregio train. / 47.6034°N 8.5434°E / 47.6034; 8.5434. The Rafz train crash occurred at approximately 6.43 am on 20 February 2015. An S-Bahn and an Interregio express train collided at Rafz railway station in Rafz, Canton of Zürich, Switzerland.
At 18:50 CEST (16:50 UTC ), [1] two passenger trains were involved in a head-on collision at Granges-près-Marnand, Vaud, Switzerland, [2] on the Palézieux – Payerne line. [3] Initially, it was reported that up to 44 people were injured, [4] five seriously. [5] This was later revised to 25 injured. [6]
140 [citation needed] Deaths. 1. Injured. 10 (4 serious) [citation needed] The Tiefencastel derailment occurred near the municipality of Tiefencastel, Switzerland, on 13 August 2014 when a passenger train travelling on the Albula Railway was struck by a landslide and derailed. Ten people were injured, four seriously, and 1 person died.
On 11 November 2000, a fire in the tunnel of Gletscherbahn Kaprun 2 funicular in Kaprun, Austria, killed 155 people. The cause was traced to a faulty fan heater. Most of the victims were skiers on their way to the Kitzsteinhorn Glacier. To date, this incident remains the deadliest rail disaster in Austrian history.
The Münchenstein rail disaster on 14 June 1891 was historically the worst railway accident ever to affect Switzerland. [ 1] A crowded passenger train fell through a girder bridge, killing more than seventy people and injuring many others. The accident occurred on the railway line between Basel and Delémont, near the Bruckgut just below the ...
Ricken Tunnel railway accident. Categories: Railway accidents and incidents by country. Transport disasters in Switzerland. Rail transport in Switzerland. Railway accidents and incidents in Europe by country. Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata.
Deaths. 1. Injured. 40. The Fiesch derailment occurred on Friday 23 July 2010, at 11:50 CET [1] when a Glacier Express train, from Zermatt heading towards St. Moritz, derailed at low speed between the cities of Lax and Fiesch, Canton Valais, Switzerland. Two rear panorama cars were overturned while a third car derailed but remained on the track.
The crash and the subsequent killing of the ATC were used as the basis of a motion picture produced by German and Swiss TV stations SWR and SF, called Flug in die Nacht – Das Unglück von Überlingen (Flight into the Night – the Accident at Überlingen) (2009), starring Ken Duken as Nielsen and Evgeni Sitochin as Kaloyev. [citation needed]