List of rail accidents (1910–1919)

This is a list of rail accidents from 1910 to 1919.

1910 January 1 - United Kingdom - Braunton Road rail accident, In Devon, United Kingdom, 1 person was killed after being hit by a railroad crossing gate and a train. January 21 – Canada – Spanish River derailment Northern Ontario: Canadian Pacific Railway's westbound Soo Express derailed while crossing the bridge at the Spanish River killing 44 people and injuring many more. January 29 – United Kingdom – A London, Brighton and South Coast Railway express train derailed at , London due to a faulty wheelset on one of the carriages. Seven people were killed and 65 injured. February 14 – United States – Near Elkton, Kentucky, the engine and two cars of Elkton & Guthrie Railroad passenger train No. 84 derailed killing the engineer and fireman.The Thirty First Annual Report of the Railroad Commissioners of Kentucky March 1 – United States – The Wellington, Washington avalanche: in Wellington, near the Cascade Tunnel, Washington, approximately 100 were killed when a snow avalanche pushed two trains off a cliff. The trains were stopped at a mountain depot; the passenger train was halted by an avalanche ahead of it, and then trapped by an avalanche behind it. Passengers and rail employees mostly stayed on board the stopped trains, which were subsequently struck squarely by another avalanche. March 4 – Canada – 1910 Rogers Pass avalanche British Columbia: An avalanche killed 62 men clearing the snow of a preceding avalanche from the Canadian Pacific Railway's transcontinental railway, near the summit of Rogers Pass through the Selkirk Mountains. March 21 – United States – Green Mountain train wreck, Iowa: A Rock Island Railroad passenger train derailed, killing 52 passengers and severely injuring scores of others. March 30 – Germany – The luxury Lloyd Express from Hamburg to Genoa, overran signals at Mülheim an der Ruhr due to the driver's error and collided with a troop train going to Metz (now in France); 20 were killed and 41 seriously injured. June 9 – Canada – A freight train derailed near Marathon, Ontario killing three people. The locomotive and boxcars plunged into Lake Superior, sinking in of water. They were discovered in 2016 and 2014 respectively. June 18 – France – On the Chemins de fer de l'État, a local train from Paris stopped at Villepreux – Les Clayes station due to engine trouble—fortunately, with many of the passengers waiting on the platform—when an express for Granville overran signals and crashed into it at about ; at least 18 people were killed and 90 injured. The driver of the express was chased from the scene by an angry crowd and later arrested. June 23 – Mexico – On the Manzanillo line, the rear four cars of a troop train broke free and ran away backwards; 37 people were killed and 50 injured. July 4 – United States – Due to an accident at Sharonville, Ohio, the New York Central Railroad's westbound 20th Century Limited was diverted onto the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway. Due to an error in transmitting train orders, the train collided head-on with an eastbound freight at Middletown, Ohio killing 20. August 8 – United States – 1910 Ignacio Rail Accident: A regularly scheduled San Francisco and North Pacific passenger train collided with an extra train not listed on the timetable in Novato, California. up to 16 were killed and up to 30 were injured. August 14 – France – At Saujon on the Paris-Orléans Railway, an excursion train from Bordeaux collided with a freight train; 43 people were killed and 50 injured, most of them young girls. August 15 – United States – Two trolley cars of the Gettysburg Electric Railway collided near Devil's Den, ejecting people onto rocks, resulting in one fatality. A similar collision occurred during the 1913 Gettysburg reunion, and trolley incidents on the Gettysburg Battlefield included failed tracks, sabotage, and lightning strikes. September 21 – United States – A southbound interurban car on the Fort Wayne and Wabash Valley was driven past the point where it should have waited for an empty northbound car. The two trains collided killing 34. October 4 – United States – Due to a heavy passenger load for the Veiled Prophets parade at St. Louis, a southbound interurban train on the Illinois Traction System was operated in two sections. The motorman of a northbound train that was supposed to wait for it at Staunton, Illinois, failed to understand this and collided with the second section in the worst accident ever to an interurban in the U.S; 36 were killed. November 15 – United Kingdom – An express freight train overran signals and crashed into the rear of another freight train at , County Durham. The driver may have fallen asleep at the controls. December 6 – United Kingdom – A London and North Western Railway passenger train ran into the rear of another at , Middlesex killing three and injuring more than 40. December 24 – United Kingdom – Hawes Junction rail crash, Cumbria, England: A busy signalman forgot about a pair of light engines on the main line and allowed an express train to follow them into the same section, causing a collision which killed 12. December 24 – United Kingdom – At Bolsover, England, a group of children got onto a level crossing through an open wicket gate and were struck by a train; three were killed and three injured. December 24 – United States – Eight people died in a collision at Upper Sandusky, Ohio. December 24 – France – At Montereau on the PLM railway, an express from Paris to Modane collided with a freight train, killing one crew member and injuring seven passengers.

1911 January 23 – United Kingdom – Pontypridd railway accident. A collision between a passenger train and coal train on the Taff Vale Railway at Hopkinstown killed eleven and seriously injured four. April 22 – South Africa – Blaauwkrantz Bridge disaster - A mixed train on the Kowie Railway, running from Port Alfred to Grahamstown, derailed on the approach to the Blaauwkrants (now Bloukrans) Bridge, probably due to a wheel defect on a freight car. Four passenger cars fell into a ravine deep killing thirty people. April 29 – United States – Martin's Creek, New Jersey. A train, carrying 169 school teachers, friends, and relatives, bound from Utica, Syracuse, and Waterville in New York state to Washington, DC, was hurled down a forty-foot (12 m) embankment at Martin's Creek. May 29 – United States – Indianola train wreck. A collision between two passenger trains at Indianola, Nebraska killed 18 and injured 32. July 11 – United States – outside of Bridgeport, Connecticut: The Federal Express, carrying the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team on a trip from Philadelphia to Boston, plunged down an embankment, killing 14 passengers.Tuesday, July 11th from BaseballLibrary.com No one from the team was killed. July 21 – United States – Ridgewood, New Jersey. Two interurban cars of the North Jersey Rapid Transit Company collided head-on due to faulty signals, killing 3 crew and injuring 16 passengers. August 13 – United States – Fort Wayne, Indiana: The Pennsylvania Railroad's Penn Flyer derailed at Fort Wayne. Almost immediately, the derailed equipment was struck by an oncoming freight train, killing four and injuring 57. August 25 – United States – Lehigh Valley train wreck – A broken rail on a bridge in Rochester, New York resulted in two passenger cars falling over the side killing 28 passengers; a majority of them were Civil War veterans. October – United States – Hampstead, New Hampshire: two freight trains collided head-on, killing engineer Allen Bradley November 23 – France – A bridge collapsed under a passenger train at Montreuil-Bellay, killing 22 people. December 13 – United Kingdom – A freight train ran away near Wombwell, Yorkshire and crashed into wagons being shunted at Darfield Main killing two. December 15 – United Kingdom – A freight train derailed near Lartington Quarry, County Durham when the driver stopped too severely. During recovery operations, a steam crane overturned.

1912 January 11 – United States – Hempstead, New York – A milk train runs into the back of a stationary passenger car at Hempstead (LIRR station) sending it past the end of the line, across Fulton Avenue into the O. L. Schwenke Land & Investment Company Building. One operator and one conductor were killed. January 16 – United States – Chunky, Mississippi – Alabama & Vicksburg Railway passenger train no. 1 crashes in a creek. One person is killed with a few injured. 80 passengers were on board the westbound train. March 7 – United States –Nottingham, Ohio – The New York Central's Twentieth Century Limited, bound for Chicago, derailed at 2:05 a.m. No passengers were killed. A sleeping car crushed a shanty where a switchman was sleeping, killing him. March 8 – United States –West Lebanon, Indiana – The Wabash Railroad's Continental Limited, en route from Buffalo to St. Louis, derailed at Redwood Creek, two miles west of West Lebanon. All eight cars derailed and fell thirty feet into a ditch. Four were killed and sixty hurt. March 18 – United States – San Antonio, Texas – A Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railroad locomotive, Number 704, suffers a boiler explosion at the Southern Pacific roundhouse, killing 36 to 41 people and injuring another 50 in the deadliest locomotive explosion in United States history. The locomotive had been damaged in an incident at Seguin on December 18, 1911, and was being returned to service following repairs when the explosion occurred. March 23 – Canada – At a location named Birch on the Lake Superior Division of the Canadian Pacific Railway, eastbound and westbound freight trains collide. The eastbound train passed Birch instead of waiting there for the train meet. According to the article, two train crew members died, another was missing and two others were seriously injured.The Globe_March 25 1912_P1 March 31 – United States – Hyde Park, New York – The New York Central's eastbound Twentieth Century Limited derailed 1 1/4 miles south of Hyde Park at 8:53 a.m., injuring 51 passengers and 17 crew. June 21 – United Kingdom – A Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway passenger train derails on the Charlestown Curve, Yorkshire killing four people and seriously injuring eleven. July 4 – United States – Corning train wreck: A Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad express train crashes into the rear of a stalled excursion train near Corning on Independence Day, killing 39. July 5 – United States – On the Ligonier Valley Railroad, a train order was issued for an excursion train making the trip from Ligonier, Pennsylvania to a fairground to wait for a coal train going the other way. The excursion train consisted of a single car being pushed from behind. It proceedes against the order and collides with the coal train, crushing the car between the two locomotives. 19 passengers and 3 crewmen were killed August 29 – United Kingdom – a light engine collides with a rake of nine carriages at . One passenger is killed and 43 injured. September 17 – United Kingdom – Ditton Junction rail crash: A driver misreads signals resulting in 15 deaths. November 27 – United States – A Pennsylvania Railroad express train crashes at Glen Loch, Pennsylvania killing four and injuring more than two dozen.

1913 January 1 – United States – Guyandotte River bridge accident: A too heavy locomotive crossed onto the Guyandotte River bridge, which was being repaired causing the bridge to collapse, killing an engineer and six workmen. January 2 – United States – A horse and buggy with a family of four is struck by a Rock Island Railroad train at a grade crossing north of Belleville, Kansas. The wife and 2 children were killed and the husband dies of injuries.