Accidents and Derailments

Pictures of derailments and accidents

Date: 2011-12-08
Owner: Gallery Administrator
Size: 110 items (261 items total)
Container derailment near Asavali on Central Railway near Igatpuri.
Album: Container derailment near Asavali on Central Railway near Igatpuri.
Thane bridge collapse
Album: Thane bridge collapse
Derailment at Thinaighat
Album: Derailment at Thinaighat

Pictures of derailment and rescue operation at Thinaighat.

Neral Matheran line Monsoon Damage Photos by Pawan Koppa
Album: Neral Matheran line Monsoon Damage Photos by Pawan Koppa
Derailment - SK Collection.
Album: Derailment - SK Collection.

Derailment pictures from SK.

Flash Floods - Dhadhar River
Album: Flash Floods - Dhadhar River
Flash Flood
Album: Flash Flood
A Disaster Recovery Operation
Album: A Disaster Recovery Operation

A photo-essay on a disaster recovery operation. By S Srinivas.


The text of the article is at http://www.irfca.org/articles/derail.html

The Matsyagandha Disaster
Album: The Matsyagandha Disaster

2004-06-27

Level Crossing Accident
Album: Level Crossing Accident

Pictures of the accident involving Train No.728 Quilon-Madurai passenger with trailer lorry loaded with JCB at LC gate No.118 at km.357/500-400 between Sengulam and Tirunelveli Nagercoil-Tirunelveli section of Trivandrum Division, Southern Railway on 08.1

Eastern Bengal Railway wreck, 1892
Head-on collision, 1907

Aftermath of head-on collision. Location and identity of trains involved unknown; date stated to be "December 1907". The accident is said to have resulted in many fatalities. Photograph originally from Illustrated London News. Scan from the Inte

US War Dept. 2-8-2 MG locomotive handling a derailment, BAR.
US War Dept. 2-8-2 MG locomotive handling a derailment, BAR.
abhishek kashyap IZN

The ill-fated Ludhiana boy #17754 that has been rescued from KISAN EXPRESS after a collision in Short Hood with a sand loaded truck on a mistakenly open railway crossing three days back near Bareilly.LP crew was the lucky one.Loco Still waiting for next t