A passenger train travelling between Mansi and Saharsa, India, jumps the tracks at a bridge crossing the Bagmati river. The government places the official death toll at 268 plus another 300 missing; however, it is generally believed that the actual figure is closer to 1,000 killed.
The Queen of the Sea (Sinhala: Samudradevi) was a train operating between Colombo, Sri Lanka, and the southern resort town of Galle.
At this point in its journey, the train was overwhelmed by a tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, estimated to be 6m high.
According to the Sri Lankan authorities, only a few dozen people on the train survived, making this by far the world's worst railway accident (the previous record being a 1981 accident in Bihar, India, when about 800 people were killed when a train was blown off a bridge by a cyclone).
November 16, 1960 – Stéblová traindisaster, Czechoslovakia: 118 are killed and 110 injured in a head-on collision.
January 8, 1962 – Harmelen, The Netherlands: The Harmelen traindisaster, the worst railway accident in the history of The Netherlands, occurs when one passenger train driver misses a warning signal in fog and passes a red signal to collide nearly head-on with another passenger train.
June 1970 – Oslo, Norway: A train from Skien collides with a shunting locomotive at Lysaker.
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