Accidents and Derailments
Pictures of derailments and accidents
Album: Container derailment near Asavali on Central Railway near Igatpuri.
Album: Derailment at Thinaighat
Pictures of derailment and rescue operation at Thinaighat.
Album: Neral Matheran line Monsoon Damage Photos by Pawan Koppa
Album: Derailment - SK Collection.
Derailment pictures from SK.
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
Album: The Matsyagandha Disaster
2004-06-27
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
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
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
Soil wash out due to flood between Barbatpur (BBTR) - Dhodra Mohar (DOH) stations of Nagpur (NGP) - Itasri (ET) section of Central Railway on 2013.08.23 (Sunil Kumar)
Soil wash out due to flood between Barbatpur (BBTR) - Dhodra Mohar (DOH) stations of Nagpur (NGP) - Itasri (ET) section of Central Railway on 2013.08.23 (Sunil Kumar)
Soil wash out due to flood between Barbatpur (BBTR) - Dhodra Mohar (DOH) stations of Nagpur (NGP) - Itasri (ET) section of Central Railway on 2013.08.23 (Sunil Kumar)
Soil wash out due to flood between Barbatpur (BBTR) - Dhodra Mohar (DOH) stations of Nagpur (NGP) - Itasri (ET) section of Central Railway on 2013.08.23 (Sunil Kumar)
Loco dashed with another freight causing buffer & working
cab-2 damage. Loco arrived at Freight Shed BSL on date 26.01.13 & Planned to send to ELW/BSL for repair work." Note the buffer which has actually been replaced with a new one so that
Severely damaged in an accident,its innards have also been mostly gutted.Loco is planned to Electric Locomotive Workshop, BSL for rehabilitation. (Khalid Kagzi)
The unfortunate accident of 2301 Howrah Rajdhani in the year 2002 at Rafiganj, near Gaya. Look at the coaches which hang from the bridge. Photo from Dainik Jagran. (Debatra Mazumdar)
The unfortunate accident of 2301 Howrah Rajdhani in the year 2002 at Rafiganj, near Gaya. The photo has been taken from the Hindi newspaper, Dainik Jagran in year 2002. (Debatra Mazumdar)
The wreckage of the Rameswaram-Dhanushkodi passenger train, which was hit by the cyclone and tidal waves that struck the area on Dec. 22, lies half submerged here. More than 115 people died in the area-wide calamity 1964.12.31 (UPI Radiophoto)
WAM4 21352 of Arakkonam (AJJ) loco shed which was damaged on 2012.02.24 in an accident with a Tractor Trolley loaded with cement blocks at an unmanned level crossing gate no. 31 between Rachagunneri (RCG) - Sri Kalahasti (KHT) station of South Central Rai