The Harmelen train disaster, on 8 January 1962, was the worst railway accident in the history of the Netherlands. Harmelen, in the central Netherlands...
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train station was opened on 21 May 1855 and closed on 15 May 1936. In 1962, two passenger trains collided near Harmelen. The Harmelen train disaster,...
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train disaster in Dutch railway history until the 1962 Harmelen train disaster. The 102 train from Amersfoort to Amsterdam derailed near the railway bridge...
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Automatische treinbeïnvloeding (category Train protection systems)
('Automatic train control') is a Dutch train protection system first developed in the 1950s. Its installation was spurred by the Harmelen train disaster of 1962...
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A signal passed at danger (SPAD): 75 is an event on a railway where a train passes a stop signal without authority. This is also known as running a red...
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examples are counted. Near Harmelen. Before conversion to a flying junction, this was the site of the Harmelen train disaster. At Breukelen railway station...
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the closing decades of the twentieth century growing numbers of stopping trains at the station and a sustained rise in the level of motorised traffic led...
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a train derailed while rounding the curve just north of York–Dauphin station, Philadelphia.[citation needed] January 8 – Netherlands – The Harmelen train...
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station Woerden train accident (November 1960), an accident with a British furlough train (2 deaths, 10 injured) Harmelen train disaster (January 1962)...
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List of rail accidents in the Netherlands (redirect from Netherlands train crash)
of the disaster, a study of soil mechanics was undertaken at the Delft University of Technology. January 8, 1962 – The Harmelen train disaster, the deadliest...
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driverless train. January 8 – The Harmelen train disaster, the worst railway accident in the history of the Netherlands, occurs when one passenger train driver...
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The Castel Bolognese train disaster was a major accident that occurred on 8 March 1962, in the Castel Bolognese railway station, near Ravenna, in Italy...
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with Catholic churches in Cuba. January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the worst Dutch rail disaster. January 9 – Cuba and the Soviet Union sign...
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officers. In the Harmelen train disaster, two trains collided, killing 91 people in the worst rail crash in Netherlands history. An express train running from...
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The Mikawashima train crash (三河島事故, Mikawashima jiko) was a multiple train crash which occurred on 3 May 1962 near Mikawashima Station in Arakawa, Tokyo...
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A train crash near Weesp, Netherlands killed 41 people and injured 42 others, the largest train disaster in Dutch history until the Harmelen train disaster...
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level crossing disaster occurred on the morning of June 11, 1962 in the Villa Soldati neighborhood of Buenos Aires, when, in dense fog, a train struck a municipal...
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The Voghera train crash is considered one of the most serious incidents in the history of the Italian railways. It happened at track three of Voghera...
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