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Schiedam train disaster

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Time
  
7.54 (CET)

Rail line
  
Hoekse Lijn

Date
  
4 May 1976

Country
  
Netherlands

Location
  
Near Schiedam

Injuries
  
several tens, 5 severe

Total number of deaths
  
24

Operator
  
Nederlandse Spoorwegen

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Cause
  
Error by the chief conductor and the driver of Stoptrein 4116, lack of ATB

Trains
  
D215 Rhine Express boat train Stoptrein 4116

The Schiedam train disaster took place in the Netherlands on 4 May 1976 near the station Schiedam Rotterdam-West. The international Rhine Express boat train (D-train D215) from Hook of Holland, which left for Munich and was hauled by NS Class 1300 electric locomotive no. 1311 Best collided with a train of the then new sprinter type, (trainset 2008 of Stoptrein 4116) coming from Rotterdam. The collision caused the deaths of 24 people (in the forward carriage of the 2008), 5 severe casualties and several tens of less severely injured.

The disaster was the second major train crash near Schiedam, following the first major train accident in the Netherlands, which happened on 10 August 1856 and caused 3 deaths.

Additional reading

  • (Dutch) Duin, Menno Joost van. (1992) Van rampen leren : een vergelijkend onderzoek naar de lessen uit spoorwegongevallen, hotelbranden en industriële ongelukken. The Hague: Haagse Drukkerij en Uitgeversmij. ISBN 90-71504-15-8.
  • (Dutch) Jongerius, R.T. (1993) Spoorwegongevallen in Nederland, 1839-1993. Haarlem: Schuyt & Co. Part 22 of the book range of the NVBS. ISBN 90-6097-341-0.

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