Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/November 14
- November 14
- 1824 – James Mitchell Ashley, founder and president of Ann Arbor Railroad, is born (d. 1896).
- 1832 – Charles Carroll of Carrollton (pictured), signer of the Declaration of Independence and a co-founder of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, dies (b. 1737).
- 1960 – A steam locomotive-hauled passenger train incorrectly departs from a station and runs into a diesel locomotive-powered freight train in northeastern Bohemia, Czechoslovakia. See: Stéblová train disaster.
- 2015 – A test TGV train traveling eastbound on the LGV Est high-speed rail line derails as it enters a curve at 265 km/h (165 mph) in Eckwersheim, killing eleven crew and injuring 42 others.[1][2][3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "France TGV crash: Children on board derailed train". BBC News Online. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
- ^ Bach, Christian; Poivret, Aurélien (14 November 2015). "Accident de la rame d'essai de TGV : 10 morts, douze blessés dans un état grave, cinq personnes recherchées, numéro vert mis en place". Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace (in French).
- ^ SNCF - Direction générale de l'audit et des risques, Direction des audits de sécurité (19 November 2015). Rapport d'enquête immediate n° 2015-AS-67: Déraillement du train d’essai n°814521 sur le raccordement de Vendenheim de la LGV EE en construction le 14 novembre 2015 [Urgent Inquiry Report No. 2015-AS-67: Derailment of Test Train No.814521 on the Vendenheim Junction of the Under-Construction LGV EE on 14 November 2015] (PDF) (Report) (in French). Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 November 2015.