Dahlerau train disaster
1971 railway accident in Dahlerau, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Dahlerau train disaster was a railway accident that occurred on May 27, 1971, in Dahlerau, a small town in Radevormwald, West Germany, in which a freight train and a passenger train collided head-on. Forty-six people perished in the accident; forty-one were senior year pupils of the Geschwister-Scholl-Schule in Radevormwald.[1] It was the deadliest accident in West Germany since its foundation in 1949, surpassed after German reunification by the Eschede train disaster in 1998.
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Date | May 27, 1971 |
Location | Dahlerau, Radevormwald, Oberbergischer Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia |
Country | West Germany |
Line | Wupper Valley Railway [de] |
Operator | Deutsche Bundesbahn |
Incident type | Collision |
Cause | Not determined |
Statistics | |
Trains | 2 |
Deaths | 46 |
Injured | 25 |
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