List of rail accidents (1960–1969)

This is a list of rail accidents from 1960 to 1969.

1960 January 7 – Italy – At Monza, an express from Sondrio to Milan failed to slow as it approaches a construction zone with a speed limit on the temporary track and derails on the sharp curve. One source says 30 people were killed and 70 injured; another says 17 killed and 120 injured. January 10 – United States – The New York Central Railroad's Southwest Limited from St. Louis to Cleveland, instead of slowing to pick up a train order at Wellington, Ohio, approached too fast in the fog and derailed. The signal tower was demolished, but the signalman was safely on the ground preparing to hand over the train order. Six people were killed and at least 40 injured. January 11 – United States – Nine people were injured after a Santa Fe Chief slammed into a stalled truck near Sanford, Texas. January 21 – United Kingdom – Settle rail crash: On an express passenger train from Glasgow to London, the driver heard a knocking sound on his BR Standard Class 7 steam locomotive and stopped, but could not identify the problem in a snowstorm at night. He decided to proceed cautiously to the next motive power depot, but before getting there, the engine's motion came apart and struck the tracks. The track damage derailed a freight train passing in the opposite direction; the derailed cars collided with the passenger train, killing five people and injuring nine. January 28 – United Kingdom – An electric multiple unit overran signals at Borough Market Junction, London and collided sidelong with a diesel-electric multiple unit. Another electric multiple unit collided with the derailed train. Seven people were injured. February 13 – Canada – On the CNR, the Super Continental, running 3 hours late, collided head-on with a 39-car freight train near Osawin, west of Hornepayne, Ontario. The passenger train's engineer was killed and 33 passengers and 4 railwaymen were injured. March 1 – United States – Bakersfield, California – The Chicago-bound San Francisco Chief collided with a fuel truck on Allen Road, just north of Rosedale Highway, killing 14: ten passengers, three crew members, and the driver of the truck. April 1 – United Kingdom – An electric multiple unit collided with a light engine between Loughborough Junction and due to a signalman's error. One person was killed and twelve were injured. May 15 – East Germany – Leipzig: Two local trains collided in Leipzig central station owing to a default in the electricity supply to the station which also affected the signalling and a following dispatcher error. Fifty-four people died, 200 were injured. July 8 – India – As a train crossed the Yamuna River bridge at Mathura in the North Eastern Railway zone with people riding on the roof, 25 of them were knocked off by the bridge superstructure and killed. July 12 – Argentina – Comodoro Rivadavia rail disaster – In Comodoro Rivadavia a passenger train suffered a brake failure, it lost control and crashed into another train at high speed. Three people died and many other were severely injured.1958-1962 EL PLAN LARKIN, 19 Sep 2021 July 28 – Cuba – Near Camagüey, a civilian train carrying militia from Oriente Province to Havana, reportedly suffering a brake failure, collided with the train ahead, a military passenger train also from Oriente to Havana. Several people were killed and 80 were injured. October 25 – United Kingdom – Severn Railway Bridge: 5 people killed and the railway bridge across the Severn destroyed when two barges hit it in fog. November 14 – Czechoslovakia – Stéblová train disaster: 118 people were killed and 110 injured in a head-on collision. November 21 – Netherlands – Woerden train disaster: A British train derailed at Woerden, killing two. Due to work on the track, a temporary speed limit of was posted with special signs, but the train was traveling at when it derailed. November 29 – Canada – Lamont, Alberta: A CN train collided with a school bus at a level crossing on the edge of town, killing 17 students.

1961 January 9 – Spain – Apparently due to a signaling fault, a Valencia-to-Barcelona express collided near Barcelona with a freight train, forming a pile of debris high and killing at least 21 people (including both drivers and a number of students) and injuring at least 50. Also on board was the Barcelona Espanyol soccer team, but the team suffered no injuries. January 31 – United States – After 18 cars of a Kansas City Southern freight train derailed near New Roads, Louisiana, a tank car of chlorine ruptured. About 1,000 people were evacuated from homes and schools. Of 50 taken to hospital, one baby boy died and six members of his family, as well as four others, were in critical condition. Many farm animals were also killed. February 8 – United Kingdom – A diesel multiple unit ran away and crashed through buffer stops and into houses at , Lancashire before catching fire. The driver was seriously injured. February 11 – United Kingdom – An express freight train derailed near Rugby, Warwickshire. The wagons fouled the adjacent line, and were run into by an express passenger train. A driver was killed after being trapped on the footplate and two passengers were injured. February 13 – United Kingdom – An express passenger train ran into a freight train at , Shropshire, killing three people. February 22 – Netherlands – A freight train and a passenger train collide at Geldrop, North Brabant. March 11 – Taiwan – 27 killed, 15 injured after a southbound passenger train (#3001 Diesel Limited Express) smashed into a truck carrying soldiers at a level crossing between Linfengyin and Longtien, Tainan.(Taiwan) United Daily News, Mar 12, 1961 March 20 – United Kingdom – A diesel-electric multiple unit and an electric multiple unit collided at , London after the latter's driver misread signals. Twelve people were injured. March 30 – Italy – A 7-car Rapido express train from Turin to Rome was destroyed by fire in a tunnel near Sestri Levante. At least five were killed and more than 70 injured. April 11 – United Kingdom – An electric multiple unit overran signals and crashed into another at Waterloo station, killing one person and injuring fourteen. April 19 – India – Sabotaged track derailed a passenger train at Siliguri, killing 23 people and injuring 77, 28 seriously. May 22 – United States – Arlington, Oregon: A Union Pacific freight train derailed, killing two people, sending twenty rail cars off the track, and catching on fire. June 13 – West Germany – On a section of temporary single-track working at Esslingen am Neckar, a local train ran past signals and collided head-on with another on an embankment, killing 35 people. July 8 – Taiwan – 48 were killed, 28 injured after a southbound passenger train (#11 Limited Express) smashed into a bus at a level crossing in Minxong, Chiayi County.(Taiwan) United Daily News, Jul 9, 1961 July 16 – United Kingdom – Singleton Bank rail crash: The 8:50 diesel multiple unit train from to collided with the rear of a ballast train at about near Weeton, Lancashire, England. Seven were killed (the driver and six passengers) and 116 were injured. October 5 – West Germany – In Hamburg, between the Hauptbahnhof and nearby Berliner Tor station, an S-Bahn train ran past signals and crashed into a work train loaded with girders, some of which crashed into the passenger cars; 28 people were killed and 55 injured. October 26 – Japan – On the Ōita Kōtsu company's line from Ōita to Beppu, a massive landslide derailed and buried a tramcar carrying 66 passengers; 32 people were killed and everyone else on board was injured. October 29 – India – A derailment due to excessive speed, between Mainpuri and Bhongaon, killed 22 people and injured 62. December 14 – United States – Auburn, Colorado – Greeley bus disaster: The Union Pacific passenger train "City of Denver" en route to Denver collided with a school bus carrying 36 children bound for Delta and Arlington elementary schools, Meeker Junior High, and Greeley High. Twenty of the children were killed.The Rocky Mountain News Retrieved January 26, 2007. December 23 – Italy – Fiumarella rail disaster: a Cosenza–Catanzaro train derailed on a bridge near Catanzaro. Seventy people died and 27 were injured. December 26 – United States – One person died and 38 people sustained non-life-threatening injuries after four cars of a train derailed while rounding the curve just north of York–Dauphin station, Philadelphia.

1962 January 8 – Netherlands – The Harmelen train disaster, the deadliest railway accident in the history of The Netherlands occurred after the Utrecht–Rotterdam express train driver missed a warning signal in fog and passed a red signal to collide nearly head-on with another passenger train from Rotterdam to Amsterdam. Ninety-one people (including both drivers) died on the scene, 54 were injured of whom two died in hospital. February 5 – United Kingdom – A passenger train met a rear-end collision with a freight train at Polmont, Stirlingshire due to a signalman's error, injuring five people. February 22 – Colombia – A passenger train from Buenaventura to Cali collided head-on on a single track, near its destination, with a freight train; 40 people were killed, all in the first 4 cars of the passenger train, and 67 injured. March 1 – East Germany – Trebbin rail accident: An express passenger train near Trebbin collided with a cannon barrel of a tank, which was being transported on a Soviet mixed military train, pushing the tank of its flatbed derailing the military train. Nearly 100 soldiers on the military train were killed, and one passenger died aboard the express train. March 3 – Italy – Castel Bolognese train disaster. The Bari–Milan train derailed while entering the station of Castel Bolognese, Ravenna, killing 13 and injuring 80. April 17 – Thailand – At Padang Besar, seven people were killed in a collision of two passenger trains. May 3 – Japan – Mikawashima train crash: A freight train passed a danger signal and was diverted safely into a siding at Mikawashima Station in Tokyo, but derailed at the end of it, fouling the adjacent track. A 6-car commuter train bound for Toride then crashed into the wreckage, and another train bound for Ueno crashed into the new wreckage as well as passengers trying to evacuate from the previous crash. Altogether 160 people were killed and 296 injured. May 10 – USSR – Two crowded commuter trains collided while one of them was stopped at a junction in the north part of Moscow. Foreign newspapermen and diplomats living nearby reported seeing scores of ambulances, but Soviet authorities tried to hush up the news. The accident occurred on National Railway Day. May 18 – United States – The Laurentian, a Delaware and Hudson passenger train traveling from Montreal to Albany derailed next to Waterford Rural Cemetery. A crewmember suffered serious wounds and died in hospital, and 7 passengers were injured. May 31 – Italy – Voghera train crash; a freight train collided with a passenger train at Voghera railway station, Lombardy, killing 63 and injuring 40. June 3 – United Kingdom – Lincoln rail crash: The Night Scotsman express passenger train derailed at Lincoln due to excessive speed on a curve, killing nine people and injuring 49. June 8 – India – At Bhilai, 11 coaches of a passenger train were blown over by wind during a cyclone, killing 9 people and injuring 123. June 11 – Argentina – Villa Soldati level crossing tragedy: 42 people were killed and 88 were injured after a bus was hit by an express train in Villa Soldati in southwest Buenos Aires. July 21 – India – A mail train from Amritsar to Howrah collided at Buxar with a freight train being shunted on the main line; reportedly, the signal operators fled the scene. At least 48 people were killed and 55 seriously injured.