Right on the Platform: Train Crashes at Stations
Train accidents are always terrifying. But they're doubly terrifying when they occur literally on the platform, in front of a busy station, or during rush hour at a commuter train stop. Here are the most notorious such accidents and derailments. The criteria for inclusion are: the accident or disaster occurs at a terminal station, near the platform of a transit station, or at a stop, involving passenger trains or commuter trains. Montparnasse in Paris, the Baltic Station accident in St. Petersburg, the collision of two electric trains at the Baltic Station in Tallinn, the Golitsino station disaster on Sunday, May 1, 1888, the Kryzhovka derailment, the platform disaster on February 6, 1899 in Brussels, the Ramses station disaster in Cairo, the Koristovka derailment, the Buenos Aires terminal station disaster, the Saint-Mandé derailment on July 26, 1891, the Gare de Lyon derailment, the Lamenskaya station derailment, the Minino station derailment, the Kamenskaya station tragedy, the Harrow and Wealdstone station derailment in London