1957 Gambar train crash

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Gambar Train Crash
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DateSeptember 29, 1957
Location Gambar Railway Station, Pakistan
Coordinates 30°45′00″N73°19′53″E / 30.7500°N 73.3315°E / 30.7500; 73.3315
Country Pakistan
Line Karachi–Peshawar main railway line
Operator Pakistan Railways
Incident type Train collision
Cause
  1. Lack of signals
  2. Allowing two trains into same occupied block section
Statistics
Trains2
Deaths300
Injured150

On September 29, 1957, a Karachi-bound express passenger train collided at full speed with a stationary oil-tanker train before midnight, at Gambar Railway Station. 300 people were killed and 150 wounded by the accident. [1] [2] [3]

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References

  1. "More Than 100 Killed In Rail Collision". The Canberra Times . Vol. 31, no. 9, 289. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 2 October 1957. p. 1. Retrieved 31 July 2016 via National Library of Australia.
  2. Haine, Edgar A. Railroad Wrecks. Associated University Presses. p. 178. ISBN   9780845348444 . Retrieved 10 October 2024 via Google Books.
  3. "Trains collide in Pakistan — History.com This Day in History — 9/29/1957". web.archive.org. 2010-03-07. Retrieved 2024-11-10.