List of German rail accidents

Frankfurt (Main) Central Station 1901

This list of German rail accidents contains those train wrecks which happened in Germany, including

• German states before 1871 (excluding Austria)
• German Reich
• Allied-occupied Germany
• Federal Republic of Germany
• German Democratic Republic

List

Accident	Date	Killed	Injured	Description
Rail accident of Gütersloh-Avenwedde [1]	21 January 1851	3	7	Derailment of a Long Boiler locomotive which caused passenger coaches to derail. One of the injured passengers was Prince Frederick of Prussia, later German Emperor.
Hugstetten rail disaster	3 September 1882	64	230	Track failure (after a strong thunderstorm) derailed the train. Improper track maintenance and overspeed are also mentioned.
Rail accident of Steglitz [2]	2 September 1883	39	?	A large crowd, out of control, crossed the main line to reach a departing local train. An express approaching on the main line ran into the crowd.
Rail accident of Hanau (1884) [3]	14 November 1884	22	26	After a rear-end collision of a passenger train into a freight train, the derailed vehicles also blocked the second track for trains moving in the opposite direction. An oncoming train on the second track hit the remains of the first accident.
Rail accident of Würzburg [4]	1 July 1886	16	70	The misunderstanding of two traffic controllers brings two trains onto the same track, resulting in a head-on collision.
Rail accident of Pelm [5]	18 May 1897	10	40	After the division of a running train, the rear part collided with the front part later on.
Rail accident of Mühlheim am Main [6]	8 November 1900	12	4	Rear-end collision under heavy fog; gas used for car-lighting caused a fire.
Rail accident of Ludwigshafen (1901) [7]	9 May 1901	1	2	Spectacular overrun of a buffer stop due to defective brakes
Rail accident of Frankfurt (1901) [8]	6 December 1901	0	0	Failing brakes caused the engine of the Eastend-Vienna-Express to overrun the buffer stop at Frankfurt Central station and smash a hole into the opposite wall, coming to a stop only in the waiting room of the station. Nobody was seriously hurt.
Rail accident of Altenbeken [9]	20 December 1901	12	27	Rear-end collision after signalling a “go ahead” to the following train too early.
Rail accident of Zschortau [10]	5 May 1902	2	7	Derailment after the breaking of an axle of the tender.
Rail accident of Rothenkirchen [11]	7 August 1903	3	30	Excessive speed threw a train out of a narrow curve.
Rail accident of Herbolzheim [12]	2 December 1903	1	?	Shunting engine in the way of an express which hit it
Rail accident of Primkenau [13]	15 August 1904	1	?	Sparks of a steam engine ignited a forest, burning down 46 square kilometers of it.
Rail accident of Schwegenheim [14]	25 May 1905	1	1	A construction train derailed after heavy braking.
Rail accident of Spremberg [15]	7 August 1905	19	40	A drunken train controller let two trains on the same track, causing a head-on collision.
Rail accident of Rabishau [16]	31 October 1906	0	2	Two cargo trains collided at Rabishau on the Silesian Mountain Railway.
Rail accident of Züllichau [17]	28 October 1909	4	0	First documented level crossing crash between a train and a motor car.
Rail accident of Müllheim [18]	17 July 1911	11	32	Drunken engineer falls asleep, passes a speed limit with excessive speed, which causes the train to derail.
Rail accident of Waldenburg [19]	22 October 1913	14	?	A runaway freight car collided with a tram on a level crossing.
Rail accident of Braunsdorf [20]	14 December 1913	10	53	After a landslide the exit of a tunnel was blocked. A passenger train passing through the tunnel rammed itself into the rocks.
Rail accident of Nannhofen [21]	17 April 1917	30	80	Express overran a stop signal and crashed into the passenger carriages of a shunting mixed train.
Rail accident of Schönhausen [22]	16 October 1917	26	16	Passenger train passed a red signal and collided with the rear-end of a freight train.
Rail accident of Dresden-Neustadt [23]	22 September 1918	18	118	An overrun red signal led to a rear-end crash of two express trains.
Rail accident of Briesen (Mark) [24]	1 November 1918	19	45	After the division of a freight train, a following passenger train crashed into the cars that the freight train had left behind.
Rail accident of Kranowitz [25]	24 October 1919	25+	80+	A freight train stopped within the loading gauge of an adjacent track. So it was hit by an oncoming passenger train from Czechoslovakia. Smuggled alcohol was set on fire and exploded. The train partially burned out.
Rail accident of Silberhausen [26]	16 December 1920	17	9	A mixed train got out of control on a steep incline, overran a buffer stop and tumbled 20 meters down a slope. The heavy freight-cars loaded with minerals buried the two passenger coaches.
Rail accident of Berlin (1922) [27]	27 June 1922	45	50?	During a strike, passengers rode the overcrowded trains also on the footboard of the coaches. A long pole sticking out of the rucksack of one of them strikes dozens of passengers on a passing second train, causing them to fall off.
Rail accident of Kreiensen [28]	31 July 1923	48	39	An express overrunning a red signal crashed into another express which stood in the station due to a defective locomotive. Gerhard Domagk, winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1939, travelled in one of the totally destroyed coaches and escaped just by chance: He had left the train to get something to drink in the station.
Rail accident of Stuttgart-Untertürkheim [29]	15 November 1923	12	15	Engineer misreading a signal ran into a track on which another train was approaching. This led to a head-on collision.
Rail accident of Ludwigsstadt [30]	18 February 1924	2	0	After malfunction of the brakes, a freight train ran with excessive speed over a point securing a building site. The locomotive and 21 of the cars tumbled from the Trogenbach Viadukt, a bridge 26 meters high partly on top of buildings situated at the foot of the bridge. A part of the train was consumed in the following fire.
Rail accident of Mainz [31]	24 October 1924	14	?	Due to interference of the French military with the automatic train protection and a “go ahead” given too early, a passenger train collided with the rear end of another train within a tunnel situated south of Mainz Central Station.
Rail accident of Herne [32]	13 January 1925	24	91	Due to a faultily installed train protection, a rear-end collision of two trains happened.
Rail accident of Rabishau, Schlesien [33] [34]	9 August 1925	3	2	Two cargo trains collided in dense fog near the Rabishau station on the Silesian Mountain Railway. An electric locomotive and 59 cargo cars were damaged. Twelve rail cars were destroyed.
Rail accident of Langenbach [35]	13 August 1926	12	20	Badly secured building site led to the derailment of a train.
Attack on express D 8 at Leiferde [36]	19 August 1926	21	40	Two criminals intending to rob a mail-coach damaged the track. Express D 8 from Berlin to Cologne derailed.
Rail accident of Siegelsdorf [37]	10 June 1928	24	128	Derailment caused by added multiple causes
Rail accident of Munich (1928) [38]	15 July 1928	10	25	Due to a misunderstanding between traffic controllers, two passenger trains had a rear-end collision when leaving München Hauptbahnhof. A third train could just stop before running into the debris. Still lighted by petroleum, the mainly wooden cars caught fire.
Rail accident of Dinkelscherben [39]	31 July 1928	23	51	Passenger train ran into a freight train. The accident was caused by defective train protection due to work in progress.
Rail accident of Kerpen-Buir [40]	25 August 1929	14	103	An express negotiated a low speed turnout at 100 km/h instead of 40 km/h and derailed.
Rail accident of Großheringen [41]	24 December 1935	34	27	Express overran a red signal and crashed into the side of another passenger train.
Rail accident of Holzheim [42]	15 September 1937	17	35	On a building site, the “slow down” signal was not installed. So a train passed on too high a speed and derailed.
Rail accident of Bauerwitz [43]	12 November 1939	43	77	By a mistake of a traffic controller, two trains entered the same section of a single-track line and collided head-on.
Genthin rail disaster	22 December 1939	186	106	Rear-end collision of two express trains after overrunning a red signal
Rail accident of Markdorf [44]	22 December 1939	101	47	Mistake of a traffic controller led to a head-on collision of a passenger train and a freight train.
Rail accident of Gifhorn [45]	22 January 1941	122	80	Rear-end collision of a freight train overrunning a red signal and running into a train which transported about 1,000 prisoners of war.
Rail accident of Leichholz [46]	27 December 1941	44	67	After the division of a freight train transporting petrol, a following express collided with those cars of the freight train which were disconnected. The collision caused an explosion of the petrol.
Rail accident of Halbstadt [47]	8 June 1943	3	0	Head-on collision with a steam engine and derailment of a cargo train at Halbstadt on the Silesian Mountain Railway. In the aftermath, the E91-96 electric locomotive had to be written off.
Rail accident of Porta Westfalica [48]	20 January 1944	79	64+	Rear-end collision after signalling a “go ahead” to the following train too early.
Rail accident of Lichtenau. [49]	24 October 1944	?	?	During the Lichtenau train accident on the Silesian Mountain Railway, the D 192 Breslau – Berlin collided head-on with an electric suburban train at the Lichtenau Station. The electric locomotive of the D 192, E18-15 (from Bw Hirschberg), suffered total damage in the accident and was scrapped on site.
Rail accident of Verne [50]	31 March 1945	7+	?	Rear-end collision of two trains not using any train protection which was not working due to destruction by war activities in the last days of World War II.
Rail accident of Munich (1945) [51]	8 May 1945	11	?	Explosion of ammunition train
Rail accident of Aßling [52]	16 July 1945	102+	?	Due to faulty signalling and a poor decision by a traffic controller, a freight train hit a passenger train which had stopped after a technical default.
Rail accident of Neddemin [53]	4 December 1945	38	68	Head-on collision of two passenger trains due to a dismantled train protection system and a mistake by the train controller.
Rail accident of Eisleben (1946) [54]	16 April 1946	24	39	Train running on orders of Soviet occupying forces under the Soviet Military Administration in Germany but outside the rules securing movements of trains. This caused a rear-end collision of the train into a passenger train.
Rail accident of Neuwied [55]	22 December 1947	42	116	Defective signalling due to shortages in the post-war erea caused a head-on collision of two express trains.
1948 BASF tank car explosion, Ludwigshafen [56]	28 July 1948	207	3818	A tank car, loaded with Dimethyl ether and parked within the industrial complex of BASF, had a leakage and exploded, releasing other chemicals. Most of the injured suffered from poisonous gases.
Rail accident in the Kaiser Wilhelm Tunnel [57]	22 November 1948	0	2	After a coal dust explosion on the steam engine of the express from Paris to Koblenz within Kaiser Wilhelm Tunnel, then the longest railway tunnel of Germany, the engineer managed to run the train out of the tunnel with the burning engine – not a single passenger was injured.
Boiler explosion of Meiningen [58]	4 May 1951	11	11	During repairs on a steam engine in Meiningen Steam Locomotive Works, the boiler was not supervised properly and exploded.
Rail accident of Kenn [59]	10 June 1951	15	33	Level crossing accident
Rail accident of Herrsching [60]	19 June 1951	16	7	By mistake of a train controller, two trains moved on the same track, leading to a head-on collision.
Rail accident of Walpertskirchen [61]	8 November 1951	16	41	The station master of this little station, all on his own and occupied by multiple tasks, erroneously let two trains, coming from opposite directions, into his station on the same track. This resulted in a head-on collision.
Rail accident of Hanau (1954) [62]	27 April 1954	4	97	A regional train passed a red signal and hit into the side of the passing Scandinavia Express.
Rail accident of Worms-Abenheim [63]	24 July 1954	25	?	Level crossing accident
Rail accident of Liebschützberg-Bornitz [64]	25 February 1956	43	55	Shunting freight train crashed into the side of a passing express.
Rail accident of Drachenfels [65]	14 September 1958	18	112	Faulty braking of a descending train on the Drachenfels Railway, a rack railway, resulted in excessive speed and derailment.
Lauffen bus crash	20 June 1959	45	25	After the barrier of a level crossing was not closed properly, a train hit a bus.
Rail accident of Leipzig [66]	15 May 1960	54	240	To get a train over a blocked signal, workers at a signal box handed a written order to the engineer of the train, but forgot to put the points right. This led the train onto a wrong track on which another train was approaching, resulting in a head-on collision.
Rail accident of Esslingen am Neckar [67]	13 June 1961	35	36	Head-on collision of two trains after one of the drivers ignored a red signal.
Rail accident of Hamburg (1961) [68]	5 October 1961	28	55	A train controller erroneously guided a suburban train onto a track blocked by a maintenance train, which led to a collision.
Rail accident of Trebbin [69]	1 March 1962	70?	?	The tank turret of a Soviet army tank transported on a train came loose, and its gun smashed into an oncoming express passing on the parallel track.
Rail accident of Langhagen [70]	1 November 1964	44	70	After the derailment of a freight train, a passing express ran into the debris of the first accident.
Rail accident of Lampertheim [71]	12 August 1965	4	45	A freight train was pulled out of the main line to be overtaken by a following Trans Europ Express. But the last car of the freight train did not clear the loading gauge completely. The Express hit the car, and its locomotive and all the cars derailed and were badly damaged.
Langenweddingen level crossing disaster	6 July 1967	94+	?	Level crossing accident: A passenger train hits a truck with a load of petrol which exploded. The train burned out.
Rail accident of Hanover-Linden [72]	22 June 1969	12	30	Explosion of a freight car loaded with ammunition.
Rail accident of Aitrang [73]	9 February 1971	28	42	A Trans Europ Express derailed in a curve due to excessive speed. A railbus, approaching from the opposite direction, crashed into the wreckage.
Dahlerau train disaster	27 May 1971	46	25	A freight train and a passenger train collided head-on after a misunderstanding between a traffic controller and an engineer.
Rail accident of Rheinweiler [74]	21 July 1971	25	121	Engineer probably got incapacitated (he died in the accident) and the train derailed with excessive speed in a narrow curve.
Rail accident of Ingolstadt [75]	2 March 1972	3	0	Rear-end crash of two freight trains, the front one loaded with oil, resulted in a blaze and large material damage.
Rail accident of Neukirchen-Schweinsburg-Culten [76]	30 October 1972	28	70	Train passing a red signal led to a head-on collision of two express trains.
Rail accident of Baunatal-Guntershausen [77]	5 November 1973	14	65	Due to wet autumn weather the rails were covered with moisture, dirt and wet leaves. This caused such a bad braking performance that a train collided rear-end with another train standing.
Rail accident of Munich (1975) [78]	7 March 1975	12	5	Level crossing accident
Rail accident of Warngau [79]	8 June 1975	41	122	The misunderstanding of two traffic controllers and the nonexistence of technical train protection led to the head-on collision of two trains.
Rail accident of Hamburg (1975) [80]	22 July 1975	11	125	Red signal overrun
Lebus train collision [81]	27 June 1977	31	7	Due to works re-signalling the station of Booßen, the point to the branch line to Frankfurt (Oder) was without any connection to the technical installations providing train protection and had to be handled manually. The person in charge of this erroneously switched it into the wrong direction, which led to the head-on collision of two trains.
Boiler explosion of Bitterfeld [82]	27 November 1977	9	45	Last explosion of a steam engine boiler in Germany.
Rail accident of Erfurt-Bischleben [83]	11 June 1981	14	102	Derailment of an express due to distortion of the track.
Rail accident of Heilbronn [84]	12 August 1984	3	57	Excessive speed when crossing a point resulted in a derailment
Rail accident of Empelde [85]	20 March 1985	0	0	Crash of two freight-trains. Explosion of several tank-cars loaded with petrol.
Forst Zinna rail disaster [86]	19 January 1988	6	33	A Russian army tank ran onto a rail track and was hit by an express.
Rail accident in Heiligenberg Tunnel, Kaiserslautern [87]	28 June 1988	1	38	A freight train derailed after running into a landslide in the entrance of Heiligenberg Tunnel, its locomotive standing in the loading gauge of the track for trains running in opposite direction. There, a passenger train hit it and derailed, too.
Rüsselsheim train disaster [88]	2 February 1990	17	145	An S-Bahn suburban service overran a red signal, leading to a head-on collision with an oncoming train.
Rail accident of Northeim [89]	15 November 1992	11	51	A buffer fell from a freight train, causing 14 cars to derail, some of them standing within the loading gauge of the rail for trains coming from the opposite direction. The express from Copenhagen to Innsbruck ran into these cars.
Rail accident of Holthusen [90]	31 December 1992	1	9	Due to a mistake by a traffic controller, a shunting engine came in the way of an approaching express train, followed by a collision.
Rail accident of Berlin (1993) [91]	9 April 1993	3	49	Wrongly set points led to a head-on collision.
Rail accident of Bad Bramstedt [92]	29 September 1994	6	80	A DMU entered a single-track line without permission and collided with an oncoming one.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen train collision	12 December 1995	1	51	A passenger train overran a stop-signal and crashed into the Glass Train, an EMU for sightseeing purposes, very famous with railway enthusiasts. It was the last of two of these vehicles and damaged beyond repair in this accident.
Rail accident of Schönebeck [93]	1 June 1996	0	18	A train transporting vinyl chloride in 18 tank cars derailed on an outworn point. One of the cars topped another, hitting the overhead wires with a voltage of 15,000. This caused an explosion of the vinyl chloride in this car, and four more cars caught fire. It was one of the worst rail accidents in Germany involving hazardous goods. [94]
Rail accident of Frankfurt am Main (1997) [95]	19 February 1997	0	0	Mix-up of two neighbouring signals by an engineer at the station of Frankfurt (Main) Süd which is placed in the inner city of Frankfurt. This caused the collision of two freight trains followed by the explosion of a car carrying petrol. A similar accident had happened in 1996 at this location, but without serious consequences.
Rail accident of Neustadt, Hessen [96]	5 July 1997	6	14	Loose steel pipes rolling off a passing freight train hit an oncoming passenger service.
Elsterwerda train disaster [97]	20 November 1997	2	8	Inactive brakes of a freight train loaded with petrol led to a derailment, followed by a vast explosion causing widespread damage.
Rail accident of Hanover-Anderten [98]	9 December 1997	0	51	A freight train overran a red signal and crashed head-on into an oncoming passenger train. Some of the derailed cargo cars loaded with diesel fuel ignited.
Eschede train disaster	3 June 1998	101	194	An ICE high-speed train derailed after a fatigue crack in one wheel and crashed into a road bridge. It remains the worst rail disaster in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Suspension railway accident of Wuppertal [99]	12 April 1999	5	47	Workers forgot to remove a metal claw from the track on completion of scheduled night work. The first train of the day hit the claw, derailed and fell about 10 metres into the river Wupper.
Brühl train derailment	6 February 2000	9	149	A train negotiated a low speed turnout at three times the correct speed and derailed.
Rail accident of Garmisch-Partenkirchen (2000) [100]	10 June 2000	0	59	A misunderstanding between two traffic controllers led to the head-on collision of two trains of the Bavarian Zugspitze Railway, a rack-railway, within a tunnel.
Vilseck level crossing accidents [101] [102]	22 June 2001	4+3	16+19	At a level crossing in Dillingen, a train crashed into a car and derailed. The 4 people in the car died and 16 people on the train suffered minor injuries. Hours earlier, 2 German troops and a U.S soldier were killed, and another soldier was seriously injured when a train coming from Weiden struck their army truck. 18 people on the train suffered minor injuries.
Rail accident of Bad Münder [103]	9 September 2002	0	2	Head-on collision of two freight trains due to a disconnected braking pipe on one of the trains. 40.000 litres of highly inflammable and carcinogen Epichlorohydrin were released.
Rail accident of Schrozberg [104]	11 June 2003	6	25	Mistakes of two traffic controllers, combined with faulty signalling equipment, caused a head-on collision of two passenger trains.
Lathen train collision	22 September 2006	23	10	The Transrapid, an experimental maglev train, crashed into a maintenance vehicle. This was the first serious accident with a maglev train worldwide.
Rail accident in Landrücken Tunnel [105]	26 April 2008	0	34	An Intercity-Express (ICE) hit a herd of sheep at 210 km/h in Landrücken Tunnel (longest tunnel of German Railways) and derailed.
Friedewald train collision	12 September 2009	0	120	Collision of two steam-hauled narrow-gauge museum trains. One had left a station without permission.
Train derailment and collision in Peine on Hanover–Brunswick railway [106]	16 June 2010	0	20	A wheel tire of the 10th car of a freight train (two engines and 49 freight cars) got loose, so this car and the following eight derailed, some obstructing the parallel track. A Regional Express passenger train (engine and five double-deck cars) from the opposite direction hit the freight cars after a short time. The RE's leading three vehicles derailed, and the first two fell on their sides. The freight train had been stopped earlier due to observation of sparks, but the reason was not found, so the train continued. The damage was estimated at €5,360,500. [107]
Hordorf train collision	29 January 2011	10	100	A freight train overran a red signal and collided head-on with a DMU. The freight train's driver failed to react on the distant and the main signal in foggy conditions, and there was no PZB safety system installed (on the infrastructure) that would have stopped the train in time.
2012 Stuttgart derailments	24 July 2012, also 29 September 2012 and 10 October 2012	0	8	Three InterCity trains derailed in Stuttgart Hbf, Germany, at the same place and for the same reasons.
Rail accident of Hosena [108]	26 July 2012	1	2	Non-functioning brakes on a freight train loaded with gravel let it pass two signals at danger and subsequently to a side-on collision with another freight train. In the resulting crash, one of the signal boxes of Hosena station was completely destroyed.
Mannheim train collision	1 August 2014	0	39	Inside of Mannheim main station, a freight train passed a main signal at danger (red "halt" aspect) and was stopped by the PZB safety system. Instead of asking for permission to proceed, the driver restarted the train on his own, then passed two more signals (not guarded by PZB) at danger, so his train hit the side of a EuroCity long distance train.
Ibbenbüren train collision	16 May 2015	2	41	A WestfalenBahn passenger train travelling from Osnabrück was in collision with a tractor and trailer that were obstructing a level crossing at Ibbenbüren
Bad Aibling rail accident	9 February 2016	12	85	Two regional trains hit each other head-on on the bend on the Mangfall Valley Railway. The traffic controller was distracted by a smartphone online game, violated safety procedures and ordered the driver of one of the trains to override safety mechanisms.
Munich Hackerbrücke rail accident [109]	22 November 2019	0	1	Two wagons have derailed shortly after leaving the Munich train station. Approximately 100 passengers were evacuated, one person was slightly injured. The cause of the derailment is still being investigated.
Ebenhausen-Schäftlarn rail accident [110]	14 February 2022	1	57	On a single-track section of the Munich S-Bahn, a train departed from a station against a red signal and passed it at danger. Despite being tripped by the PZB, the driver restarted his train and subsequently collided head-on with an oncoming train.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen derailment	3 June 2022	5	68	Double-decker regional train derailed on a curved embankment, north of Garmisch-Partenkirchen station, near Burgrain  [ de ]. [111]
Ahrensfelde train fire	2 November 2024	0	0	For an unknown reason, a diesel rail car starts burning in the Ahrensfelde train station in Berlin. However, no injuries have been reported. Officials have temporarily suspended rail traffic, and have not estimated, when it will resume. [112]

References

1. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Avenwedde
2. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Steglitz
3. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Hanau 1884
4. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Würzburg
5. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Pelm
6. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Mühlheim am Main 1900
7. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Ludwigshafen (1901)
8. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall im Centralbahnhof Frankfurt
9. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Altenbeken
10. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Zschortau
11. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Rothenkirchen
12. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Herbolzheim
13. See German WP: Waldbrand im PrimkenauerForst
14. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall bei Schwegenheim
15. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Spremberg
16. https://polska-org.pl/4770256,foto.html?idEntity=543333
17. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Züllichau
18. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Müllheim
19. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Waldenburg
20. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Braunsdorf
21. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Nannhofen
22. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Schöhausen
23. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Dresden-Neustadt
24. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Briesen
25. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Kranowitz
26. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Silberhausen
27. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Berlin Schönhauser Allee
28. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Kreiensen
29. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Untertürkheim
30. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Ludwigsstadt
31. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Mainz
32. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Herne
33. Der Wanderer im Riesengebirge, 1925, Nr 9, pp. 200.
34. https://polska-org.pl/5788116,foto.html?idEntity=543333
35. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Langenbach
36. See German WP: Eisenbahn-Attentat bei Leiferde
37. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Siegelsdorf
38. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall an der Donnersbergerbrücke
39. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Dinkelscherben
40. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Buir
41. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Großheringen
42. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Holzheim
43. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Bauerwitz
44. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall bei Markdorf
45. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Gifhorn
46. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Leichholz
47. Peter Glanert, Thomas Borbe, Wolfgang-D. Richter. 2015. Reichsbahn-Elloks in Schlesien: Entwicklung, Einsatz und Verbleib von 1909 bis heute. Verlagsgruppe Bahn. ISBN 978-3969681084. p.73
48. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall an der Porta Westfalica
49. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_von_Eisenbahnunf%C3%A4llen_in_Deutschland
50. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Verne
51. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Berg am Laim
52. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Aßling
53. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Neddemin
54. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Eisleben (1946)
55. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Neuwied
56. See German WP: Kesselwagenexplosion in der BASF
57. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall im Kaiser-Wilhelm-Tunnel (1948)
58. See German WP: Kesselzerknall in Meiningen
59. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Kenn
60. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Herrsching
61. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Walpertskirchen
62. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Hanau 1954
63. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Abenheim
64. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Bornitz
65. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall vom Drachenfels
66. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Leipzig
67. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Esslingen
68. See German WP: S-Bahn-Unfall am Berliner Tor
69. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Trebbin
70. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Langhagen
71. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Lampertheim
72. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Linden
73. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Aitrang
74. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Rheinweiler
75. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Ingolstadt
76. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Schweinsburg-Culten
77. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Guntershausen
78. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von München-Allach
79. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Warngau
80. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Hamburg-Hausbruch
81. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Lebus
82. See German WP: Kesselzerknall in Bitterfeld
83. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Erfurt-Bischleben
84. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Heilbronn
85. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Empelde
86. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Forst Zinna
87. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall im Heiligenberg-Tunnel
88. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Rüsselsheim
89. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Northeim
90. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Holthusen
91. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Berlin-Wannsee
92. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Bad Bramstedt
93. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Schönebeck (1996)
94. "Vor 20 Jahren: Giftwolke bedroht Schönebeck" [20 years ago: poison cloud endangers Schönebeck] (in German). Volksstimme. 31 May 2016. Retrieved 17 February 2017.
95. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfälle in Frankfurt (Main) Süd
96. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Neustadt (Hessen)
97. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Elsterwerda
98. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Hannover-Anderten
99. See German WP: Schwebebahnunfall in Wuppertal 1999
100. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall im Katzenstein-Tunnel
101. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Vilseck
102. "CNN.com - Seven die in German rail crashes - June 22, 2001". 2022-04-17. Archived from the original on 17 April 2022. Retrieved 2022-04-17.
103. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Bad Münder
104. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Schrozberg
105. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall im Landrückentunnel
106. See German WP: de:Bahnstrecke Hannover–Braunschweig#Unfall von Peine-Horst
107. "Untersuchungsbericht der Eisenbahn-Unfalluntersuchungsstelle des Bundes: Zugentgleisung in Peine" [Investigation report of the EUB: train derailment in Peine](PDF) (in German). EUB. 4 November 2013. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
108. See German WP: Eisenbahnunfall von Hosena
109. "Bundespolizeidirektion München: Bahnbetriebsunfall nahe an der Hackerbrücke: Ersatzzug, der für Meridian fährt, entgleist" [Federal Police Management Munich: Railway accident close to the Hackerbrücke: Replacement train driving for Meridian derailed] (in German). Federal Police (Germany). 22 November 2019. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
110. See German WP: de:Eisenbahnunfall von Ebenhausen-Schäftlarn
111. "Tote und Schwerverletzte bei Zugunglück". Tagesschau . 2022-06-03. Retrieved 2022-06-03. Zugunglück im oberbayerischen Landkreis Garmisch-Partenkirchen sind laut Polizei mindestens drei Menschen ums Leben gekommen. Zudem würden insgesamt 60 Personen mit Verletzungen behandelt, 16 davon mit schweren … Der vollbesetzte Zug war von Garmisch in Richtung München unterwegs und entgleiste bei Burgrain.
112. "Germany: Authorities responding to fire burning on rail car at Ahrensfelde Station in Berlin late Nov. 2". Germany: Authorities responding to fire burning on rail car at Ahrensfelde Station in Berlin late Nov. 2 | Crisis24. Retrieved 2024-11-03.