What the records say
- When
- 3 Mar 1944
- Kind
- Rail accident
- Coordinates
- 40.67° N, 15.50° E
- Description
- train wreck
- Deaths
- 517
Balvano train disaster
Deadliest railway accident in Italian history, in 1944
The Balvano train disaster occurred on the night between 2–3 March 1944 in Balvano, Basilicata, when 517 people in a steam-hauled, coal-burning freight train died of carbon monoxide poisoning during a protracted stall in a tunnel. It was the deadliest railway accident in Italian history and one of the worst railway disasters ever.
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