What the records say
- When
- 22 Apr 1911
- Kind
- Rail accident
- Coordinates
- 33.36° S, 26.72° E
- Description
- 1911 railway incident in South Africa
- Deaths
- 28
- Injured
- 22
Blaauwkrantz Bridge disaster
1911 railway incident in South Africa
The Blaauwkrantz Bridge disaster occurred on 22 April 1911. A mixed train from Port Alfred travelling to Grahamstown, made up of six goods trucks, three passenger carriages and a guard's van, came to grief when one of the goods trucks derailed on the Blaauwkrantz Bridge over the Blaauwkrantz Pass and, with the three carriages and the guard's van, plunged into the ravine 200 feet below.
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