What the records say
- When
- 28 Aug 1979
- Kind
- Rail accident
- Coordinates
- 51.83° N, 5.83° E
- Description
- 1979 Netherlands train collision
- Deaths
- 8
- Injured
- 36
Nijmegen train collision
1979 Netherlands train collision
The Nijmegen train disaster was a rail crash in the Netherlands in which two passenger trains—of which one did not contain passengers—collided head-on. The collision happened on 28 August 1979 between Wijchen and Nijmegen, near the Kolpingbuurt neighbourhood in Nijmegen on the railway line Tilburg to Nijmegen. Eight people died in the disaster, seven passengers and the driver of train 4365.
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