What the records say
- When
- 22 Feb 1975
- Kind
- Rail accident
- Coordinates
- 61.32° N, 10.32° E
- Description
- railway accident
- Deaths
- 27
- Injured
- 25
- Cause
- human error, signal passed at danger
Tretten train disaster
1975 railway accident in Norway
The Tretten train disaster occurred on 22 February 1975 when a northbound train from Oslo and a southbound express train from Trondheim, both loaded with vacationing skiers, collided head-on 1 km (0.6 mi) north of Tretten station. With 27 killed, including seven children under 16, and 25 injured, it was the worst train crash in Norwegian peacetime history.
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