Versailles rail accident

When

8 May 1842

Kind

Rail accident

Coordinates

48.82° N, 2.23° E

Description

train wreck

Deaths

52

Injured

150

1842 train wreck in France

On 8 May 1842, a train crashed in the cutting between Meudon and Bellevue stations on the railway between Versailles and Paris, France. The train was travelling to Paris when it derailed after the leading locomotive broke an axle, and the carriages behind piled into it and caught fire.

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• Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Versailles rail accident: A train traveling between Versailles and Paris, France derails, due to a broken locomotive axle, and catches fire”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Bei Meudon ereignet sich in Frankreich der Eisenbahnunfall von Versailles”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “un accident de chemin de fer sur la ligne Paris - Versailles fait 52 victimes, dont l’explorateur Dumont d’Urville et sa famille”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page