What the records say
- When
- 6 Feb 1951
- Kind
- Rail accident
- Coordinates
- 40.55° N, 74.28° W
- Description
- 1951 train derailment in New Jersey, United States
- Deaths
- 85
- Injured
- 500
Woodbridge train derailment
1951 disaster in New Jersey, U.S.
On February 6, 1951, a Pennsylvania Railroad train derailed on a temporary wooden trestle in Woodbridge, New Jersey, United States, killing 85 passengers. It remains New Jersey's deadliest train wreck, the deadliest U.S. derailment since 1918 and the deadliest peacetime rail disaster in U.S. history.
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