Major train collisions in the past
The Uttarbanga-Vananchal Express collision is one of many such train accidents, caused by collision, in the last two decades. Below is the list of major train collisions:
May 28, 2010 – Over 140 killed as the Gyaneshwari Express train, derailed by Maoists, is hit by a passing goods train.
21 October, 2009 – Twenty people killed when locomotive of Goa Express rammed the rearmost carriage of stationary Mewar Express near Mathura, Uttar Pradesh.
August 2, 1999 - Two hundred and sixty eight killed and 359 injured in a collision involving Awadh-Assam Express and Brahmaputra Mail at Gaisal in North Frontier Railway's Katihar division.
November 26, 1998 - Over 212 killed when Jammu Tawi-Sealdah Express rammed into three derailed bogies of Amritsar-bound Frontier Golden Temple Mail at Khanna.
18 April 1996 - Sixty killed as Gorakhpur-Gonda passenger train rams into a stationary goods train at Domingarh near Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh.
August 20, 1995 - Three hundred and fifty eight killed as Delhi-bound Purushottam Express rams into the stationary Kalindi Express near Firozabad in Uttar Pradesh.
September 21, 1993 - Seventy-one killed as Kota-Bina passenger train collides with a goods train near Chhabra in Rajasthan.
25 June 1990 - Sixty killed when a goods train collided with a passenger train at Mangra in Daltongunj in Bihar.
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