Nijmegen train collision

{{Short description|1979 Netherlands train collision}} {{Infobox public transit accident | name = Nijmegen train disaster  | image = File:Treinongeluk op de spoorlijn Nijmegen-Den-Bosch Opname van de ravage 30 aug.1979 F53943.jpeg | image_size = | image_alt = | caption = The aftermath of the accident.  | image_map = | image_map_alt = | image_map_caption = | pushpin_map = Netherlands | alternative_map = | pushpin_map_alt = | pushpin_map_caption = | mapframe = | qid = | mapframe_zoom = | coordinates = {{coord|51.8320|N|5.8378|E|type:event|display=inline}}  | date = 28 August 1979 | time = | location = | location_dir = | location_city = | location_dist_km = | location_dist_mi = | country = Netherlands | line = Tilburg–Nijmegen railway | operator = Nederlandse Spoorwegen | owner = | service = | type = Head-on collision | cause =  | bus = | trains = 2 | vehicles = | passengers = | crew = | pedestrians = | deaths = 8 | injuries = 36 | damage = | property =  | route_map = | route_map_state = | route_map_name =  | footnotes = }} 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,<ref name="leeuwacht">{{cite news | url=http://www.archiefleeuwardercourant.nl/vw/article.do?id=LC-19790904-3013&vw=org&lm=treinramp%2Cnijmeg | title=Achtste slachtoffer treinramp Nijmegen | work=Leeuwarder Courant | date=September 4, 1979 | accessdate=March 3, 2012|language=nl}}</ref> seven passengers and the driver of train 4365. Thirty-six people were injured, including the conductor and driver of train 74363.

==Trains== Two trains were involved in the crash. The first was an empty train 74363 destined for Nijmegen railway station. This train consisted of a multiple unit of the ''Mat '64 Plan V 936'' type. The second was train 4365 consisting of two two-carriage multiple units of the ''Mat '46'' type, units 256 and 244. Train 74363 traveled at about 5 km/h, the passenger train 4365 at about 90 km/h.

==See also== {{Portal|Railways}} * List of rail accidents (1970–1979)

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Further reading== * {{in lang|nl}} Spoorwegongevallen in Nederland, 1839-1993; writer: R.T. Jongerius, Published by: Schuyt & Co, 1993. Part 22 in the book range of the ''Nederlandse Vereniging van Belangstellenden in het Spoor- en tramwegwezen'' (NVBS), {{ISBN|90-6097-341-0}}.

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