Disaster involving one or more trains (for train colliding with a pedestrian, animal or other objects, see Q19403959; for two trains, see Q11396408)

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A collapsed bridge and a railway accident with an overturned train. Process print.

RE carriage of milk / W. Owen.

Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) as protector against fires. Engraving by Geoffroy.

A railway employee (?) wheels away the dismembered body of a man killed in a railway accident; he converses with a physician. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.

A railway accident. Lithograph by Paul Van Rijssel (Paul-Ferdinand Gachet), 1879.

The fall of a railway train from a bridge in Hamilton, Ontario. Wood engraving, 1857.

The victim of a railway accident approaching the railway board's directors for compensation for his extensive injuries. Watercolour by C.W.D., 1866.

Failure of sight from railway and other injuries of the spine and head : its nature and treatment, with a physiological and pathological disquisition into the influence of the vaso-motor nerves on the circulation of the blood in the extreme vessels / by Thomas Wharton Jones.

A railroad boy's appeal.

In memory of those killed on the L.&B.R., at Clayton Tunnel, Sunday, Aug. 25th, 1861 : Christiana Manthorpe, Ellen Lower, John Ingledew, Agnes Parker, George Wescott, Edward Charlwood.

Well Hall, Eltham, train crash, 1972: an injured train driver being carried to an ambulance. Photograph by Press Association, 1972.

Railway surgery : a handbook on the management of injuries / by Clinton B. Herrick ; profusely illustrated by numerous original engravings.

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Railroad accidents

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Images referencing Railroad accidents

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Failure of sight from railway and other injuries of the spine and head : its nature and treatment, with a physiological and pathological disquisition into the influence of the vaso-motor nerves on the circulation of the blood in the extreme vessels / by Thomas Wharton Jones.

A railroad boy's appeal.

In memory of those killed on the L.&B.R., at Clayton Tunnel, Sunday, Aug. 25th, 1861 : Christiana Manthorpe, Ellen Lower, John Ingledew, Agnes Parker, George Wescott, Edward Charlwood.

Well Hall, Eltham, train crash, 1972: an injured train driver being carried to an ambulance. Photograph by Press Association, 1972.

Railway surgery : a handbook on the management of injuries / by Clinton B. Herrick ; profusely illustrated by numerous original engravings.

Railroad accidents

Images from the collections

Images referencing Railroad accidents

Works from the collections

Failure of sight from railway and other injuries of the spine and head : its nature and treatment, with a physiological and pathological disquisition into the influence of the vaso-motor nerves on the circulation of the blood in the extreme vessels / by Thomas Wharton Jones.

A railroad boy's appeal.

In memory of those killed on the L.&B.R., at Clayton Tunnel, Sunday, Aug. 25th, 1861 : Christiana Manthorpe, Ellen Lower, John Ingledew, Agnes Parker, George Wescott, Edward Charlwood.

Well Hall, Eltham, train crash, 1972: an injured train driver being carried to an ambulance. Photograph by Press Association, 1972.

Railway surgery : a handbook on the management of injuries / by Clinton B. Herrick ; profusely illustrated by numerous original engravings.

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