TRAGEDY IN GALICIA
Spain¡¯s worst rail disasters
The Santiago de Compostela crash is the deadliest the country has seen since 1972
- On January 3, 1944, between 500 and 800 people died when an express train crashed into an engine in Torre del Bierzo in the province of Le¨®n. Due to the censorship that was in place during the Franco dictatorship, the state train operator Renfe reported only 78 dead and 75 injured.
- On July 21, 1972, 77 people were killed and 103 injured in a collision between a regional train travelling from C¨¢diz to Seville in Andalusia and the Madrid-C¨¢diz express train.
- On July 3, 2006, the derailment of a subway train in Valencia resulted in the death of 43 people and injured a further 47.
- Two trains on the Plentzia-Bilbao regional line crashed into each other at Urduliz in the Basque province of Bizkaia. The accident left 33 dead and 200 people injured.
- On September 24, 1980, the Madrid-Valencia train smashed into a bus at a level crossing on the track when the barriers were up in Chirivella in the province of Valencia, leaving 27 people dead and 40 injured.
- A regional train travelling from Martorell in the province Barcelona of crashed into a railcar proceeding from Barcelona city. The collision caused the deaths of 22 people and left a further 87 injured.
- In July 2003, a Talgo passenger train with 86 people on board hit a freight train head on in Chinchilla in the central province of Albacete. The death toll was 22, with 87 people injured.
- On March 31, 1997, the Intercity ¡°Miguel de Unamuno¡± train linking Barcelona to Hendaye on the border between France and Spain derailed at Uharte-Arakil in the province of Navarre, causing the deaths of 18 people. A further 100 people were injured.
- Only July 15, 1980 the Talgo train linking Barcelona and Madrid smashed into a freight train that was stopped just before the station of Torralba del Moral in the northern province of Soria. Nineteen people died and 38 were injured.
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