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The Montparnasse derailment occurred at 16:00 on 22 October 1895 when the Granville – Paris Express overran the buffer stop at its Gare Montparnasse terminus. With the train several minutes late and the driver trying to make up for lost time, it approached the station too fast and the driver's application of the train air brake was ineffective.
The Gare de Lyon rail accident ( French: Accident ferroviaire de la gare de Lyon ), occurred on 27 June 1988, when an SNCF commuter train headed inbound to Paris's Gare de Lyon terminal crashed into a stationary outbound train, killing 56 and injuring 57, resulting in the third deadliest rail disaster in peacetime France. [1] [2] [3]
Brétigny-sur-Orge, Île-de-France. 7. 32. A train crash occurred in the commune of Brétigny-sur-Orge in the southern suburbs of Paris, when a passenger train carrying 385 people derailed and hit the station platform. The crash was cited as the most serious in France since the 1988 Gare de Lyon accident in which 56 people were killed.
It was founded on 16 May 1956 [1] by King Mohammed V. It works alongside the Gendarmerie Royale and the Forces Auxiliaires . In 2007, the Sûreté Nationale had approximately 46,000 personnel. A decade later, in 2017, the number of personnel had increased to 70,000. As of 2004, the Sûreté Nationale operated the following specialist divisions ...
2015 Thalys train attack. / 50.46583°N 2.97389°E / 50.46583; 2.97389. On 21 August 2015, a man opened fire on a Thalys train on its way from Amsterdam to Paris. [6] [7] [8] Four people were injured, including the assailant. [9] French, American and British passengers confronted the attacker and subdued him.
Gare Montparnasse. Gare Montparnasse ( French pronunciation: [ɡaʁ mɔ̃paʁnas]; Montparnasse station), officially Paris Montparnasse, one of the seven large Paris railway termini, is located in the 14th and 15th arrondissements . The station opened in 1840, was rebuilt in 1852 and relocated in 1969 to a new station just south of the original ...
The Santiago de Compostela derailment occurred on 24 July 2013, when an Alvia high-speed train traveling from Madrid to Ferrol, in the north-west of Spain, derailed at high speed on a bend about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) outside of the railway station at Santiago de Compostela. Of the 178 people injured, the provisional number of deaths in hospital ...
Réseau Express Régional. The Réseau Express Régional ( French pronunciation: [ʁezo ɛkspʁɛs ʁeʒjɔnal]; English: Regional Express Network ), commonly abbreviated RER ( pronounced [ɛʁ.ə.ɛʁ] ), is a hybrid commuter rail and rapid transit system serving Paris and its suburbs. It acts as a combined city-center underground rail system ...