Major Train Accidents in last 10 Years

This is a summary of major accidents that involved loss of lives during the UPA regime. This blog is just for information sake and not meant to draw any conclusions. Source of information for this blog has come from various web sites.

List of Rail Ministers (with tenure):

Name	Start Date	End Date
Lalu Prasad Yadav	23-May-04	25-May-09
Mamata Banerjee	26-May-09	19-May-11
Dinesh Trivedi	12-Jul-11	14-Mar-12
Mukul Roy	20-Mar-12	21-Sep-12
C. P. Joshi	22-Sep-12	28-Oct-12
Pawan Kumar Bansal	28-Oct-12	10-May-13
C. P. Joshi	11-May-13	16-Jun-13
Mallikarjun Kharge	17-Jun-13	Incumbent

List of Accidents: This is not an exhaustive list.

  

No	Date	Details	No of Dead	No of Injured
1	16-Jun- 04	Matsyagandha express from Mangalore to Mumbai derails	14	Not Known
2	14-Dec-04	Jammu Tavi Exp and Jalandhar-Amritsar passenger collide head on	36	50
3	29-Oct-05	Repalle Secunderabad delta passenger derailed and some bogies fall in river	100	Not Known
4	26-Nov-05	Mandovi express coaches were crushed in a tunnel near Ratnagiri after a rockfall.	100+	500
5	11-Jul-06	Series of blasts in Mumbail local trains	200+	Not Known
6	23-Oct-06	Bogies of the Mysore- Bangalore Push-Pull (Passenger) derails	4	38
7	9-Nov-06	West Bengal rail accident	40	15
8	20-Nov-06	Explosion on train in West Bengal travelling between New Jalpaiguri and Haldibari	7	53
9	1-Dec-06	Bridge collapse over passing train in Bhagalpur	35	17
10	29-Apr-09	EMU of Southern railways running from Chennai Central rammed into a tanker on opposite side	7	Not Known
11	21-Oct-09	Locomotive of Goa Express rammed the rearmost carriage of stationary Mewar Express	21	26
12	14-Nov-09	The Delhi-bound Mandore Express derailed in Bassi town near Jaipur	0	60
13	2-Jan-10	·         Lichchavi Express entering the station rammed into the stationery Magadh Express train stopped there. ·         Gorakhdham Express and Prayagraj Express collided near the Panki railway station in Kanpur.	5	50
14	16- Jan-10	The Kalindi Express and Shram Shakti Express collided in thick fog in UP	3	12
15	17-Jan-10	Lucknow–Sultanpur Harihar Nath Express hit the car at Barha railway crossing under	2	4
16	28-may-10	Gyaneshwari Express train derailment, a suspected attack by Communist Party of India (Maoist)	170
17	4-Jun-10	Mini bus was hit by the Coimbatore–Mettupalayam special train	5
18	18-Jun-10	Amaravati Express from Vasco-da Gama to Howrah derailed near Koppal	0	27
19	19-Jul-10	Uttar Banga Express collided with the Vananchal Express.	63	165
20	17-Aug-10	train accident which occurred on Faizabad-Lucknow rail-section at Goryamau railway station of Barabanki district	4
21	20- Sep-10	Speeding freight train going towards Indore, Madhya Pradesh collided with the Indore - Gwalior Intercity Express	33	160
22	24-Sep-10	engine and a bogie of the Kasganj-Lucknow Rohilkhand Express derailed near Kasganj railway station	0	12
23	7-Jul-11	A Mathura Chhapra Express train rams into a bus carrying wedding guests	38	30
24	10-Jul-11	·         Kalka Mail derails near Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh ·         Engine along with 4 coaches of Guwahati Puri Express derails between Rangiya and Ghagrapar	70	343+
25	31-Jul-11	engine and some coaches of the Guwahati Bangalore Express derail and are hit by another train in Malda district, West Bengal	3	200
26	13-Sep-11	Chennai suburban MEMU train rammed into a stationary Arakonam-Katpadi passenger train	10	Unknown
27	22-Nov-11	Howrah-Dehradun express train caught fire	7	Unknown
28	11-Jan-11	collision between the Delhi-bound Brahmaputra Mail and a stationary goods train	5	9
29	20-Mar-2	Train collided with an overcrowded taxi minivan at an unmanned railroad crossing in northern Uttar Pradesh state	15
30	22-May-12	Hubli-Bangalore, Hampi Express collided with a goods train near Penukonda	14	35
31	31-May-12	Howrah-Dehradun-Doon Express,derailed near Jaunpur	7	15
32	19-Jul-11	collision between a local train and Vidarbha Express near Khardi	1	13
33	30-Jul-12	One of the coaches of the Chennai-bound Tamil Nadu Express (New Delhi - Chennai) caught fire	47	25
34	19-Aug-13	Saharsa-Patna Rajya Rani SF Express ran over people at the Dhamara station	35	Unknown
35	2-Nov-13	Alapuzha-Dhanbad express runs over people	10	Unknown
36	15-Nov-13	Nizamuddin Ernakulam Mangala Lakshadweep Superfast Express were derailed	4	12+
37	28-Dec-13	AC coach of the 16594 Bangalore City-Hazur Sahib Nanded express caught fire	26	12
38	3-Apr-14	Chopan-katni Pessanger and Varanasi-ShaktiNagar intercity express collide	2	6
39	16-Apr-14	BG Express derailed in Assam	0	50+
40	04-May-14	Diva-Sawantwadi passenger train derails near Mumbai	18	60
		Total	861+	1594+

The list above is not an exhaustive list. Statistics website http://knoema.com/ provides some stats based on data provided by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation of India from 2004 to 2010. According to this website, the total number of deaths involving trains is as below:

 

 This data can be found here.