Ma– Chile – Gualliguaica rail accident: A five-car passenger train runs away on a downslope from Vicuña to Cresta de Gualliguaica and derails, plunging into a ravine 12 killed. One person is killed and ten are injured. Febru– United Kingdom – A passenger train formed of five 2HAP electric multiple units overruns the buffers at Sheerness-on-Sea, Kent and demolishes the station building. #RAILROAD STORY LEVEL 10 DRIVER#
Febru– Yugoslavia – In a tunnel near Vranduk (now in Bosnia and Herzegovina), the driver stops a passenger train when its diesel-electric locomotive catches fire but the fire spreads to the passenger cars and many people are unable to escape from the smoke. Shortly after the TEE has derailed, a railbus hits the wreckage, coming from the opposite direction. The maximum speed in the curve is 80 km/h, however the train passes the curve at 130 km/h because of frozen water in the air brake. Febru– West Germany – Aitrang: The TEE 56 Bavaria, a SBB RAm TEE DMU, traveling from Munich to Zürich, derails while passing a curve shortly after Aitrang station. Six people are killed and seventeen are injured. Janu– Switzerland – Two commuter trains collide between Feldmeilen and Herrliberg. Decem– Iran – Two trains collide at Ardakan due to a signalman's error a government source indicates 15 people killed, but journalists reported at least 70, with 130 injured. Over 40 years later, this chemical spill was briefly thought to have caused an illness outbreak in the town. 
There are no injuries or fatalities, but a toxic chemical spill results in the scene becoming a United States Environmental Protection Agency Superfund site in 1999.
Decem– United States – 1970 Lehigh Valley Railroad derailment: Twenty-five cars of a 114-car Lehigh Valley Railroad freight train derail in Le Roy, New York. ( IST) at the Perambur station, Chennai, killing 16 and injuring 108. Octo– India – A Mangalore Mail crashes into a stationary Cochin Mail at 8:10 p.m. Aug– Spain – A train from coastal resorts to Bilbao collides with a freight train at Plentzia 33 people are killed, about 200 injured, and two stationmasters arrested. J– United Kingdom – A 4BEP electric multiple unit collides with a lorry on a level crossing at Chartham, Kent. No lives were lost, although over 60 firefighters and civilians were injured. A propane tank car ruptured and explosions caused fires that destroyed the city center, which included numerous houses and businesses. JUnited States - A Toledo, Peoria and Western Railway train derails in downtown Crescent City, Illinois. The South East Main Line is blocked for three days. J– United Kingdom – A freight train is derailed at Hildenborough, Kent. The cause of the accident was irregular practices by a signalman. Two people are killed and thirteen are injured. – United Kingdom – Audenshaw Junction rail accident: A Class 506 electric multiple unit derails at Audenshaw Junction, Cheshire due to a set of points moving under it. The cause of the accident was the breakage of an overheated axle on a car loaded with 83 tons (75 t) of steel, which the weight of dragged the following 24 cars off with it. 
25 of the 86 cars on the train derailed, demolishing Branford Station (a passenger shed at the time), and tore up a half mile (800 m) of track.
Ma– United States – Branford, Connecticut: A Penn Central freight train derails on the Shore Line Division (now the Northeast Corridor) in Branford center. About 150 are killed reportedly, 52 of the injured are killed in a truck crash on the way to hospital. Febru– Nigeria – A train crowded with Eid al-Kabir pilgrims derails at Langalanga about 27 km southeast of Gusau and several cars fall down an embankment. 
142 people are killed, 368 injured (though some sources state 236 killed).
Febru– Argentina – Benavídez rail disaster: A Tucumán– Buenos Aires express train collides with a standing local train south of Benavídez railroad station 29 km (18 miles) north of Buenos Aires.
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