Deadliest railway accident in Italian history, in 1944
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Balvano train disaster
Some of the corpses gathered in the Balvano railway station
Details
Date
3 March 1944 after 00:50
Location
Balvano, Basilicata
Country
Kingdom of Italy
Line
Battipaglia–Metaponto railway
Operator
Ferrovie dello Stato
Incident type
Carbon monoxide poisoning
Cause
excessive weight; bad quality coal; lack of natural ventilation in the tunnel
Statistics
Trains
1
Deaths
517 (official figure by Italian government)
Injured
90 poisoned
The Balvano train disaster was the deadliest railway accident in Italian history and one of the worst railway disasters ever.[1][2] It occurred on the night between 2–3 March 1944 in Balvano, Basilicata. Over 500 people in a steam-hauled, coal-burning freight train (mostly stowaways) died of carbon monoxide poisoning during a protracted stall in a tunnel.[3]
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^Nick Squires (2 March 2017). "'Titanic of train disasters': Italy finally commemorates hushed-up wartime tragedy that killed more than 600 people". Telegraph. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
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