Fiumarella Rail Disaster
The Fiumarella rail disaster was one of the most serious incidents in the History of railways in Italy, history of the Italian railways. It occurred at about 7.45 am on 23 December 1961, at the Fiumarella viaduct, near Catanzaro, in the Regions of Italy, region of Calabria, southern Italy. History The train involved in the disaster was composed of Società Italiana Ernesto Breda, Breda M2.123 class diesel railcar and Breda trailer RA 1006. The accident occurred as the train was passing over the curved Fiumarella viaduct, about an hour after departing from Soveria Mannelli for Catanzaro at 6:43 am. The trailer derailed from the track, due to the rupture of the tram type Railway coupling, draw hook, and plunged into the river below after a falling about . Inside the trailer there were 99 passengers, many of them students. Seventy-one of them lost their lives on impact, and 28 others were injured to varying degrees. This resulted as the worst rail disaster in peacetime Italy. Conseq ...
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