The Meråker train disaster occurred on 23 January 1941 at

Meråker Station Meråker Station () is a railway station on the Meråker Line in the village of Midtbygda in Meråker Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The station was opened on 17 October 1881 as Meraker, and received the current name on 1 June 1919. ...

on the

Meråker Line The Meråker Line ( �meːroːkərˌbɑːnən is a railway line which runs through the district and valley of Stjørdalen in Trøndelag county, Norway. The line branches off from the Nordland Line at Hell Station and runs eastwards to the No ...

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...

. A coke and coal train from Sweden lost its braking between the national border and

Kopperå Station Kopperå Station () is a railway station on the Meråker Line in the village of Kopperå in Meråker Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The station was opened on 1 April 1899 as Kopperaasen. It was renamed Kopperåen in April 1924. It re ...

. The six back cars plus the caboose

derail A derail or derailer is a device used to prevent fouling (blocking or compromising) of a rail track (or collision with anything present on the track, such as a person, or a train) by unauthorized movements of trains or unattended rolling stock ...

ed just west of Kopperå, while the locomotive and 17 other cars continued their wild flight. The train derailed at Meråker Station, killing both the engineer and the stoker.

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