– On the Vernaison bridge, located not in Vernaison but over the Isère at Romans-sur-Isère, with one track still out of service due to wartime damage, a mixed train is signaled onto the single remaining track and collides head-on with a Micheline en route from Grenoble to Valence, and there is a fire; 30 people are killed and 106 injured. September 29 – United States – The fireman on the AT&SF California Limited receives steam burn injuries when the locomotive and two baggage cars pile up against a freight locomotive and two or three cars which derail at Turner, Missouri, before the express can be flagged. September 30 – United Kingdom – Bourne End rail crash: Train fails to slow down for temporary diversion to slow lines and derails, 43 killed. November 15 – Spain – A mail and a freight train collide at Fuensanta, near Huércal-Overa in Almería province, killing 20 people. 1946 January 1 – United Kingdom – Lichfield rail crash: Due to frozen points, a goods train is routed onto the platform loop at and rear-ends a stationary passenger train; 20 killed. January 5 – United Kingdom – Browney rail crash, a London and North Eastern Railway freight train becomes divided south of Durham. The train is stopped at Browney but the second part of the train crashes into it. The wreckage causes a false clear signal to be given, and an express passenger train travelling in the opposite direction crashes into it. Ten people are killed and eight are seriously injured. February 10 – United Kingdom – A combination of driver's and signalman's errors results in London and North Eastern Railway passenger train being derailed at , Hertfordshire. An express passenger train crashes into it, followed by another minutes later. Two people are killed. March 4 – British India – A freight train collides head-on with the Dehra Dun Express at Baghauli; 60 people are killed, including both drivers, and 48 injured, most of the casualties being in a third-class car. March 20 – Brazil – Aracaju train crash, 185 are killed and 300 injured in Brazil's worst ever train crash when a train derails descending a steep gradient near Aracaju, capital of Sergipe state. April 26 – United States – Naperville train disaster: Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's Advance Flyer, stopped in Naperville station to check the running gear, is rammed by the Burlington's Exposition