on the tracks. There was no official explanation of the fire which was eating away at the short wooden trestle. December 27 – Canada – In bad weather at Almonte, Ontario, on the Canadian Pacific Railway, a passenger train en route from Chalk River to Ottawa stops with its rear outside the station and no one goes back to protect it. As the signal is cleared for the train to leave, the engineer of the next train, a special troop train, mistakes it for his own signal and crashes into the first train. There are 36 people killed and 200 injured. 1943 January 4 – Germany – An express runs into the back of a stationary train between Hanover and Wunstorf, killing 20 people and seriously injuring another 20. January 22 – Canada – The locomotive engineer and the fireman of a Canadian Pacific Railway passenger train are killed at Tapley, Ontario when their engine leaves the tracks pulling the baggage car and a passenger coach with it. They are the only casualties. The passengers are shaken up but not seriously injured. April 29 – Canada – Seventeen passengers are slightly injured when a Canadian Pacific Railway passenger train leaves the rails approximately 11 km (seven miles) west of Chapleau, Ontario. The suspected cause is a broken rail. June 3 – British India – Near Akola on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, a mail train from Bombay to Calcutta (now Mumbai and Kolkata) collides at full speed with a goods train; 50 are killed and 100 injured. June 4 – New Zealand – Hyde railway disaster: Train derails taking a curved cutting at over twice the rated speed. 21 killed, 47 injured. Engineman found to have been drunk on duty; served 3 years for manslaughter. July 6 – Turkey – In Istanbul, the funicular cable on the Tünel snaps. One train is braked to a stop, but the other train runs away and one car smashes out of the lower station and into the street; at least one person is killed and 20 are taken to hospital. Some accounts indicate as many as 18 dead and 44 injured, with both trains running away. August 30 – United States – The Lackawanna Limited wreck: The Lackawanna Limited, flagship passenger train of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, sideswipes a local freight whose engineer had thought there was time to briefly pull