Torre del Bierzo rail disaster: Near Torre del Bierzo on the line between León and A Coruña, a passenger and mail train runs away following a brake failure and collides in a tunnel with short train being shunted; this destroys the signal cables so that an oncoming coal train cannot be warned and it collides with the wreckage, which burns. Estimates of the death toll range from the official 78 to probably exaggerated figures of over 500. January 11 – Spain – An accident near Arévalo kills 37 people. January 16 – United Kingdom – Ilford rail crash: An express passenger train from Norwich to London Liverpool Street station passes a signal set at danger, and runs into the back of an express passenger train from Yarmouth. 9 killed. January 20 – Germany – At Porta Westfalica station, in the Weser gorge on the line between Hanover and Osnabrück, an express crashes into a stationary train; 53 are killed and 62 injured. March 3 – Italy – Balvano train disaster: 530 people riding a freight train die of carbon monoxide poisoning when the locomotive stalls in a tunnel. It is still Italy's deadliest railway disaster. June 2 – United Kingdom – Soham rail disaster: While approaching Soham station, the leading wagon of a 51-wagon train carrying American ammunition to a base in Ipswich catches fire; the burning wagon is decoupled from the rest of the train, but before the train can clear the station platform, the bombs loaded in the wagon explode, killing the driver and fireman and nearly destroying the station. July 6 – United States – At High Cliff, 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Jellico, Tennessee, a troop train carrying new recruits on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, traverses a series of reverse curves at when the speed limit is 35 mph and the track is somewhat defective. The locomotive and 4 leading cars derail and fall into a small river called the Clear Fork; 35 people are killed and about 100 or more injured. July – United Kingdom – A London and North Eastern Railway passenger train is derailed by faulty points at , Yorkshire. August 4 – United States – Stockton train wreck: The last five cars of a 14-car Atlantic Coast Line Railroad train derail at Stockton, Georgia due to a broken rail; 47 killed, mostly black workers returning home to Alabama for the