are killed, including two sons of Hubert Pierlot, the Prime Minister in Exile of Belgium; seven more are injured. May(?) – Japanese Taiwan – At Kyujo, freight train from Takao (now Kaohsiung) crashes head-on into a passenger train from Keelung; 200 people are killed or injured. May 3 – United States – A freight train, pulled by Southern Pacific class AC-8 locomotive no. 4199, travelling at on the Southern Pacific's Coast Division suffers a catastrophic boiler explosion at Cooper, California. Four people are killed. July 2 – United Kingdom – An express train and a freight train collide at , Buckinghamshire. Five people are killed and 25 are injured. July 20 – Italy – On a viaduct near Como, an object protruding from a freight train smashes into a passenger train carrying workers to Germany; 30 are killed. July 24 - Canada - A Great Northern Railway passenger train led by H-5 4-6-2 No. 1351 and a Canadian National Railway freight consist led by 2-8-2 No. 3254 encountered each other and collided head on near New Westminster, BC, 12 miles east of Vancouver. Four crewmen from the two trains were killed, with 23 passengers being hospitalised. No. 1351 was deemed damaged beyond repair, and subsequently scrapped. No. 3254 was repaired and brought back to service, and is still preserved today at Steamtown National Historic Site. August 9 – Canada – a Canadian National Railways passenger train collides with a stationary engine at the Turcot Yards, Montreal, Quebec; the fireman is killed and the engineer is severely injured in the resulting boiler explosion. 53 of the passengers are injured. September 16 – Japan – Aboshi Station: an express from Tokyo runs past signals and crashes into a stationary train for Kyoto; 63 people are killed and 67 injured, 19 seriously, and the driver of the express is detained by police. November 2 – France – At Paris Austerlitz station, an express from Orléans crashes into an empty train, killing 21 and injuring 7. November – United States – A Southern Pacific freight train suffers a break-in-two and the automatic emergency brake application stops the locomotive, a Southern Pacific class AC-8 cab-forward no. 4193 in Hasson Tunnel. The crew are asphyxiated, while the locomotive cooks on low flame for 36 hours before the oil-fuel shut-off valve between the locomotive and its tender can be reached. December 3 – Canada – A Canadian