Pacific Railway train approaching Ottawa suddenly leaves the tracks, resulting in the death of the locomotive engineer and injuring 29 others. December 21 – Italy – An accident to the funicular on Mount Vesuvius kills 25 people. December 27 – Germany – In a snowstorm, a Berlin-Warsaw express crashes into a stationary freight train at Leichholz station (now Drzewce, Poland) between Frankfurt an der Oder and Posen (now Poznań, Poland). There are 44 deaths, although eye-witness accounts report higher numbers. December 28 – German-occupied France – On the line between Armentières and Berguettes (now Isbergues), two passenger trains collide head-on between Laventie and La Gorgue. One source says 56 people are killed and 40 injured; another says from 67 to perhaps over 100 dead. December 30 – United Kingdom – Eccles rail crash; A westbound passenger train passes signals at danger in fog in the wartime blackout and collides with an eastbound train at 30 mph; 23 killed. 1942 May 16 – British India – In what is now Pakistan, Hurs sabotage the track to derail the Punjab Mail train to Lahore between Tando Adam Khan and nearby Odero Lal, derailing the locomotive and 6 cars. The dacoits then attack the passengers and steal their valuables. Altogether 22 people are killed, including a minister of the Sindh government, and 26 injured. September 4 – United Kingdom – A London Midland and Scottish Railway freight train is derailed by trap points at , Yorkshire because the driver misses signals under blackout conditions. Both locomotive crew are injured. October 17 – China – Some 500 Japanese are killed or injured when a troop train hits a Chinese mine near Shanhsiatu in northern Kiangsi (now Jiangxi) province. November 4 – United Kingdom – a Southern Railway electric multiple unit runs into the rear of another at , Surrey due to a signalman's error. Two people are killed. November 22 – United States – Three persons were killed and many others injured in a wreck of the Royal Palm (train) passenger train on a flaming trestle near Valdosta. About 20 persons were hospitalized. The Southbound train's two engines passed over the trestle spanning a small stream, but two mail cars and the first six-passenger coaches were derailed. Most of them overturned down a 12-foot (4 m) embankment. One fell into the one-foot-deep (30 cm) Withlacoochee river. The last two of the ten coaches remained