Tirhut Railway, the Lucknow Express is derailed between Dighwara and Barra Gopal, killing 27 and injuring 70. September 26 - United States - Near Victorville, California, a Union Pacific train, the "Transcon Limited", carrying U.S. military personnel returning from World War II service, derailed and crashed killing seven and injuring another 75. September 28 – Poland – At 5:40 an express train running from Wrocław hits a wrongly placed passenger train standing at Łódź Kaliska station. Number of casualties varies between 21 or 23. 42 to 150 people were injured. October 4 – British India – At Ongole on the Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway, a goods train collides with the Madras-to-Calcutta (now Chennai and Kolkata) mail, killing 36 and injuring 81. November 12 – France – A freight train runs past two danger signals and collides with a stationary local passenger train at Revigny-sur-Ornain, killing 31 people, almost half of them schoolchildren. December 13 – United States – near Coulter, Ohio: The Pennsylvania Railroad's Golden Triangle sleeper train derails in darkness when it strikes the wreckage of 2 freight trains which had rear-ended half an hour earlier on an adjacent track. 19 killed, 139 injured. Most of the dead are soldiers on furlough from Fort Dix, New Jersey, seated in two day coaches at the front of the train. 1946 – United States – MP 85.5 (Winona), C&G CAGY locomotive #506 a 2-8-2 built as Fort Smith & Western #25, a converted Camelback locomotive, picked a switch and struck a line of tank cars waiting in a siding; killing the engineer of the train and severely injuring the fireman. The exact cause is unknown, but believed to have been caused by a previous crew not closing a switch fully. 1947 January 2 – United Kingdom – A London and North Eastern Railway express passenger train overruns signals and crashes into the rear of another at , Essex. Two people are killed and 45 are hospitalised. January 11 -– United States – a passenger train on the Southern Railway (U.S.) derailed at Burke, Virginia in Fairfax County, Virginia resulting in the death of 1 bystander and the injury of 38 passengers and 8 dining-car employees January 21 – United Kingdom – a Southern Railway electric multiple unit is run into by an empty passenger train at , London. February 18 – United States – Blair County, Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania Railroad's