"Red Arrow" from Pittsburgh to New York derailed at Bennington Curve west of Horseshoe Curve at 3:22 am local time. The train was going at excessive speed. Two of the PRR K4s engines slid down the mountain, along with several coaches. Of the 155 passengers on board, 24 died and 104 were injured (including crew). Ten of 15 cars derailed. February 25 – Japan – Hachikō Line derailment: A Japanese Government Railways passenger train derails on a sharp curve on the Hachikō Line between Komagawa and Higashi-Hannō stations due to excessive speed, causing four cars to roll off the track and into a field, killing 184 and injuring 495 in the worst rail accident in Japan. April 3 – United States – Downers Grove train wreck: The Twin Cities Zephyr, traveling at about through the Downers Grove depot, strikes a heavy caterpillar tractor which had fallen from a freight train only seconds earlier. At least 3 die and more than 30 are injured. April 9 – United States – Raton, New Mexico – Eastbound Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Train No. 18, Super Chief, derails southwest of Raton, New Mexico, with two cars near the middle of the 13-car consist overturning. At least 26 suffer injuries. The three-unit diesel power set breaks away from the cars with the lead unit's nose coming to rest on a trestle over a dry river bed, and one diesel overturns. Only the last two cars remain on the rails, with the others jackknifed across the roadbed. Railroad officials say that there were 149 aboard the train. April 12 – United Kingdom – A passenger train is derailed near Keighley, Yorkshire when a bridge collapses under it due to storm damage. May 1 – United States – Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, USA: Two huge inch-thick (25.4 mm) steel plates on a Pennsylvania Railroad freight train strike and cut open the side of the first coach of the 15-car New York to St. Louis American, killing at least four passengers and injuring 40 others in a 1:47 a.m. EST accident five miles (8 km) west of the town. The steel plates are then jolted onto another track of the four-track mainline, derailing a third train, a freight. May 5 – Australia – Camp Mountain rail accident: A picnic train derails after taking a sharp curve too fast on the Dayboro line to the north-west of Brisbane. 16 killed.