May 17 – British India – In what is now Bangladesh, on the metre-gauge Akhaura–Laksam–Chittagong line of the Bengal and Assam Railway, an express train derails between Kamalasagar and Nayanpur and cars roll down an embankment, killing 36 people and injuring 58. May 30 – United States – The engineer and fireman of the Frisco railroad's Kansas City-Florida Special are killed in a derailment near Mansfield, Missouri. Two passenger cars leave the rails but remain upright and none of the passengers sustain injury. June 3 – United States – Two crew members of a northbound train and one of a southbound train are killed when two Monon Railroad freight trains collide head-on twelve miles (19 km) north of Lafayette, Indiana after the southbound train fails to take the Ash Grove siding. June 15 – Argentina – A passenger train collides with a cow in La Cruz, Corrientes, killing 18 and injuring 48. July 21 – United Kingdom – An express passenger train is derailed at Grendon, Buckinghamshire due to defective track. Five people are killed and 64 are injured. July 23 – China – A passenger train en route from Shanghai to Tientsin (now Tianjin) hits a mine planted by Communist guerillas; 27 people are killed and 12 seriously injured. July 26 – Switzerland – Two trains collide between Biberbrugg and Einsiedeln. Ten people are killed and 73 are injured. August 9 – United Kingdom – A London and North Eastern Railway passenger train runs into the rear of another at , Yorkshire due to a signalman's error. Twenty-one people are killed and 188 are injured. August 23 – Soviet-occupied zone of Germany – Train passengers bring on board a leaking can of gasoline and a package of nitrate film, and a cigarette starts a fire. The train is stopped at Velten, near Berlin, but as people hurry toward the only exit, a man stumbles, blocking the way. There are 24 people killed and 35 injured. September 1 – Canada – Dugald rail accident: A Canadian National Railway excursion train fails to take the siding and collides with the No. 4 Transcontinental that was standing on the main line. 31 people were killed, most by fire breaking out in two gas-lit wooden cars on the excursion train. October 24 – United Kingdom – South Croydon rail crash: Signalman improperly uses release key to free signals. Two commuter trains collide in