Remembering the day, pensioner Sylvia describes the moment her husband who was travelling on one of the trains walked through the door, having survived the horrific accident. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 2023, JW Player, All Rights Reserved It was a major train wreck that shook Naperville's small town of 5,000 people. Crossing anywhere else is illegal. Jennifer Kraus / Brainerd Dispatch. CHICAGO On this date Oct. 30 50 years ago, 45 people died and more than 300 were injured in what would become the deadliest train crash in Illinois history. On Tuesday evening, a passenger train with more than 350 people on board collided head-on with a freight train near the city of Larissa, some 220 miles north of the capital Athens. More than 70 others were trapped inside for hours, while other survivors broke windows and. Illinois Central Gulf Train 416, made up of newly purchased Highliners, overshot the 27th Street station on what is now the Metra Electric Line, and the engineer asked and received permission from the train's conductor to back . Pakistan has seen a string of deadly train accidents over the past years. That day the Harrow Observer reported the horrific accident and 66 years later, getwestlondon pays tribute to the victims. The station master involved in Greece's worst-ever train disaster was due to appear in court on Saturday after mass protests broke out over the crash that killed at least 57 people. "playbackRateControls": false, If you feel you have received this message in error, please contact the customer support team at 1-833-248-7801. Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou also announced that she was cutting short a visit to Moldova to return to Greece. But that order did not strike the driver as strange as the signalling system had been dysfunctional, Proto Thema reported. At least 36 people were killed in a train crash in northeast Greece and 66 more were injured, the local fire department said. Hours later, rescuers used cranes and heavy machinery to sift through the horrific scene of mangled carriages, smoking steel and strewn bodies near the Vale of Tempe, a river valley about 380 . 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