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The Berajondo train crash was a rail accident that took place outside of Berajondo, Queensland, Australia on November 15 2004..

The site of the accident was approximately 419km from Roma Street station in Brisbane, just north of Berajondo on the Bundaberg to Gladstone line.

At 11:55pm when the northbound high speed diesel tilt train City of Townsville from Brisbane bound for Cairns, carrying 150 passengers and seven crew, failed to slow down for a very sharp 60 km/h curve, derailing the train. The train was estimated as traveling 112 km/h at the time of the accident, but investigators are still undecided on the role a broken wheel played in the event.

Seven of the train's passenger cars left the tracks. While there were no fatalities, some passengers suffered severe injury.

See also

Too fast around sharp curve

• Camp Mountain train disaster, 1947 - 16 killed - too fast (40 mph) around 20 mph curve
• Waterfall train disaster, 2003 - 7 killed - too fast around sharp curve.
• Bruehl train disaster, 2000 - 9 killed - too fast at a turnout in a construction zone at Bruehl station, Germany.
• Amagasaki rail crash - Japan
• Eltham Well Hall rail crash, 6 killed - too fast (65 mph) around 20 mph curve.
• Morpeth rail crash - This accident resembles those at Morpeth in the United Kingdom.
• Salisbury rail crash, 1906 - 28 killed - too fast around sharp curve.
• Sutton Coldfield train disaster, 1955 - 17 killed - too fast around sharp curve.
• Malbone Street Wreck, 1918 in New York - 98 people killed - too fast around sharp curve.

References

• The Courier-Mail. More than 100 hurt in train crash, retrieved December 29 2004.
• The Courier-Mail. Wheel casing eyed in train crash, retrieved December 29 2004.